Up to $4,000
National Merit Scholarships
ApplicationRenewable
University of Minnesota Morris · Minnesota
UMN Morris Merit Aid
Multiple scholarship tiers reward strong academics at this public liberal arts college.
Verified Jun 20265 days ago· HX-AUTO
Merit tiers51 automatic on stats
Last verifiedJun 2026Analyst HX-AUTO
Rules that bite at UMN Morris
The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from UMN Morris's own published policy, not generic advice.
- displacementNo published displacement order
UMN Morris'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.
Who this school is for
High-achieving students seeking a small-college experience within the University of Minnesota system; transfer students and Phi Theta Kappa members find especially robust support here.
Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $30,316 for 2026-2027. Source
Institutional merit aid tiers
Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.
$1,500
Phi Theta Kappa Award
ApplicationRenewable
View requirements
Renewal terms
Maintain 2.5 GPA
$1,500
Distinguished Scholars
Application
$4,000–$20,000
Academic Achievement Awards
AutomaticRenewable
- GPA
- 3.25
$3,000–$6,000
Academic Transfer Scholar Award
ApplicationRenewable
- GPA
- 3.25
Requirements & details
Renewal terms
Maintain 2.5 GPA
Outside scholarship stacking policy
The Prairie Scholars Award, Morris Scholars Award, and National Merit Scholarship replace previous scholarship package offers, and National Merit Scholarships cannot be combined with the Prairie or Morris Scholars Award.
The Prairie Scholars Award, Morris Scholars Award, and National Merit Scholarship replace previous scholarship package offers, and National Merit Scholarships cannot be combined with the Prairie or Morris Scholars Award.
Lesser-known scholarships at UMN Morris
Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.
Amount$28,000EligibilityAdmitted students selected as Morris Scholars through the Community of Scholars process are invited to participate in the Honors program starting in their first semester on campus.
AmountFull tuitionEligibilityAdmitted students selected as Prairie Scholars through the Community of Scholars process are invited to participate in the Honors program starting in their first semester on campus.
How UMN Morris compares across our verified dataset
- 199 of 751 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
UMN Morris is in a recognizable cluster (199 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
- 199 of 751 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
UMN Morris is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.
- 669 of 751 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
UMN Morris is one of them. The cohort minority (82 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 UMN Morris’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
- policyUMN Morris stacking policy
- coaUMN Morris cost-of-attendance worksheet
- scholarshipMorris Scholars
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Keep exploring UMN Morris merit aid
- UMN Morris scholarship stacking — Whether outside awards land as upside or quietly displace institutional aid.
- Does UMN Morris displace outside scholarships? — The dollar math on a $5,000 outside award, plus peer schools that handle it differently.
- UMN Morris four-year renewal rules — GPA floors, credit-hour pace, and the renewal cliffs that knock awards out by sophomore year.