University of Montevallo · Alabama

University of Montevallo scholarships and merit aid

Montevallo rewards academic distinction, leadership, and honors program participation across a range of scholarships.

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The short answer

Is University of Montevallo worth a closer look?

University of Montevallo is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 7 published awards, and 6 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers76 based on grades or scores

Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

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 you landAutomatic merit aid by ACT compositeEach bar marks the ACT score range that qualifies for the tier.

Presidential Honors Scholarship$9,000

ACT 30SAT 1360 · GPA 3

Freshman Leadership Scholarship$6,000

ACT 27SAT 1260 · GPA 3

Academic Recognition Scholarship$4,500

ACT 24SAT 1160 · GPA 3

Not on this ladder: Out Of State Scholarship, Freshman Achievement Scholarship, Distinguished Alumni Scholarship, Montevallo Academic Leadership Scholarship — application required, holistic, or scored on a different axis.

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Tier	ACT composite	Award
Presidential Honors Scholarship	30	$9,000
Freshman Leadership Scholarship	27	$6,000
Academic Recognition Scholarship	24	$4,500

$9,000

Presidential Honors Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3
SAT: 1360
ACT: 30

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Up to $12,480

Out Of State Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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$6,000

Freshman Leadership Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3
SAT: 1260
ACT: 27

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$1,500

Freshman Achievement Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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Amount not published

Distinguished Alumni Scholarship

Apply separately

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$2,500

Montevallo Academic Leadership Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.25

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$4,500

Academic Recognition Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3
SAT: 1160
ACT: 24

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Who this school may work for

High-achieving students with strong academics, leadership experience, or interest in honors programs will find the most opportunities here. Out-of-state students also have a dedicated pathway.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $12,510 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at University of Montevallo, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$14,471
$30,001–$48,000	$16,104
$48,001–$75,000	$18,615
$75,001–$110,000	$20,357
$110,001+	$21,873
All income levels (average)	$17,683

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $13,948
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $26,968
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $17,683

That works out to roughly a 35% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $27,398 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

University of Montevallo 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: 54%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 73%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $24,000 (~$254/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $42,957
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 40%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 54%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not University of Montevallo'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 University of Montevallo'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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Other University of Montevallo scholarships worth checking

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

Program Student Travel Grants

AmountUp to $500EligibilityHonors Program Student Travel Grants award up to $500 for academic conference participation and travel costs for eligible Honors students.

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Sabia Family Legacy Endowed Scholarship For Honors Students

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Sabia Family Legacy Endowed Scholarship for Honors Students is awarded annually to select returning students in the Honors Program.

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Ruby S And John P Ansley Honors Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Ruby S. and John P. Ansley Honors Scholarship is awarded annually to select students in the Honors Program.

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Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against University of Montevallo’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceUniversity of Montevallo cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersPresidential Honors Scholarship
Merit tiersDistinguished Alumni Scholarship

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