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?
Père Marquette AwardTier-based scholarship; amount not publicly listed (Marquette directs families to a scholarship estimator).AutomaticRenewable
Published awardAcademic thresholds
Père Marquette Award
Tier-based scholarship; amount not publicly listed (Marquette directs families to a scholarship estimator).
Published award termsAll 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 Père Marquette Award
Who qualifies
All full-time first-year applicants are automatically considered. Varsity student-athletes and second-bachelor's degree earners are not eligible. Specific dollar tiers are delivered through Marquette's scholarship estimator rather than published as a stat-banded ladder.
How to keep it
Renewable each semester of a four-year (eight-semester) program as long as the recipient remains full-time and in good academic standing within their college.
Michael R. Lovell Presidential ScholarshipFull ride — tuition, fees, housing, and food (up to 4 awards available)Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship
Full ride — tuition, fees, housing, and food (up to 4 awards available)
Variable or qualified amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.
GPA
Preferred minimum 3.8 GPA
RenewableCheck the conditions
Open award details for Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship
Who qualifies
Must be admitted to Marquette before applying. Demonstrated commitment to social justice and community service through volunteerism and leadership.
How to keep it
Renewable through the standard four-year undergraduate program subject to maintaining program requirements.
Worth knowing
Marquette's top competitive scholarship. Only up to 4 awards per cohort. Application deadline February 1.
Burke Scholars ProgramService-leadership scholarship paired with the Père Marquette Award; specific dollar enhancement not publicly listed.Not automaticRenewable
Published awardOther selection criteria
Burke Scholars Program
Service-leadership scholarship paired with the Père Marquette Award; specific dollar enhancement not publicly listed.
Published award termsNot 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 Burke Scholars Program
Who qualifies
Separate application required after admission. Geared toward students with demonstrated community-service commitment.
How to keep it
Renewable through participation in the Burke Scholars cohort program.
National Merit ScholarshipAward amount not publicly listed on the overview page; Marquette is a participating National Merit institution.AutomaticRenewable
Published awardAcademic thresholds
National Merit Scholarship
Award amount not publicly listed on the overview page; Marquette is a participating National Merit institution.
Published award termsAll 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 National Merit Scholarship
Who qualifies
Awarded automatically to National Merit Finalists who name Marquette as their first-choice institution with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Lights up against Marquette'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 rulePère Marquette Award: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Renewable each semester of a four-year (eight-semester) program as long as the recipient remains full-time and in good academic standing within their college. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.
Aid capHard $79,050 cost-of-attendance ceiling
Institutional aid at Marquette cannot push the package past $79,050. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.
What makes Marquette different
Jesuit university in Milwaukee with one automatically-awarded merit scholarship (the Père Marquette Award) for every full-time admit plus a small set of competitive higher-tier programs (Lovell Presidential, Burke Scholars) gated by separate application.
Merit tiers42 based on grades or scores
First-year students with school awards42%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
Research checkedJul 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.
Match the published criteria
Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.
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.
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Straight from the aid office
What Marquette's aid office says
Per the Undergraduate Admissions Office, Marquette University, August 2026. How we verify
GPA used for merit scholarship
Is the GPA used for the merit scholarship the transcript GPA or a recalculated one?
The Pere Marquette merit scholarship is calculated using the unweighted GPA.
“The Pere Marquette merit scholarship is calculated using the unweighted GPA”
Combining scholarships with merit aid
Can a departmental or honors scholarship be combined with the merit scholarship, or is there a limit?
Other scholarships can be combined with the merit scholarship with no limit, except athletic scholarships.
“any other scholarships received can be combined with the merit, with no limit. The only exception to this is an athletic scholarship.”
GPA required to maintain scholarship
What GPA does a student need to maintain the scholarship after freshman year?
The student must remain in good academic standing with their specific college, and the required GPA varies by college based on its own requirements and rigor.
“would need to remain in good academic standing with the college he is a student in. Academic standing is determined by each college individually, so the GPA will be different for each based on different requirements and rigor.”
Frequency of academic standing review
How often is academic standing reviewed for scholarship purposes?
Academic standing is reviewed annually.
“academic standing is reviewed annually”
Timing of scholarship termination
If a scholarship is terminated, when does that take effect?
If a scholarship is terminated, it would take effect the following semester, not immediately.
“if a scholarship were to be terminated, it would be done so for the following semester”
What families often miss
Marquette explicitly cuts merit when tuition-specific awards exceed total tuition or when all combined awards exceed cost of attendance. Families with a near-full-ride Marquette package who win a $10,000 outside award may see institutional merit reduced rather than getting a $10,000 refund.
Marquette's full-ride award requires that students be admitted first and then submit a separate application by February 1. Regular-decision applicants who wait for their admit letter before researching scholarships often miss this window entirely.
Marquette delivers Père Marquette dollar amounts through an applicant-specific scholarship estimator rather than a published stat-banded ladder like Alabama or Ole Miss. Families cannot reverse-engineer what raising an ACT one point will produce.
See award cutoffs and special programs+
Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship — Marquette's full-ride award
Named for Marquette's late president, the Lovell Presidential Scholarship is the top of Marquette's merit ladder — a full ride covering tuition, fees, housing, and food. Marquette grants only up to four per entering class. Applicants must already be admitted to Marquette before they can apply, and the program looks for a preferred minimum 3.8 GPA combined with demonstrated leadership and community-service commitment. The deadline is February 1, well before most regular-decision admit packages arrive, so families need to plan for an early write-up if a Marquette full-ride is part of the school list.
Catholic and non-Catholic students looking for a mid-sized Midwest Jesuit university where the headline merit award is automatic at admission but the full-ride packages and Honors-style scholar programs require a second application by February 1.
Cost of attendance$79,050 for 2026-27Each bar is the full published cost for that scenario, sized against the highest figure so totals compare at a glance.
On-campus$79,050
$55K
$17K
Tuition & fees
Housing & food
Books
Personal
Travel
Dependent student in university housing. Fixed components (tuition $53,890, fees $1,200, living $17,480, materials $720, personal $2,950) sum to $76,240; travel is a published variable allowance and is the residual ($2,810) to reach Marquette's published total of $79,050.
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Marquette, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
Average annual net price by family income at Marquette, academic year 2021-22
Family income
Average net price paid
$0–$30,000
$22,269
$30,001–$48,000
$18,916
$48,001–$75,000
$27,378
$75,001–$110,000
$32,374
$110,001+
$36,813
All income levels (average)
$31,487
Sticker price vs. what students actually pay
Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$51,170
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$31,487
That works out to roughly a 53% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $66,768 (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
83%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
91%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$23,940 (~$254/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$78,257
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
20%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
43%
See other scholarships and cost examples+
If your student brings another scholarship
Outside scholarships first stack against unmet need. They begin displacing institutional aid once the total either exceeds tuition (for tuition-restricted awards) or exceeds total cost of attendance (for the full package). Marquette is explicit that merit awards can be cut when the combination tops these caps.
Marquette's published outside-scholarship policy has two displacement triggers. First, need-based aid may be reduced when need-based aid plus outside scholarships exceed financial need. Second, merit awards may be reduced when tuition-specific awards exceed total tuition, or when all awards combined (including outside scholarships) exceed the full cost of attendance. Outside scholarships must be reported to the Office of Student Financial Aid.
From the Marquette Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated figures):
Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Marquette’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.
42%of admitsget merit
Average award$30,813Covers ~39% of $79,050 cost of attendance
At Marquette, roughly 1 in 2 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $30,813 — about 39% of total cost.
As filed in Marquette's CDS Section H2A: of 2,148 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 906 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $30,813. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 3,436 of 7,582, averaging $25,878. 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 merit42%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
Average merit award$30,813Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)
These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.
AmountState-administered award; amount and cutoff set by Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids Board.EligibilityWisconsin residents who earn the Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarship from their Wisconsin high school. Marquette honors the state award when applied.
AmountAwarded by local Marquette alumni clubs; amounts vary by club and year.EligibilityOpen to students from regions served by an active alumni club; check the alumni-clubs directory for participating chapters.
Do I have to apply separately for Marquette's main merit scholarship?
No. The Père Marquette Award is automatic — Marquette states that 'All full-time applicants to Marquette are considered for the Père Marquette Award program.' Only the higher-tier competitive awards (Lovell Presidential, Burke Scholars, Honors program scholars) require a separate application after admission.
What's the deadline for the Lovell Presidential Scholarship?
February 1. The Lovell is Marquette's only full-ride merit award — covering tuition, fees, housing, and food — with up to four available per entering class. Students must be admitted to Marquette before they can apply, and the program looks for a 3.8 GPA minimum and demonstrated community service.
Will an outside scholarship reduce my Marquette merit?
It can. Marquette's policy states that merit awards may be reduced when 'tuition-specific awards exceed the total cost of tuition' or when 'all awards (including the outside scholarships) exceed the total cost of attendance.' Below those caps the outside scholarship stacks.
Is the Père Marquette Award renewable for four years?
Yes. Marquette states the award 'is renewable each semester of a recipient's four-year (eight-semester) undergraduate program, provided the recipient remains full time in good academic standing with their respective college.' Varsity athletes and second-bachelor's students are not eligible.
How much will it actually cost to go to Marquette?
For 2026-27, Marquette publishes tuition of $53,890 and a residential dependent-student cost of attendance of $79,050 (tuition + living + course materials + fees + personal + transportation). Marquette is a private institution and does not charge an out-of-state premium.
See sources and other schools+
How Marquette compares
235 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.
Marquette 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.
Marquette 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.
132 of 749 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Marquette is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.
Sources used on this page
Every claim is checked against Marquette’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
