Universidad del Sagrado Corazón · Puerto Rico
DRAFT: Sagrado (San Juan, PR) pairs one genuinely automatic merit award — the $600 Sagrado Pre-Achievers credit for 3.50-GPA freshmen with a 3,500+ admission index — with a competitive donor-funded becas program (application window March 1-April 30, interview required) and need-linked programs (FEE, Achievers) where merit alone is not enough.
The short answer
Sagrado is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 4 published awards, and one is based on those numbers.
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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.
Admission index of 3,500 or higher at the time of admission; enrolled in a minimum of 14 credits.
Granted automatically as a credit applied to tuition — 'El estudiante no tendrá que solicitar este incentivo.'
Competitive process. Full-time enrollment in a regular program leading to a first bachelor's degree; FAFSA filed for the award year; meet each beca's specific criteria; complete the General Application and Recommended Opportunities; willingness to participate in program activities. Preselected students are interviewed and have 3 days to confirm the email invitation.
Recipients must be willing to participate in Programa de Becas activities and meet each beca's requirements; renewal terms not stated.
Donor-funded (alumni, employees, parents, corporations). Application window ('Convocatoria abierta') March 1 - April 30. Includes school-specific becas (Artes/Diseño, Comunicación Ferré Rangel, Negocios, all-units).
New students from high school with high indicators of academic success AND demonstrated economic need; selected students stand out for leadership, entrepreneurship, social-community commitment and academic performance.
Merit-plus-need program for entering freshmen; details on a separate FEE page (not opened).
Undergraduate students in the regular (non-accelerated) modality: regular first-year students from high school, transfers starting at Sagrado, and continuing students. Graduate and accelerated-modality students are NOT eligible. Minimum 14 credits per semester.
Awarded at the start of the following semester after verifying the student met the requirements; tied to maintaining a minimum 14-credit load and academic performance.
Persistence/on-time-graduation incentive ('Programa de Incentivo de Honor y Persistencia') paid retrospectively at the start of the next semester; dollar value appears only in a page graphic, not in text.
Sagrado's institutional/private becas have a fixed convocatoria ('Convocatoria abierta: 1 de Marzo - 30 de Abril') on the AcademicWorks portal — outside that window you cannot apply.
Preselected becas applicants are invited by institutional email and have three (3) days to confirm receipt; 'De no confirmar el recibo, se le dará la oportunidad a otro estudiante' — your slot goes to someone else.
Only the $600 Pre-Achievers credit is automatic. The Programa de Becas is explicitly 'competitivo,' and FEE requires demonstrated economic need on top of academic indicators.
Both require a minimum of 14 credits — more than the 12-credit full-time floor used by the COA budgets.
Filing the FAFSA for the award year is a basic requirement of the becas application ('Llenar la solicitud FAFSA para el año académico en que se ofrecen las becas').
The page states 'Los estudiantes de nivel graduado y en la modalidad acelerada no son elegibles para recibir este incentivo.'
Apart from the $600 Pre-Achievers credit, no institutional beca on the pages opened publishes a dollar value; the Achievers incentive value appears only in a graphic. Get amounts in writing from programadebecas@sagrado.edu.
DRAFT: Strong Puerto Rico students (3.50+ GPA, 3,500+ admission index) get a small automatic credit, but the real money is competitive and mission-oriented — best for full-time bachelor's students who file FAFSA, apply in the March-April window, and can interview well; high-need high-achievers should target the FEE program.
Published yearly cost: Approximately $24,630 for 2026-2027. Source
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Sagrado, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
| Family income | Average net price paid |
|---|---|
| $0–$30,000 | $12,027 |
| $30,001–$48,000 | $12,671 |
| $48,001–$75,000 | $15,196 |
| $75,001–$110,000 | $17,990 |
| $110,001+ | $19,478 |
| All income levels (average) | $12,924 |
That works out to roughly a 34% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $19,728 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).
These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.
School-specific donor becas under the Programa de Becas.
School-specific donor becas.
School-specific donor becas.
Cross-school donor becas.
The becas application window (convocatoria) runs March 1 through April 30 on Sagrado's AcademicWorks portal (sagrado.academicworks.com). Preselected candidates are interviewed and must confirm the email invitation within 3 days.
Yes — Sagrado Pre-Achievers: a $600 credit to tuition for new high-school admits with a 3.50+ GPA, a 3,500+ admission index, and at least 14 enrolled credits. No application needed.
Published 2026-2027 full-time undergraduate cost-of-study budgets: $21,630/year living with parents, $24,630/year living on campus, $32,430/year independent (each includes tuition $2,760/semester, fees $955/semester, food, housing, books, transportation, and personal expenses).
The Fondo de Estudiantes Excepcionales is for entering freshmen with high academic-success indicators AND demonstrated economic need, who stand out in leadership, entrepreneurship, and community commitment. Amount not published on the main becas page.
An honor-and-persistence incentive: undergraduates in the regular modality who keep a 14+ credit load receive economic support, awarded at the start of the following semester once requirements are verified. Graduate and accelerated students are excluded; the dollar value is not published in page text.
Sagrado 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 Sagrado’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
