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Southern Utah scholarships and merit aid

SUU offers tiered merit scholarships with clear pathways for both incoming and transfer students.

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The short answer

Is Southern Utah worth a closer look?

Southern Utah is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 22 published awards, and 22 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers2222 based on grades or scores

Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

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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.

$2,228

Resident Fellows Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

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$6,000

Non Resident Centurium Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

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$6,000

Non Resident Wue Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 2 GPA

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$500

Resident Centurium Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

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$7,400

Non Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

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$7,400

Transfer Non Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

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$2,750

Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

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$2,750

Snow Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

$3,000

Non Resident Merit Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 2 GPA

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$2,500

Snow Transfer Resident Fellows Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3.5 GPA

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$750

Snow Transfer Resident Centurium Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

$1,250

Snow Transfer Resident Deans Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

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$6,000

Snow Transfer Non Resident Wue Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 2 GPA

Source

$1,615

Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

Source

$1,000

Resident Deans Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

Full tuition

Presidents Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 3.5 GPA

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$1,615

Transfer Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

Source

$2,228

Transfer Resident Fellows Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3.5 GPA

Source

$500

Transfer Resident Centurium Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3 GPA

Source

$6,000

Transfer Non Resident Wue Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 2 GPA

Source

$2,000

Snow Transfer Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

Source

$7,400

Snow Transfer Non Resident Founders Scholarship

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

See who qualifies

How to keep it

Maintain 3.3 GPA

Source

See what could change an award

Rules that could change the answer

These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Southern Utah's published information.

Renewal ruleSnow Transfer Resident Fellows Scholarship: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Maintain 3.5 GPA A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

See costs and school data

Who this school may work for

High-achieving students from Utah and the broader West will find the most opportunity here, especially transfer students and those eligible for WUE rates.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $19,582 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Southern Utah, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$6,070
$30,001–$48,000	$7,235
$48,001–$75,000	$9,297
$75,001–$110,000	$12,487
$110,001+	$14,917
All income levels (average)	$10,462

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $6,962
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $21,192
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $10,462

That works out to roughly a 46% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $19,416 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Southern Utah is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 61%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 76%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $12,500 (~$133/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $50,296
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 28%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 24%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Southern Utah'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 Southern Utah'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 Southern Utah compares

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

Cost of attendanceSouthern Utah cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersResident Fellows Scholarship

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