Southern Utah· Renewal Rules
Keeping Southern Utah’s Merit Aid for Four Years
What the financial-aid office actually requires after freshman year: minimum GPA, credit-hour pace, and the cliffs that quietly downgrade families mid-degree.
At a glance
- Renewable tiers
- 14 of 14
- One-time tiers
- 0
- Tiers with published renewal terms
- 14
- Renewal risk profile
- moderate
Renewal risk profile
Southern Utah's renewal bar is achievable for steady students but isn't generous. Most awards require a cumulative GPA in the 3.0–3.4 band plus full-time enrollment. Audit the strictest tier on this school's list before assuming the four-year value is locked in.
- Resident Fellows Scholarship: 3.3 GPA
- Non Resident Centurium Scholarship: See notes
- Non Resident Wue Scholarship: See notes
- Resident Centurium Scholarship: See notes
- Non Resident Founders Scholarship: See notes
- Transfer Non Resident Founders Scholarship: 3.3 GPA
- Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship: See notes
- Snow Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship: See notes
- Non Resident Merit Scholarship: See notes
- Snow Transfer Resident Fellows Scholarship: 3.5 GPA
- Snow Transfer Resident Centurium Scholarship: See notes
- Snow Transfer Resident Deans Scholarship: See notes
- Snow Transfer Non Resident Wue Scholarship: See notes
- Resident Founders Scholarship: 3.3 GPA
Renewal terms by tier
Resident Fellows Scholarship
$2,228To keep it: Maintain 3.3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Non Resident Centurium Scholarship
$6,000To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Non Resident Wue Scholarship
$6,000To keep it: Maintain 2 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Resident Centurium Scholarship
$500To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Non Resident Founders Scholarship
$7,400To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Transfer Non Resident Founders Scholarship
$7,400To keep it: Maintain 3.3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship
$2,750To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Snow Transfer Non Resident Achievement Scholarship
$2,750To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Non Resident Merit Scholarship
$3,000To keep it: Maintain 2 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Snow Transfer Resident Fellows Scholarship
$2,500To keep it: Maintain 3.5 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Snow Transfer Resident Centurium Scholarship
$750To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Snow Transfer Resident Deans Scholarship
$1,250To keep it: Maintain 3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Snow Transfer Non Resident Wue Scholarship
$6,000To keep it: Maintain 2 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Resident Founders Scholarship
$1,615To keep it: Maintain 3.3 GPA
Source: https://www.suu.edu/finaid/scholarshipguidelines.html
Rules that bite at Southern Utah
The renewal trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook, derived from Southern Utah's own tier rules and not generic advice.
- renewalSnow 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.
How Southern Utah compares across our verified dataset
- 69 of 750 verified schools publish a top renewal tier requiring 3.5+ GPA or major-GPA gating.
Southern Utah is one of them. Calibrate year-one academic load against the renewal floor, not just freshman survival.
- 669 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Southern Utah is one of them. The cohort minority (81 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 renewal claim is checked against Southern Utah’s own published materials.