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Alaska Southeast scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$31,262per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Alaska Southeast is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 3 published awards, and 3 are based on those numbers.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
3 school sources to explore

Published rules, with the school sources close at hand. Confirm the details before you count on an award.

The award collection

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.

Where does your student land?

  1. Chancellor's AwardAmount not published (covers partial on-campus housing for the first year)Automatic
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Chancellor's Award

    Amount not published (covers partial on-campus housing for the first year)

    Published coverage or packageAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.50 or higher
    Open award details for Chancellor's Award

    Who qualifies

    New full-time student (first-time OR transfer); must live in on-campus housing; FAFSA must be completed

    Renewal terms

    Stated as a first-year-only award; the page describes it as covering partial on-campus housing costs for 'a new student's first year at UAS' and does not describe renewal.

    Worth knowing

    Automatic — no separate application once the FAFSA is completed. UAS publishes NO dollar figure for this award (only 'partial costs of on-campus housing'), so no merit amount can be quoted. DISPLACEMENT TRAP: the page states that if your housing is covered by third-party funding, this award is removed.

  2. UA Scholars Award (statewide University of Alaska award administered at UAS)$15,000 total ($1,875 per semester for eight semesters)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    UA Scholars Award (statewide University of Alaska award administered at UAS)

    $15,000 total ($1,875 per semester for eight semesters)

    Published award termsAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for UA Scholars Award (statewide University of Alaska award administered at UAS)

    Who qualifies

    Alaska high-school students in the top 10% of their class at the end of junior year, as determined by their school; selection is made by the school. Preferred acceptance deadline June 30, 2026; final deadline August 15 or the award permanently expires.

    How to keep it

    Distributed at $1,875 per semester across eight semesters 'provided the Scholar remains eligible.'

    Worth knowing

    This is a University of Alaska SYSTEM award (not UAS-specific) usable at any UA campus including UAS; it is not awarded by an academic-stats application but by class-rank selection at the high school. Effectively automatic for selected students.

  3. Alaska Performance Scholarship (statewide award administered at UAS)Up to $7,000 per year (Level 1), $5,250 per year (Level 2), or $3,500 per year (Level 3)AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Alaska Performance Scholarship (statewide award administered at UAS)

    Up to $7,000 per year (Level 1), $5,250 per year (Level 2), or $3,500 per year (Level 3)

    Variable or qualified amountAll published eligibility conditions still apply. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    Level 1: 3.5; Level 2: 3.0; Level 3: 2.5 (high-school GPA, or qualifying ACT/SAT/WorkKeys scores)
    SAT
    Qualifying test-score path available
    ACT
    Qualifying test-score path available
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Alaska Performance Scholarship (statewide award administered at UAS)

    Who qualifies

    Initial eligibility set by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education / high school; continuing eligibility tracked by UAS

    How to keep it

    Usable for up to eight semesters; to keep it at UAS you must maintain a 2.5 GPA and complete 24 credits the first year, then a 2.5 GPA and 30 credits per year afterwards. The FAFSA must be submitted each year before June 30 to use the APS.

    Worth knowing

    A STATE of Alaska award (Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education), not a UAS institutional scholarship, but UAS administers and disburses it. Amounts are 'up to' the level ceiling. UAS's own page states the credit/GPA renewal terms; the dollar tiers are published by the state APS provider.

Lights up against Alaska Southeast's published cutoffs. Not an award offer; confirm with the financial aid office. Award terms and residency rules change; some awards differ for in-state and out-of-state students. Always confirm at the school’s source page.

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The fine print

Outside awardsDifferent aid types are displaced differently

Alaska Southeast treats loans, work-study, and institutional grant under different rules. The same $5,000 outside award can land against any of them depending on category.

What makes Alaska Southeast different

UAS itself publishes almost no institutional merit dollars — its automatic Chancellor's Award only covers 'partial' on-campus housing with no stated amount — so the real, quotable merit money for Alaska students comes from two statewide awards UAS administers: the $15,000 UA Scholars Award and the Alaska Performance Scholarship (up to $7,000/year).

Merit tiers33 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

Published academic criteria

Start with the thresholds.

These awards are recorded as automatic on academic criteria. Match the published grades and scores, then check residency, entering year and every additional condition.

  1. Match the published criteria

    Use all requirements together, including residency and the entering class.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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What families often miss

  1. UAS publishes NO dollar amount for it — it only 'covers partial costs of on-campus housing' for the first year, and only if you actually live in on-campus housing. It is not tuition money and not a number you can budget against.

  2. The scholarship page states plainly: if your housing is covered by third-party funding, the Chancellor's Award is removed. A housing voucher from an outside source can erase this award.

  3. February 15 is the deadline to apply (and, for need-based awards, the FAFSA window is October 1–February 15) to be considered for UAS Foundation scholarships for the following academic year.

  4. UAS deliberately does NOT print one total — its 2025-26 budget lists tuition $6,372, fees $1,584, books $1,400, on-campus housing $6,600, food $7,392, transportation $1,852, and personal $6,062 separately. Tuition alone is a fraction of the full on-campus budget, and the figures are estimates that vary by living situation.

  5. The quotable merit money here — UA Scholars and the Alaska Performance Scholarship — is for Alaska high-school graduates. Non-Alaska students should instead weigh the Alaska Unlocked in-state-tuition initiative and WUE rates rather than counting on UAS-specific merit awards.

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Who this school may work for

Alaska high-school students — especially top-10%-of-class graduates and those who hit the state's 2.5/3.0/3.5 GPA performance tiers — who can stack the statewide UA Scholars and Alaska Performance awards on UAS's in-state tuition. Out-of-state students get almost no UAS-specific merit and should weigh WUE/Alaska-Unlocked tuition instead.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $31,262 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Alaska Southeast, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$9,955
$30,001–$48,000$6,799
$48,001–$75,000$14,510
$75,001–$110,000$18,946
$110,001+$19,373
All income levels (average)$12,357

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23
$7,056
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23
$20,640
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$12,357

That works out to roughly a 41% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $21,043 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Alaska Southeast 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
28%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
76%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$19,111 (~$203/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$48,475
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
29%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
20%
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If your student brings another scholarship

UAS publishes no general institutional stacking grid, but it does publish one hard displacement rule: the Chancellor's Award is REMOVED if your on-campus housing is covered by third-party funding. The statewide UA Scholars and Alaska Performance awards are commonly used together with in-state UAS tuition, but UAS does not publish a formal rule for how an outside scholarship reduces other UAS aid.

Confirmed displacement: third-party funding that covers housing cancels the Chancellor's Award (a housing-targeted award). No published rule was found describing how a general outside/private scholarship displaces the UA Scholars Award, the Alaska Performance Scholarship, or need-based aid at UAS. Treat all amounts as 'up to' ceilings that can be reduced to avoid over-award.

Source

Other Alaska Southeast scholarships worth checking

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

AmountAmounts not published in the pages reviewedEligibilityAwarded for academic achievement, leadership potential, extracurricular involvement, and/or financial need; matched through the UA 'Awarded' scholarship portal.

Apply by February 15 to be considered for the following academic year. If financial need is a requirement, file the FAFSA between October 1 and February 15. Specific named amounts are not posted on the scholarship landing pages reviewed — the family must check the Awarded portal for live opportunities.

Source

Alaska Southeast merit aid FAQ

  • What is the scholarship deadline at UAS?

    February 15 is the deadline to apply for UAS Foundation scholarships for the following academic year. For need-based awards you must file the FAFSA between October 1 and February 15. The Alaska Performance Scholarship requires a FAFSA each year before June 30; the UA Scholars Award has a preferred acceptance deadline of June 30 and a final deadline of August 15.

  • Is the Chancellor's Award automatic, and how much is it?

    It is automatic for new full-time students with a 3.50+ GPA who live in on-campus housing and have completed the FAFSA — no separate application. But UAS does not publish a dollar amount: it only covers 'partial costs of on-campus housing' for the first year, and it is removed if a third party covers your housing.

  • How much is the Alaska Performance Scholarship at UAS?

    It pays up to $7,000/year (Level 1, 3.5 GPA), $5,250/year (Level 2, 3.0 GPA), or $3,500/year (Level 3, 2.5 GPA), as set by the state of Alaska. To keep it at UAS you must maintain a 2.5 GPA and complete 24 credits your first year, then 30 credits per year afterward, and file the FAFSA each year before June 30.

  • Can I get the $15,000 UA Scholars Award at UAS?

    Yes if your Alaska high school selected you for being in the top 10% of your class at the end of junior year. It pays $1,875 per semester for eight semesters as long as you remain eligible, and is usable at any University of Alaska campus including UAS.

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How Alaska Southeast compares

  • 32 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use mixed displacement.

    Alaska Southeast is in the small minority (32 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Alaska Southeast 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 Alaska Southeast’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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