Morehouse (HBCU, men's) considers newly admitted freshmen automatically for institutional scholarships from the admission application, but the dollar amounts are withheld behind a scholarship portal and donor criteria — the published awards (Academic, Athletic, Talent, Oprah Winfrey) list eligibility and renewal rules, not amounts. (DRAFT)
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The short answer
Is Morehouse worth a closer look?
Morehouse 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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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.
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Institutional Scholarships (Automatic Scholarship Match for newly admitted students)
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Who qualifies
Newly admitted freshmen automatically considered based on the admission application; must meet criteria established by scholarship donors; FAFSA strongly encouraged. Morehouse Online students are NOT eligible
How to keep it
Continued eligibility requires meeting donor criteria, maintaining GPA / community service hours / other conditions, and submitting required documents.
Notes
Dollar amounts are not grid-published; awards are matched in an Institutional Scholarship Portal (AcademicWorks). Current students apply via the portal.
Complete admission application + FAFSA + paid application fee/waiver; evaluation of 4 distinguished activities (academic, leadership, extracurricular, recommendations). Reviewed, ranked, and selected by an awards committee
How to keep it
Freshmen: cumulative 2.75 GPA at end of first year; upperclassmen: cumulative 3.0 GPA at end of each year. Must earn 28-36 institutional credit hours/year, file FAFSA, maintain continuous full-time Fall+Spring enrollment. Renewable a maximum of 8 semesters; cannot be used for summer courses.
Notes
Initial criteria and renewal cliffs are published, but the award DOLLAR AMOUNT is not. Students cover any credit hours over 18 per semester.
Maintain 2.0 cumulative GPA; earn 9 credits/semester or 24/year; file FAFSA; remain NCAA-compliant. Renewed annually; cover up to 36 credit hours/year. May be reduced or cancelled for ineligibility, misconduct, voluntarily quitting the sport, or transfer notification.
Enroll in the assigned ensemble course; complete music duties; FAFSA. Vocalists/instrumentalists must perform in required concerts
How to keep it
Granted on a semester basis (not summer); maintain 2.0 cumulative GPA; participate in all required rehearsals/practices and assigned performances; must reapply each year. Failure to perform required concerts can cancel the award.
3.2 minimum high school GPA (or 3.0 Morehouse GPA)
SAT
1200
ACT
26
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Who qualifies
Demonstrated commitment to service AND an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) of $5,000 or less. Need + merit hybrid; applications solicited each spring, selected by May
How to keep it
Maintain cumulative 3.0 GPA, complete 15 credit hours each semester, and fulfill annual service/program participation requirements (mentoring, leadership program implementation).
Notes
Provides financial support plus leadership development and a South Africa service trip. Selection is need-gated (EFC <= $5,000).
These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Morehouse's published information.
Renewal ruleMorehouse College Academic Award (MCAA): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Freshmen: cumulative 2.75 GPA at end of first year; upperclassmen: cumulative 3.0 GPA at end of each year. Must earn 28-36 institutional credit hours/year, file FAFSA, maintain continuous full-time Fall+Spring enrollment. Renewable a maximum of 8 semesters; cannot be used for summer courses. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.
Outside awardsDifferent aid types are displaced differently
Morehouse treats loans, work-study, and institutional grant under different rules. The same $5,000 outside award can land against any of them depending on category.
What families often miss
Morehouse withholds institutional scholarship amounts — newly admitted students are matched automatically from the admission application and notified at admission, and current students apply through the AcademicWorks scholarship portal. There is no published GPA-to-dollar grid, so plan around 'amount not published.'
The Academic Award (MCAA) and Athletic and Talent awards all require submitting the FAFSA, and the college strongly encourages FAFSA for all institutional scholarship consideration — skipping it can cost you merit eligibility.
The MCAA requires a 2.75 cumulative GPA at the end of the first year and a 3.0 cumulative GPA every year thereafter, plus 28-36 earned institutional credits per year and continuous full-time enrollment; it is renewable for a maximum of 8 semesters and cannot pay for summer courses.
It is a need+merit hybrid with a hard need cap — eligibility requires an Expected Family Contribution of $5,000 or less (plus 3.2 HS GPA, SAT 1200/ACT 26, and demonstrated service), and renewal requires a 3.0 GPA, 15 credits/semester, and completing service requirements.
Institutional awards cannot be used for summer term, Study Abroad, or Dual Degree programs, and Morehouse Online students are not eligible for institutional scholarships at all. Awards are applied to your account first, before other aid.
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Who this school may work for
Strong applicants (3.4+ HS GPA with distinguished activities) who file the FAFSA and apply for admission; service-minded students with high need (EFC under $5,000) may qualify for the Oprah Winfrey Endowed Scholars Program. (DRAFT)
Published yearly cost: Approximately $56,442 for 2025-2026. Source
Cost and graduation facts
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Morehouse, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
Average annual net price by family income at Morehouse, academic year 2021-22
Family income
Average net price paid
$0–$30,000
$36,359
$30,001–$48,000
$36,534
$48,001–$75,000
$40,092
$75,001–$110,000
$41,179
$110,001+
$42,723
All income levels (average)
$39,013
Sticker price vs. what students actually pay
Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$32,893
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$39,013
That works out to roughly a 24% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $51,433 (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
87%
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)
$52,889
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
48%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
60%
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If your student brings another scholarship
Institutional awards are non-refundable and applied directly to the student's account FIRST, before all other eligible aid. They cannot be used for summer term, Study Abroad, or Dual Degree programs, and Morehouse Online students are ineligible. The page does not address how outside/private scholarships are treated.
Institutional awards apply to direct costs (tuition, mandatory fees, on-campus housing, meal plans) first; outside-scholarship displacement is not stated.
Newly admitted freshmen are automatically considered based on their admission application (you may be directed to the scholarship portal in special cases). Current students apply through the Morehouse Institutional Scholarship Portal (AcademicWorks).
What GPA do I need for the Academic Award?
A 3.4 minimum high school GPA plus four distinguished activities and a completed FAFSA. To renew, keep a 2.75 cumulative GPA after year one and a 3.0 every year after.
What are the Oprah Winfrey Scholars eligibility requirements?
A 3.2 high school GPA (or 3.0 at Morehouse), SAT 1200 or ACT 26, demonstrated commitment to service, and an Expected Family Contribution of $5,000 or less.
What does Morehouse cost?
The 2025-26 on-campus residential cost of attendance is $56,442 (tuition $30,122 + student fees $4,012 + housing + food + other).
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How Morehouse compares
32 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use mixed displacement.
Morehouse is in the small minority (32 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.
Morehouse 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 Morehouse’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
