Johnson University · Tennessee

Johnson University scholarships and merit aid

Faith-driven students with strong academics and public speaking skills find the most traction here.

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Is Johnson University worth a closer look?

Johnson University may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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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.

Up to $5,000

Yu Ping Global Scholarship

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$500–$6,000

Preaching Public Speaking Competition Scholarship

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Rules that could change the answer

These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Johnson University's published information.

Outside awardsNo published displacement order
Johnson University's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

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Who this school may work for

This university rewards students who combine spiritual engagement with academic ambition, especially those active in preaching or speech competitions.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $38,200 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Johnson University, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$17,246
$30,001–$48,000	$19,212
$48,001–$75,000	$23,206
$75,001–$110,000	$25,075
$110,001+	$24,860
All income levels (average)	$22,063

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $21,122
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $22,063

That works out to roughly a 36% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $34,244 (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: 57%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 69%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $21,500 (~$228/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $40,596
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 39%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 58%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Johnson University'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 Johnson University'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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If your student brings another scholarship

Bible Bowl Scholarship awards cannot be stacked with multiple certificates and are awarded for the highest placement during years of competition.

Bible Bowl Scholarship awards cannot be stacked with multiple certificates and are awarded for the highest placement during years of competition.

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Other Johnson University scholarships worth checking

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

Preaching Scholarship

AmountUp to $10,000EligibilityPreaching Scholarship provides up to $10,000 per year for students who apply to the Preaching and Church Leadership or Preaching and Student Ministry undergraduate program.

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Mission Scholarship

AmountUp to $10,000EligibilityMission Scholarship provides up to $10,000 per year for students who apply to the applied linguistics, intercultural studies, intercultural commerce, missions, or Teaching ESL undergraduate programs.

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How Johnson University compares

133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Johnson University is in a recognizable cluster (133 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
133 of 749 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Johnson University is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

Sources used on this page

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

Policy pageJohnson University stacking policy
Cost of attendanceJohnson University cost-of-attendance worksheet
Scholarship pagePreaching Scholarship

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