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Mississippi Christian University scholarships and merit aid

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Is Mississippi Christian University worth a closer look?

Mississippi Christian University may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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SAT: 1380
ACT: 30

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Beacon Of Excellence Transfer Scholarship

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Blue And Gold Legacy Scholarship

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Campus Visit Scholarship

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Early Admission Scholarship

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What Mississippi Christian University's aid office says

Per the Undergraduate Admissions Office, Mississippi Christian University, August 2026. How we verify

Minimum test score for scholarship consideration

Is there a minimum GPA/test score guarantee for a first-year academic award without using the calculator?

All students admitted to MC receive an academic scholarship offer, and admission requires at least an 18 superscored ACT (or equivalent SAT/CLT), using the highest score for admission and scholarship purposes.

“All students admitted to MC will receive an academic scholarship offer. To be considered for admission to the university, a student must have at least an 18 superscored on the ACT (or the equivalent SAT or CLT; we use the highest test score for admission and scholarship purposes).”

Stackable merit award amounts

What are the dollar amounts for the Stackable Merit awards (Beacon, Legacy, National Merit, Truth and Virtue, etc.)?

For fall 2026, on-campus students received $1,000 for the Beacon of Excellence Scholarship, $1,000 for the Campus Visit Scholarship, and $500 for the other named scholarships; amounts vary by on- or off-campus residency.

“These amounts vary based on if a student lives on or off campus. For fall 2026, the amounts were $1,000 for the Beacon of Excellence Scholarship and $1,000 the Campus Visit Scholarship for students living on campus. It was $500 for the others you named for students living on campus.”

Scholarship renewal requirement

What GPA and enrollment status are required to keep academic/merit scholarships each year?

Academic and merit scholarships renew yearly if the student maintains a 2.0 GPA and stays enrolled full-time.

“All academic and merit scholarships are renewable yearly, provided that the student maintains the institution's GPA requirement of 2.0 and stays enrolled in full-time hours.”

Outside scholarship impact on merit aid

If a student gets an outside scholarship exceeding cost of attendance, what happens to their merit aid?

If an outside scholarship exceeds the cost of attendance, academic or merit scholarships may be reduced.

“If a student gets an outside scholarship that exceeds the COA, the academic or merit scholarships may be reduced.”

Outside scholarship impact on loans

If a student already took federal loans and then gets an outside scholarship, what happens?

If a student has already taken federal loans and then receives an outside scholarship exceeding their balance, the office discusses reducing the loans or possibly eliminating the need for them.

“If a student has taken out their federal loans and then receives an outside scholarship that exceeds their balance, we discuss that the student reduces the loans they're taking out or in some cases, might not need the loans anymore.”

Outside scholarship impact on Pell/state aid

Do outside scholarships affect federal Pell Grant or Mississippi state aid?

Outside scholarships do not affect the amount of federal Pell Grant or Mississippi state aid a student receives.

“Outside scholarships do not impact the amount of federal PELL grant or MS state aid a student receives.”

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Who this school may work for

Students rooted in Christian values and active service will discover a welcoming community with meaningful scholarship support. Transfer students and those with scouting or ministry backgrounds are especially well-positioned here.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $46,491 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Mississippi Christian University, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$25,984
$30,001–$48,000	$25,743
$48,001–$75,000	$27,601
$75,001–$110,000	$29,083
$110,001+	$29,757
All income levels (average)	$27,712

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $23,500
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $27,712

That works out to roughly a 33% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $41,214 (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: 59%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 78%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $22,500 (~$239/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $47,485
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 37%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 42%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Mississippi Christian University'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 Mississippi Christian University'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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How Mississippi Christian University compares

132 of 749 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Mississippi Christian University 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.

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Every claim is checked against Mississippi Christian University’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceMississippi Christian University cost-of-attendance worksheet
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