Troy University · Alabama
Troy's top freshman awards (Scholars PLUS / Scholars) cover tuition plus housing for high-stat students, stepping down to fixed-dollar awards ($6,000–$10,000 Chancellor's, $2,000–$4,000 Leadership) — all applied for through the TROY Scholarship Portal.
The short answer
Troy 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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These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.
Apply through the TROY Scholarship Portal
Covers up to 16 hours per semester; specific renewal GPA not stated on this page.
Covers tuition, full housing, and meal plan (up to 16 hours/semester). Not a full cost-of-attendance ride (e.g., books, transportation, miscellaneous remain).
Apply through the TROY Scholarship Portal
Covers up to 16 hours per semester; specific renewal GPA not stated on this page.
Covers tuition and basic housing (up to 16 hours/semester). Sorrell Scholars are selected from Scholars Award recipients.
Apply through the TROY Scholarship Portal
Renewal terms not stated on this page.
Award amount varies $6,000–$10,000 annually.
Apply through the TROY Scholarship Portal
Renewal terms not stated on this page.
Award amount varies $2,000–$4,000 annually.
High school student from Florida or Georgia; apply through the TROY Scholarship Portal
Renewable for 4 years with a 2.7 GPA.
Geographic award for FL/GA students.
Completed at least 12 hours of dual enrollment credit with TROY's Early College Dual Enrollment Program; main campus (Troy, AL) degree-seeking only
Renewable for 3 years with a 2.7 GPA.
Beginning Fall 2025. Main-campus only.
These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Troy's published information.
Troy's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.
Straight from the aid office
Per the Scholarship Office, Troy University, August 2026. How we verify
Does a higher SAT score this fall get him reconsidered?
Students have plenty of time to retake tests, and an updated score could possibly change their scholarship.
“Yes, students have plenty of time to retake tests and have updated scoring possibly reflect a change in their scholarship.”
If he wins a local scholarship, does it lower Troy's own award?
The writer does not believe local scholarships lower what a student receives from Troy, since local scholarships from a community or club tend to be cash value and should not alter the student's award.
“I do not believe it lower's what you would be receiving from Troy. Local scholarships from a student's community or club tend to be cash value and should not alter what a student is set to receive.”
What GPA keeps the award in place?
If a student receives the Scholars Award based on the scores listed, they need to maintain a 3.3 GPA every academic year.
“If a student receives the Scholars Award based on the scores you listed, the student needs to maintain a 3.3 GPA every academic year.”
Is there a recovery path after one bad semester?
The only grace period is that if a student drops below the GPA threshold, they will be notified before summer term/semester registration so they can try to improve their GPA before the next academic year.
“The only grace period allowed is if a student drops below this threshold, they will be notified before summer term/semester registration to try to improve their GPA before the next academic year.”
Scholars PLUS covers tuition, full housing, and a meal plan (up to 16 hours/semester) — books (~$1,000), transportation, fees, and miscellaneous are still on the student, so it is not full cost of attendance.
Each freshman academic scholarship says 'APPLY THROUGH THE TROY SCHOLARSHIP PORTAL' — you must submit a scholarship application, not just be admitted.
Scholars PLUS and Scholars cover up to 16 credit hours per semester; hours beyond that are not covered.
Sunshine Scholars (4 years) and Cardinal and Black (3 years) renew only with a 2.7 GPA; the TROY Legacy and Alabama Girls/Boys State awards are one-time and non-renewable.
Troy Campus Foundation Scholarships are due March 1; other scholarship deadlines are listed inside the TROY Scholarship Portal — check each one.
High-stat freshmen (33+ ACT, 3.7 GPA) chasing a tuition-plus-housing package, and solid 26-29 ACT students for the fixed-dollar Chancellor's award; Florida/Georgia students get a dedicated Sunshine Scholars award.
Published yearly cost: Approximately $27,910 for 2026-2027. Source
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Troy, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
| Family income | Average net price paid |
|---|---|
| $0–$30,000 | $12,656 |
| $30,001–$48,000 | $12,042 |
| $48,001–$75,000 | $14,321 |
| $75,001–$110,000 | $18,406 |
| $110,001+ | $22,139 |
| All income levels (average) | $16,527 |
That works out to roughly a 29% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $23,165 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).
Troy 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.
Scholarships, unless otherwise specified, are for one academic year and applied for through the TROY Scholarship Portal. Transfer scholarships explicitly cannot be stacked with other TROY transfer scholarships; the freshman page does not state whether the freshman academic awards stack with one another. Outside/private scholarship displacement is not addressed.
Explicit anti-stacking applies to TROY Transfer Scholarships ('not eligible to stack this scholarship with other TROY Transfer Scholarships'). No combine/stack statement for the freshman academic awards; no outside-scholarship displacement language found.
From the Troy Common Data Set 2023-2024:
At Troy, roughly 1 in 7 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $9,962 — about 36% of total cost.
As filed in Troy's CDS Section H2A: of 1,446 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 202 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $9,962. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 523 of 6,977, averaging $8,442. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.
These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.
Additional endorsement from Sorrell College of Business; serve as student ambassadors
One-time award
Freshman leadership scholarship
Through the TROY Scholarship Portal. Troy Campus Foundation Scholarships are due March 1; other deadlines are listed in the portal.
The Scholars PLUS Award (33-36 ACT/1450-1600 RSAT and 3.7 GPA) covers tuition, full housing, and a meal plan for up to 16 hours per semester.
$6,000–$10,000 annually, for students with 26-29 ACT/1230-1350 RSAT and a 3.5 GPA.
Yes — the Sunshine Scholars Award ($1,000–$2,000, renewable 4 years with a 2.7 GPA) for FL/GA high school students with a 3.0 GPA and at least 20 ACT/1030 RSAT.
Transfer scholarships cannot be stacked with other TROY transfer scholarships. The page doesn't state whether the freshman academic awards combine — confirm with Student Financial Services.
Troy is in a recognizable cluster (133 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
Troy is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
Troy 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.
Every claim is checked against Troy’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
