These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.
Where does your student land?
Community College Transfer Scholarship$2,000Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Community College Transfer Scholarship
$2,000
Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.
GPA
2
RenewableCheck the conditions
Open award details for Community College Transfer Scholarship
How to keep it
Maintain 2 GPA
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb snapshot states community-college transfer eligibility, most recent prior college must be community college, $2,000 annual scholarship, and 2.0 cumulative GPA requirement.
Published amountNot 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 Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
How to keep it
Maintain 3 GPA
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb snapshot supports PTK/NSLS transfer documentation requirement, $3,500 annual scholarship, stackability with transfer awards, first-bachelor restriction, and 3.0 Lipscomb GPA renewal.
Church Match Program$500Not automatic
Published awardOther selection criteria
Church Match Program
$500
Published amountNot 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.
Open award details for Church Match Program
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb snapshot states Church of Christ match up to $500 per year for a first-time undergraduate and automatic award when church funds are received.
Scout Award$2,500Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Scout Award
$2,500
Published amountNot 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 Scout Award
How to keep it
Maintain 3 GPA
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb snapshot supports the listed scouting awards, $2,500 per year, proof requirement, on-campus residency, 3.0 GPA, and maximum eight-semester renewal.
Transfer Pathways Scholarship$14,000+Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Transfer Pathways Scholarship
$14,000+
Published award termsNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.
GPA
2.5
RenewableCheck the conditions
Open award details for Transfer Pathways Scholarship
How to keep it
Maintain 2.5 GPA
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb snapshot supports 12+ transfer hours from four-year/community college, minimum 2.5 GPA, first-bachelor/summer limits, $14,000-$20,000 per year range, and duration of enrollment.
Trustee Scholarship Eligibility Test GpaAmount not publishedNot automatic
Published awardOther selection criteria
Trustee Scholarship Eligibility Test Gpa
Amount not published
Published award termsNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.
GPA
3.5
Open award details for Trustee Scholarship Eligibility Test Gpa
Worth knowing
Official Trustee Scholarship snapshot supports ACT 30+/SAT 1360+/CLT 97+ including superscores and cumulative high-school GPA at least 3.5 through 2024-2025.
Christian Education Scholarship$5,000Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Christian Education Scholarship
$5,000
Published amountNot 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 Christian Education Scholarship
How to keep it
Maintain 2 GPA
Worth knowing
Official Lipscomb scholarship snapshot supports NCSA/CESA eligibility consideration, $5,000 per year amount, exclusions/full-tuition gift-aid cap language, and 2.0 cumulative GPA renewal.
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The fine print
Aid capHard $69,210 cost-of-attendance ceiling
Institutional aid at Lipscomb cannot push the package past $69,210. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.
What makes Lipscomb different
Lipscomb's merit aid centers on stacked academic awards like the Trustee Scholarship plus faith- and service-linked programs (Christian Education, Church Match, Scout Award) and generous transfer pathways.
Merit tiers7See who qualifies
First-year students with school awards34%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team
Selection beyond grades and scores
Start with the selection process.
These awards are not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read each award's selection rules, application steps and dates. Meeting a minimum is not an award offer.
Read the selection rules
Look for the school's stated criteria and whether an additional application is needed.
Check the application dates
Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.
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.
A printable research summary, source links and room for your questions.
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Who this school may work for
Academically strong applicants to this Christian university, transfer students with Phi Theta Kappa standing, and students who can layer church-match or scouting awards on top of academic merit.
Published yearly cost: Approximately $69,210 for 2026-2027. Source
Cost and graduation facts
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Lipscomb, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
Average annual net price by family income at Lipscomb, academic year 2021-22
Family income
Average net price paid
$0–$30,000
$20,048
$30,001–$48,000
$20,009
$48,001–$75,000
$24,124
$75,001–$110,000
$25,210
$110,001+
$31,265
All income levels (average)
$24,739
Sticker price vs. what students actually pay
Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$40,572
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$24,739
That works out to roughly a 55% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $55,117 (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
72%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
84%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$19,500 (~$207/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$55,541
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
32%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
31%
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If your student brings another scholarship
Awards are governed by Lipscomb's Direct Cost Policy: aid is adjusted to prevent an over-award of institutional aid against direct costs, and additional gift aid, including outside scholarships, can trigger that adjustment.
Verified policy language (2026-07-02): "Awards are subject to the Direct Cost Policy of the university. Awards will be adjusted to prevent an over-award of institutional aid." ... "Changes to a student's FAFSA, moving off-campus and additional gift aid (Lipscomb scholarships, outside scholarships, state and/or federal grants) may result in adjustment of institutional aid, including memorial scholarship awards." Separately, the school's own award-stacking rules: The Trustee Scholarship is not stackable with any other Lipscomb institutional aid. (per https://lipscomb.edu/admissions/tuition-and-financial-aid/current-students/types-aid-current-students/current-students-1)
From the Lipscomb Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated figures):
Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Lipscomb’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.
34%of admitsget merit
Average award$20,758Covers ~30% of $69,210 cost of attendance
At Lipscomb, roughly 1 in 3 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $20,758 — about 30% of total cost.
As filed in Lipscomb's CDS Section H2A: of 716 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 247 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $20,758. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 1,041 of 2,867, averaging $19,230. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.
The 2024-2025 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.
Receive institutional merit34%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
Average merit award$20,758Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
What is the deadline for Transfer Trustee Scholarship Deadline Fall2026?
The Fall 2026 Transfer Trustee Scholarship application opens November 1, 2025 and closes March 1, 2026. Students must be admitted prior to applying.
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How Lipscomb compares
235 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.
Lipscomb is in a recognizable cluster (235 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.
Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
