Meredith College · North Carolina

Meredith College Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Meredith College

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

Who this school is for

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

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $64,828 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

$11,000–$17,000

Transfer Academic Scholarship

Automatic

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$5,000

Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship

Application

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Full cost of attendance

Meredith Presidential Transfer Scholarship

Application

GPA: 3.2

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Full cost of attendance

Meredith Presidential Scholarship

Application

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Up to $30,000

Academic Merit Scholarship

AutomaticRenewable

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$1,500

Thomas Meredith Baptist Heritage Scholarships

ApplicationRenewable

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Renewal terms

Maintain 2.5 GPA

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Lesser-known scholarships at Meredith College

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

Program Scholarship

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

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Interior Design Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityInterior Design Scholarships are competitive scholarships for interior design majors determined on the basis of scholarship and potential for success in the field and renewable annually for a total of four years with a minimum 3.0 GPA on all courses taken at Meredith.

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Art Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityArt Scholarships are competitive scholarships for outstanding first-year art majors selected on the basis of artistic talent and are renewable annually for a total of four years with a minimum 3.0 GPA in art courses taken at Meredith College.

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Creative Writing Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityCreative Writing Scholarships are for full-time students with an interest in creative writing; recipients are determined on the basis of scholarship and potential for success in creative writing, should have a minimum high school GPA of 3.0, and the scholarship is renewable annually for four years with a minimum 3.0 GPA on all courses taken at Meredith.

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Music Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityMusic Scholarships are competitive scholarships for first-year and transfer music majors or minors selected based on musical talent, academic ability, previous performance, commitment to music, and potential achievement; they are renewable annually for a total of four years with a minimum 3.0 GPA on all courses taken at Meredith.

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How Meredith College compares across our verified dataset

668 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Meredith College is one of them. The cohort minority (82 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 Meredith College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

coaMeredith College cost-of-attendance worksheet
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