What is the deadline for Zell Miller Scholarship?

The application deadline for Georgia’s Zell Miller Scholarship is the last day of class for the semester the student is seeking payment from these funds.

What is the deadline for Hope Scholarship?

The application deadline for Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship is the last day of class for the semester the student is seeking payment from these funds.

What is the deadline for Presidents Scholarship?

Georgia College lists President's Scholarship completion in early December.

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Georgia College Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Georgia College

Strong STEM research culture with awards supporting hands-on work in chemistry and physics.

Who this school is for

Students with strong science backgrounds who want undergraduate research opportunities will find GCSU particularly supportive. Georgia residents qualifying for state aid may also access additional institutional awards.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $31,995 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Georgia College, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$15,396
$30,001–$48,000	$16,772
$48,001–$75,000	$19,179
$75,001–$110,000	$22,294
$110,001+	$23,216
All income levels (average)	$20,686

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $9,186
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $29,512
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $20,686

That works out to roughly a 32% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $30,258 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Georgia College is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 64%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 82%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $22,250 (~$236/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $58,140
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 19%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 36%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Georgia College'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 Georgia College'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.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

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Distinguished Scholar Award

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Presidents Scholarship Competition

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Common Data Set snapshot

From the Georgia College Common Data Set 2021-2022 (school-estimated figures):

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Georgia College’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.

2%of admitsget merit

Average award$2,685Covers ~8% of $31,995 cost of attendance

At Georgia College, roughly 1 in 50 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $2,685 — about 8% of total cost.

As filed in Georgia College's CDS Section H2A: of 1,502 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 25 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $2,685. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 227 of 5,027, averaging $2,091. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

The 2021-2022 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.

Receive institutional merit2%First-year students, CDS 2021-2022 (school-estimated)

Average merit award$2,685Across recipients, CDS 2021-2022 (school-estimated)

Source: Common Data Set 2021-2022 (verified 2026-07-23)

Lesser-known scholarships at Georgia College

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

Chemistry Research And Travel

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityChemistry Research and Travel awards seven 4-year renewable scholarships each year to first-year students enrolled in the Chemistry Freshman Seminar Course who have at least a 3.0 GPA and a desire to pursue a B.S. in Chemistry.

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Physics Research And Travel

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityPhysics Research and Travel awards seven 3-year renewable scholarships to first-year students or sophomores enrolled in the freshman or second year Physics Seminar Course who have at least a 3.0 GPA.

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National Science Foundation Scholarships In Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics S Stem

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityNational Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (S-Stem) awards seven 3-year renewable scholarships to first-year students or sophomores enrolled in the freshman or second year Physics Seminar Course who have at least a 3.0 GPA.

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Georgia College merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Zell Miller Scholarship?
The application deadline for Georgia’s Zell Miller Scholarship is the last day of class for the semester the student is seeking payment from these funds.
What is the deadline for Hope Scholarship?
The application deadline for Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship is the last day of class for the semester the student is seeking payment from these funds.
What is the deadline for Presidents Scholarship?
Georgia College lists President's Scholarship completion in early December.

Sources used on this page

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

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