Meredith College · North Carolina

Meredith College scholarships and merit aid

Strong academic performers and community college transfers find multiple pathways to recognition at Meredith.

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Is Meredith College worth a closer look?

Meredith College awards automatic merit on admission. Meredith College does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

Merit tiers41 based on grades or scores

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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.

$11,000–$17,000

Transfer Academic Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

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$5,000

Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship

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Full cost of attendance

Meredith Presidential Transfer Scholarship

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GPA: 3.2

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Full cost of attendance

Meredith Presidential Scholarship

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Who this school may work for

Students with a record of academic achievement and community college graduates with PTK membership are particularly well-positioned for competitive awards.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $64,828 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Meredith College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$17,207
$30,001–$48,000	$19,006
$48,001–$75,000	$18,064
$75,001–$110,000	$23,678
$110,001+	$29,117
All income levels (average)	$22,488

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $45,630
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $22,488

That works out to roughly a 61% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $57,313 (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: 70%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 79%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $25,000 (~$265/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $51,539
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 40%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 59%

How to read these numbers

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

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Other Meredith College scholarships worth checking

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

Satisky Scholarship For Teachers Of English

Amount$3,000EligibilityThe Satisky Scholarship for Teachers of English provides a $3,000 annual award for first-year students planning to major in English and add a teaching licensure in middle or high school English.

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Honors Program Scholarship

Amount$1,000EligibilityHonors students are awarded an annual scholarship of $1,000.

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Meredith Teaching Scholars Program

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Meredith Teaching Scholars Program is for exceptional high school seniors interested in the teaching profession and provides an educational experience enriched with classroom experience and related opportunities.

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Sources used on this page

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

Cost of attendanceMeredith College cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersTransfer Academic Scholarship
Scholarship pageHonors Program Scholarship

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