How long do scholarships last?

Unless otherwise noted, all scholarships are renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters. The Zorn Scholarship is available for a maximum of five years.

What does Faulkner cost?

For 2026-2027, traditional block tuition is $12,300 per semester (12-18 hours), residence halls run about $2,100-$2,150 per semester (private-room charges extra), and meal plans run $975-$2,320 per semester. Faulkner does not publish a single full cost-of-attendance total on these pages.

Faulkner· Renewal Rules

Keeping Faulkner’s Merit Aid for Four Years

What the financial-aid office actually requires after freshman year: minimum GPA, credit-hour pace, and the cliffs that quietly downgrade families mid-degree.

Verified Jun 20264 days ago· COWORK

At a glance

Renewable tiers: 9 of 9
One-time tiers: 0
Tiers with published renewal terms: 9
Renewal risk profile: low

Renewal risk profile

Faulkner's published renewal rules cluster around a 3.0 floor with no major-GPA gating, which is survivable for the typical freshman with steady study habits. The risk is non-renewal due to enrollment status (dropping below full-time), not GPA.

Founder's Award: See notes
Trustee's Award: See notes
President's Award: See notes
Dean's Award: See notes
Faulkner Merit Award: See notes
National Merit Finalist/Semi-Finalist Scholarship: See notes
The Zorn Scholarship (Jack Zorn Scholarship): Full-time enrollment
Transfer Scholarship: See notes
Performing Arts Scholarship: See notes

Renewal terms by tier

Founder's Award
$14,000
Entry requirements: 1360 & above SAT · 30 & above ACT
To keep it: Unless otherwise noted, all scholarships are renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters. (Specific continuation criteria for this award are not stated on the page.)
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
Trustee's Award
$12,000
Entry requirements: 1200-1350 SAT · 25-29 ACT
To keep it: Renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
President's Award
$10,000
Entry requirements: 1030-1190 SAT · 20-24 ACT
To keep it: Renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
Dean's Award
$9,000
Entry requirements: 960-1020 SAT · 18-19 ACT
To keep it: Renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
Faulkner Merit Award
$6,000
Entry requirements: 950 & below SAT · 17 & below ACT
To keep it: Renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
National Merit Finalist/Semi-Finalist Scholarship
Full tuition, room, board, and mandatory fees (Finalists); Full tuition (Semi-Finalists)
To keep it: General policy: renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
The Zorn Scholarship (Jack Zorn Scholarship)
Full tuition
Entry requirements: 3.0 in Bible courses (to maintain) GPA
To keep it: Available for a maximum of five years. Recipients must complete the FAFSA each academic year, live on campus, remain enrolled full-time as a traditional undergraduate, maintain a GPA of at least 3.0 in Bible courses, take a minimum of two Bible courses per semester, and complete 64 hours of ministry/service work a semester.
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/zorn/
Transfer Scholarship
$4,000-$8,000
Entry requirements: 2.0 minimum; tiers at 2.0 ($4,000), 2.5 ($5,000), 3.0 ($6,000), 3.4 ($7,000), 3.8 ($8,000) GPA
To keep it: General policy: renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/
Performing Arts Scholarship
$16,000
To keep it: General policy: renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters (criteria not stated on the page).
Source: https://www.faulkner.edu/admissions/scholarships/

How families lose this aid

Assuming the Zorn Scholarship is a full ride or covers any course.
Zorn is tuition-only ('Students are responsible for room and board, plus fees'), is limited to courses on the Bible-major degree plan, excludes most summer courses, cannot be stacked with other institutional scholarships, and never exceeds full tuition. It also carries heavy ongoing obligations: on-campus residency, two Bible courses per semester, a 3.0 Bible-course GPA, and 64 hours of ministry/service work per semester.
Dropping below full-time or stretching past nine semesters.
Full-time enrollment (at least 12 semester hours) is required for any scholarship, and scholarships are renewable 'for up to nine (9) semesters' only.

Renewal questions families ask

How long do scholarships last?: Unless otherwise noted, all scholarships are renewable upon meeting the continuation criteria for up to nine (9) semesters. The Zorn Scholarship is available for a maximum of five years.
What does Faulkner cost?: For 2026-2027, traditional block tuition is $12,300 per semester (12-18 hours), residence halls run about $2,100-$2,150 per semester (private-room charges extra), and meal plans run $975-$2,320 per semester. Faulkner does not publish a single full cost-of-attendance total on these pages.

Rules that bite at Faulkner

The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Faulkner's own tier rules and not generic advice.

renewalThe Zorn Scholarship (Jack Zorn Scholarship): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Available for a maximum of five years. Recipients must complete the FAFSA each academic year, live on campus, remain enrolled full-time as a traditional undergraduate, maintain a GPA of at least 3.0 in Bible courses, take a minimum of two Bible courses per semester, and complete 64 hours of ministry/service work a semester. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

How Faulkner compares across our verified dataset

669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Faulkner is one of them. The cohort minority (82 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.
133 of 751 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Faulkner is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.

Sources used on this page

Every renewal claim is checked against Faulkner’s own published materials.