University of Minnesota Morris · Minnesota

UMN Morris scholarships and merit aid

Multiple scholarship tiers reward strong academics at this public liberal arts college.

Verified Jul 20262 months ago

The short answer

Is UMN Morris worth a closer look?

UMN Morris is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 5 published awards, and one is based on those numbers.

Merit tiers51 based on grades or scores

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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.

Up to $4,000

National Merit Scholarships

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$1,500

Phi Theta Kappa Award

Apply separatelyCan continue

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How to keep it

Maintain 2.5 GPA

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$1,500

Distinguished Scholars

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$4,000–$20,000

Academic Achievement Awards

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.25

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$3,000–$6,000

Academic Transfer Scholar Award

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GPA: 3.25

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How to keep it

Maintain 2.5 GPA

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Rules that could change the answer

These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from UMN Morris's published information.

Outside awardsNo 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.

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Who this school may work 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.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $30,316 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at UMN Morris, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$1,694
$30,001–$48,000	$4,126
$48,001–$75,000	$3,213
$75,001–$110,000	$9,445
$110,001+	$16,262
All income levels (average)	$8,837

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $14,526
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $16,710
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $8,837

That works out to roughly a 67% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $27,039 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

UMN Morris 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: 63%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 74%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $18,995 (~$201/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $50,919
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 36%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 40%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not UMN Morris's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not UMN Morris's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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If your student brings another scholarship

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.

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Other UMN Morris scholarships worth checking

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

Morris Scholars

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.

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Prairie Scholars

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.

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How UMN Morris compares

133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
UMN Morris 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.
133 of 749 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.
665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
UMN Morris 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 UMN Morris’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Policy pageUMN Morris stacking policy
Cost of attendanceUMN Morris cost-of-attendance worksheet
Scholarship pageMorris Scholars

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