Pfeiffer University · North Carolina

Pfeiffer University scholarships and merit aid

Academic excellence is rewarded through multiple scholarship tiers for freshmen and transfer students alike.

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The short answer

Is Pfeiffer University worth a closer look?

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

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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.

$7,500–$20,000

Transfer Academic Scholarships

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$10,000–$20,000

Freshman Academic Scholarships

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Straight from the aid office

What Pfeiffer University's aid office says

Per the Office of Financial Aid, Pfeiffer University, August 2026. How we verify

Outside scholarship reduction order

When an outside or private scholarship posts, which funds are reduced first: institutional merit, institutional grant, loans, or unmet need?

Of the options asked (institutional merit, institutional grant, loans, unmet need), the office answered that an outside scholarship goes against unmet need first.

“It would be unmet need.”

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Who this school may work for

First-year and transfer students with strong academic records should explore Pfeiffer's scholarship options, including the Grigg Education Scholars Program for those interested in education.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $36,230 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Pfeiffer University, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$16,167
$30,001–$48,000	$14,758
$48,001–$75,000	$16,941
$75,001–$110,000	$20,005
$110,001+	$24,513
All income levels (average)	$19,076

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $35,070
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $19,076

That works out to roughly a 58% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $45,542 (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: 35%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $26,163 (~$277/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $51,562
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 49%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 73%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Pfeiffer 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 Pfeiffer 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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Other Pfeiffer University scholarships worth checking

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

Grigg Education Scholars Program

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Grigg Education Scholars Program provides scholarship support to exceptional prospective teachers preparing for excellence in the teaching profession and developing servant leadership skills.

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Milton Rose Science Fellows Scholarships

AmountUp to $8,000EligibilityThe Milton Rose Science Fellows Scholarships are available to science majors with a 3.5 GPA or above, up to $8,000.

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How Pfeiffer University compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Pfeiffer University 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 Pfeiffer University’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendancePfeiffer University cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersTransfer Academic Scholarships
Merit tiersFreshman Academic Scholarships

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