Fresno Pacific University · California

Fresno Pacific scholarships and merit aid

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Is Fresno Pacific worth a closer look?

Fresno Pacific is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 20 published awards, and 16 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers2016 based on grades or scores

Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

$18,000

Presidents Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 4

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$500–$1,500

Church Match

Apply separately

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$14,000

Heritage Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.5

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$12,000

Faculty Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.25

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$8,000

Founders Grant

Based on grades or scores

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$12,000

Transfer Achievement Award

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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$16,000

Deans Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.75

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Full tuition

Paragon Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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$9,000

Transfer Academic Award

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 2.4

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$6,000

Transfer Partnership Grant

Based on grades or scores

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$8,000

Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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$14,000

Transfer Scholar

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.5

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$12,000

Transfer Achievement

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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$9,000

Transfer Academic

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 2.4

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$6,000

Transfer Partnership

Based on grades or scores

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Up to $6,000

International Scholarship

Apply separately

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$4,000

Mennonite Brethren Award

Apply separately

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$4,000

Out Of State Student Scholarship

Apply separately

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$14,000

Transfer Scholar Award

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.5

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$10,000

Directors Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3

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Who this school may work for

Transfer students will find the most options here, alongside those with church affiliations or Mennonite connections. International and out-of-state applicants also have dedicated pathways.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $48,012 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Fresno Pacific, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Fresno Pacific, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$11,133
$30,001–$48,000	$11,929
$48,001–$75,000	$10,799
$75,001–$110,000	$15,744
$110,001+	$20,353
All income levels (average)	$13,630

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $36,660
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $13,630

That works out to roughly a 69% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $44,249 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 50%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $23,146 (~$245/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $58,896
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 55%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 48%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Fresno Pacific's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Fresno Pacific's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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Other Fresno Pacific scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Theater Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityTheater Scholarship is awarded based on audition, requires a 2.0 GPA, and requires continued participation in theater at Fresno Pacific University.

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Seminary Student Academic Fellowship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilitySeminary Student Academic Fellowship is an honors scholarship applied to all incoming students who enter the program with a 3.25 GPA or higher.

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Music Scholarship

Amount$400–$10,000EligibilityThe Music performance-based scholarship ranges from $400 to $10,000.

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Theatre Arts Scholarship

Amount$500–$4,000EligibilityThe Theatre Arts performance-based scholarship ranges from $500 to $4,000.

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Art Design Scholarship

Amount$500–$4,000EligibilityThe Art/Design performance-based scholarship ranges from $500 to $4,000.

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Athletic Scholarship

AmountFull tuitionEligibilityThe Athletic performance-based scholarship ranges from $500 to full tuition.

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How Fresno Pacific compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Fresno Pacific is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Fresno Pacific’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceFresno Pacific cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersFounders Grant

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