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King's College (PA) scholarships and merit aid

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Posted price$67,255per year · 2025-26 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

King's College (PA) awards automatic merit on admission. King's College (PA) does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

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Published scholarships

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  1. Presidential Scholarship (Full Tuition)Full tuitionNot automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Presidential Scholarship (Full Tuition)

    Full tuition

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Minimum recalculated 3.8 GPA (King's recalculates high school GPA using only mathematics, science, English, history, and foreign language)
    SAT
    Minimum 1310 (if not applying test optional)
    ACT
    Minimum 28 (if not applying test optional)
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Presidential Scholarship (Full Tuition)

    Who qualifies

    Top 5% of applicants; exemplary leadership, scholastic achievement, extracurricular activities, and/or community service; application with official transcripts by December 1; invited interview with the Scholarship Committee

    How to keep it

    Non-transferable and covers any increase in tuition for four years (eight semesters) of undergraduate academic study; alternatively covers three years (six semesters) for students in partnership or dual enrollment programs (e.g., 3+2 or 3+3).

    Worth knowing

    Competitive, interview-based. A May 2026 King's news release says the Fall 2026 cohort was two students, drawn from an applicant pool whose invited group represented the top four percent with an average GPA of 3.96.

  2. First-time, Full-time Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)$20,000-$30,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    First-time, Full-time Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)

    $20,000-$30,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for First-time, Full-time Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)

    Who qualifies

    Awarded automatically at acceptance based on high school academic success; no separate application. Test-optional applicants are reviewed individually. Per-tier GPA/test cutoffs are not published.

    How to keep it

    Renewable for up to eight undergraduate semesters of full-time enrollment (summer excluded) or completion of undergraduate degree requirements, whichever occurs first.

    Worth knowing

    Amounts listed are valid only for incoming Fall 2026 first-year students. Seven named levels: Christ the King $30,000; Blessed Basil Moreau $28,000; St. Joseph $26,000; St. Andre Bessette $26,000; Father James Connerton $26,000; Royal Regent Award $22,000; Monarch Achievement Award $20,000.

  3. Transfer Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)$22,000-$30,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Transfer Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)

    $22,000-$30,000

    Published rangeAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Transfer Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder)

    Who qualifies

    Considered automatically upon acceptance; criteria include high school academic record, SAT or ACT scores, and the college transcript. Per-tier cutoffs are not published.

    How to keep it

    The scholarships page's renewal sentence (eight undergraduate semesters of full-time enrollment) appears under the merit scholarships heading; the page does not state a separate transfer renewal term — confirm with the aid office.

    Worth knowing

    Five named levels: St. Francis $30,000; Father Lane $28,000; Moreau $26,000; Christi Regis $24,000; Deprizio $22,000. King's states 99% of full-time transfer students received merit scholarships (2024-2025 statistic).

  4. Tuition Match Program (Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey residents)Amount not published (reduces tuition and fees to the student's state-flagship in-state price: CT $21,336, DE $17,660, NJ $17,930 for 2025-26)Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Tuition Match Program (Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey residents)

    Amount not published (reduces tuition and fees to the student's state-flagship in-state price: CT $21,336, DE $17,660, NJ $17,930 for 2025-26)

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Tuition Match Program (Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey residents)

    Who qualifies

    Resident of Connecticut, Delaware, or New Jersey; accepted to King's College; FAFSA filed each year. Eligible students are identified through the completed college application and FAFSA — no separate application.

    How to keep it

    Offered for up to eight consecutive semesters of undergraduate study; students must file a FAFSA each year, maintain a minimum 2.00 cumulative GPA, and meet Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress; deferring enrollment at any time ends eligibility.

    Worth knowing

    Page describes the program for students accepted 'for the 2025-26 academic year' — confirm 2026-27 continuation. Covers only the tuition-and-fees difference; housing, meals, and indirect costs are not covered. Non-transferable, no cash value.

Lights up against King's College (PA)'s published cutoffs. Not an award offer; confirm with the financial aid office. Award terms and residency rules change; some awards differ for in-state and out-of-state students. Always confirm at the school’s source page.

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The fine print

Renewal ruleFirst-time, Full-time Undergraduate Scholarships (named merit ladder): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

Renewable for up to eight undergraduate semesters of full-time enrollment (summer excluded) or completion of undergraduate degree requirements, whichever occurs first. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

What makes King's College (PA) different

King's College awards a named merit scholarship ($20,000-$30,000) to every accepted first-year automatically at acceptance, plus a full-tuition Presidential Scholarship for the top 5% and a flagship-price Tuition Match for CT/DE/NJ residents.

Merit tiers42 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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What families often miss

  1. King's FAQ states outside scholarships first fill unmet need; after that, they 'reduce or replace federal loan or work-study eligibility.' You must also report every outside award to the aid office. The displacement is loan-first (it trims borrowing, not your King's merit), but it does not lower your family's net price dollar-for-dollar once need is met.

  2. Presidential consideration requires the complete application (transcripts, and SAT 1310/ACT 28 if not test-optional) by December 1, and King's recalculates GPA using only math, science, English, history, and foreign language — a 3.8 minimum on the recalculated scale. Electives that inflate a school GPA don't count, so students near 3.8 may miss the cutoff.

  3. Only the Presidential Scholarship is described as covering 'any increase in tuition.' The named first-year and transfer scholarships are stated as fixed dollar amounts ($20,000-$30,000) renewable for eight semesters, with no published escalation — as tuition rises each year, a fixed award covers less. Ask the aid office whether named merit amounts ever increase.

  4. Full tuition was $43,000 in 2025-26, but the published first-year resident cost of attendance was $67,255 — fees, housing, food, and indirect costs remain. Likewise, the Tuition Match covers only the tuition-and-fees difference, explicitly not housing, meals, books, or transportation.

  5. Both program pages state that a student who defers enrollment at any time for any length is no longer eligible; students must remain consecutively enrolled.

  6. The LLEO page warns: 'If a family declines the Federal Direct Subsidized loan, the LLEO Program will not cover remaining costs, and a balance may appear on your bill for the amount these funds would have covered.' LLEO also has a hard income gate ($50,000 or less family income on the FAFSA) and May 1 acceptance/FAFSA deadlines.

  7. King's scholarships and grants renew only with full-time undergraduate enrollment and satisfactory academic progress; Tuition Match and LLEO additionally require a 2.00 cumulative GPA and a new FAFSA every year. Merit renewal is capped at eight semesters (summer excluded).

  8. King's states (Tuition Match page) that 'Total funding that a student receives from all sources (e.g., financial aid, King's College aid, private scholarships) cannot exceed their total cost of attendance' — and on the LLEO page the cap is direct costs. Large outside awards can therefore trigger aid adjustments.

See costs and school data

Who this school may work for

Strong B+-to-A students who want guaranteed five-figure merit with no extra application, top-5% students (3.8 recalculated GPA, 1310 SAT/28 ACT) chasing the full-tuition Presidential Scholarship, and CT/DE/NJ families who want private-college tuition matched to their state flagship price.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $67,255 for 2025-26. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at King's College (PA), what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at King's College (PA), academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$17,283
$30,001–$48,000$17,259
$48,001–$75,000$19,692
$75,001–$110,000$23,657
$110,001+$28,391
All income levels (average)$23,093

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$44,100
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$23,093

That works out to roughly a 60% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $57,973 (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
60%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
76%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$59,498
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
40%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
84%
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If your student brings another scholarship

Outside scholarships must be reported. They first fill any unmet financial need; once need is met, they reduce or replace federal loans or work-study before touching grants or merit — a loan-first displacement policy. Separately, on the Tuition Match and LLEO program pages King's states total funding from all sources cannot exceed cost of attendance (or direct costs for LLEO).

Per the Financial Aid FAQ: outside awards are applied to unmet need first; if need is met and the student receives federal/state aid, the outside award reduces or replaces federal loan or work-study eligibility. The Tuition Match page adds an all-sources cap at total cost of attendance; the LLEO page caps all-source funding at direct costs (tuition and fees, plus housing and meals if living on campus).

Source

Other King's College (PA) scholarships worth checking

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

AmountRemaining tuition and fees after financial aid (amount varies)EligibilityFirst-time or transfer students who attended/graduated from a Luzerne or Lackawanna County high school (plus listed border schools/homeschool zones), accepted by May 1, FAFSA filed before May 1, total family income $50,000 or less on the FAFSA.

Need/geography-based, not merit. King's pays the tuition-and-fees balance after scholarships, grants, PA State Grant, and the Federal Direct Subsidized loan are applied; declining the subsidized loan leaves a balance. Renewal requires yearly FAFSA by May 1, 2.00 cumulative GPA, and SAP. Does not cover housing, meals, or indirect costs.

Source

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityDeserving students who require additional financial assistance to continue or complete their undergraduate studies; request via finaid@kings.edu.

Retention-focused fund for students facing financial difficulties mid-degree.

Source

AmountUp to full tuitionEligibilityQualified ROTC applicants/enrollees.

Army ROTC: up to full tuition, $900 for books, monthly stipend $300 (freshmen) to $500 (seniors), plus free housing and meals upon enrollment for four-year/three-year advanced designee scholarships. Air Force ROTC: full tuition, lab and incidental fees, textbook reimbursement.

Source

Amount$500 per academic yearEligibilityCurrent LVHN employees and their dependents accepted and enrolled full-time in an undergraduate program; all application materials due prior to the January 1 deadline.

Application fees also waived for LVHN employees and dependents.

Source

AmountOne-third tuition discountEligibilityBaccalaureate alumni and their spouses taking undergraduate courses part-time (up to eleven credit hours per semester) for grad/professional school prerequisites, second majors, or certificates, on a space-available basis.

Does not cover lab fees; undergraduate courses only.

Source

Amount$2,300EligibilityFull-time undergraduates at an AICUP school with extraordinary community-service commitment; cannot reapply if a previous recipient. Deadline May 20, 2026.

Application hosted on kings.edu.

Source

Amount$5,150 (eight available)EligibilityFull-time undergraduates in a Nursing or Physician Assistant program at an AICUP school; minimum 3.0 GPA; campus leader and community volunteer; previous recipients may not reapply. Deadline May 20, 2026.

Application hosted on kings.edu.

Source

King's College (PA) merit aid FAQ

  • Do I need a separate application for King's merit scholarships?

    No. 'Upon acceptance to King's College, merit evaluation automatically occurs, and a separate application is not required.' Your award is announced in your acceptance letter. Test-optional applicants are reviewed for scholarships on an individual basis.

  • What is the scholarship deadline?

    For the full-tuition Presidential Scholarship, the complete application (with transcripts, and SAT 1310/ACT 28 scores if not test-optional) must be in by December 1; finalists are invited to interview. The regular named merit awards have no separate deadline — they are assigned at acceptance. King's preferred FAFSA filing deadline is February 15 for incoming first-year students (April 15 for returning students), and PA residents must file by May 1 for the PA State Grant.

  • How much merit can a first-year student get?

    Every accepted first-year is evaluated automatically. The named ladder for Fall 2026 runs from the Monarch Achievement Award ($20,000) up to the Christ the King Scholarship ($30,000), with the full-tuition Presidential Scholarship reserved for the top 5% of applicants who meet the December 1/3.8 recalculated GPA criteria.

  • Do transfer students get merit aid?

    Yes — transfer scholarships range from the Deprizio Award ($22,000) to the St. Francis Scholarship ($30,000), based on high school record, SAT/ACT scores, and the college transcript. King's reports 99% of full-time transfer students received merit scholarships (2024-25).

  • Is the Presidential Scholarship a full ride?

    No — it is full tuition (and it covers tuition increases for eight semesters; six semesters for 3+2/3+3 partnership programs). Fees, housing, food, and indirect costs are not included; published 2025-26 first-year resident cost of attendance was $67,255 versus $43,000 tuition.

  • What happens if I win an outside scholarship?

    You must notify the Office of Financial Aid. Outside awards first fill unmet need; once need is met and you receive federal/state aid, the outside award 'will first be used to reduce or replace federal loan or work-study eligibility.'

  • How do scholarships renew?

    Merit scholarships renew for up to eight undergraduate semesters of full-time enrollment (summer excluded). King's scholarships and grants renew each year you are enrolled full-time and meeting satisfactory academic progress; you must file a renewal FAFSA each year for federal/state aid. Tuition Match and LLEO also require a 2.00 cumulative GPA and consecutive enrollment.

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How King's College (PA) compares

  • 145 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use loan-first displacement.

    King's College (PA) is in a recognizable cluster (145 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    King's College (PA) 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 King's College (PA)’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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