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Mount Olive (UMO) scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$44,000per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Mount Olive (UMO) may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
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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. Presidential / UMO ScholarshipUp to $8,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Presidential / UMO Scholarship

    Up to $8,000

    Variable or qualified amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.7 or higher (weighted cumulative high school GPA or cumulative college transfer GPA)
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Presidential / UMO Scholarship

    Worth knowing

    Page states an 'annual combined amount up to $8,000' — the figure is a combined maximum, not a guaranteed flat award. No test score requirement, no renewal terms, and no statement that the award is automatic are published. Same GPA chart applies to transfer students (cumulative college transfer GPA).

  2. Merit / UMO ScholarshipUp to $6,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Merit / UMO Scholarship

    Up to $6,000

    Variable or qualified amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    3.2 or higher (weighted cumulative high school GPA or cumulative college transfer GPA)
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Merit / UMO Scholarship

    Worth knowing

    'Annual combined amount up to $6,000.' Renewal terms and automatic-award status not published.

  3. Leaders / UMO ScholarshipUp to $5,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Leaders / UMO Scholarship

    Up to $5,000

    Variable or qualified amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    2.8 or higher (weighted cumulative high school GPA or cumulative college transfer GPA)
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Leaders / UMO Scholarship

    Worth knowing

    'Annual combined amount up to $5,000.' Renewal terms and automatic-award status not published.

  4. Resident Scholarship$1,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Resident Scholarship

    $1,000

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Resident Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Must live on campus AND receive an academic scholarship

    Worth knowing

    $1,000 per year add-on; conditioned on both living on campus and holding one of the academic scholarships. Commuters do not receive it.

  5. Mount Olive Rotary Endowed Scholarship Fund$4,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Mount Olive Rotary Endowed Scholarship Fund

    $4,000

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    GPA
    2.8 or higher (completed high school)
    SAT
    Minimum 920 (Math and Verbal)
    ACT
    19 or higher
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Mount Olive Rotary Endowed Scholarship Fund

    Who qualifies

    Demonstrated leadership experiences in high school, community, or church organizations; separate application required

    How to keep it

    "$4000 renewable annual up to four years" (renewal conditions beyond the four-year limit are not published).

    Worth knowing

    Separate application (PDF linked from the page) — not automatic. Only UMO award found with published SAT/ACT minimums.

  6. Trojan Alliance Partnership (TAP) Tuition Scholarship10% of tuitionNot automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Trojan Alliance Partnership (TAP) Tuition Scholarship

    10% of tuition

    Published coverage or packageNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Trojan Alliance Partnership (TAP) Tuition Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Must be an employee of a partnering TAP organization; enrolled in any UMO undergraduate or graduate program

    How to keep it

    "Enrolled students in good standing, continuously enrolled, and employed by a TAP Partner remain eligible for the tuition scholarship."

    Worth knowing

    Tuition-only (fees and books excluded) and CANNOT be combined with any other institutional aid, teacher residency licensure rate, or military rate. Application fee waived.

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The fine print

Outside awardsNo published displacement order

Mount Olive (UMO)'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.

What makes Mount Olive (UMO) different

UMO publishes a simple GPA-only merit ladder — Presidential up to $8,000 (3.7+), Merit up to $6,000 (3.2+), Leaders up to $5,000 (2.8+) — that uses the same GPA chart for freshmen and transfers, plus a $1,000 Resident Scholarship add-on for living on campus.

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Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

Selection beyond grades and scores

Start with the selection process.

These awards are not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read each award's selection rules, application steps and dates. Meeting a minimum is not an award offer.

  1. Read the selection rules

    Look for the school's stated criteria and whether an additional application is needed.

  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. The Academic Scholarships page states an 'Annual combined amount up to $8,000' (Presidential), 'up to $6,000' (Merit), and 'up to $5,000' (Leaders). 'Up to' and 'combined' mean these are maximums, not promised amounts; the actual award can be lower. Ask admissions what your specific GPA earns.

  2. No fetched UMO page states that Presidential/Merit/Leaders awards are granted automatically from GPA, and no renewal GPA or terms are published anywhere on the public site. Families should confirm in writing whether the award is automatic on admission and what GPA is required to keep it each year.

  3. The TAP page states the scholarship 'cannot be combined with any other institutional aid, teacher residency licensure rate, or military rate' — taking TAP means giving up the Presidential/Merit/Leaders award, so families must compare which is larger.

  4. TAP 'only applies to tuition (other fees or books are not included)' — fees, room, board, and books are charged at full price.

  5. For traditional students, 'When combined with all other free aid, up to 90% of tuition will be covered' — it is capped at 90% of tuition including all other gift aid, covers tuition only, and nontraditional recipients 'are required to personally pay $200 per class.'

  6. UMO's Financial Aid and Billing page states the priority deadline for incoming students is April 1 (April 15 for returning students) and warns: 'Applications will continue to be reviewed after priority deadlines, but UMO can not guarantee funds after these dates.'

  7. Admission requires a 3.5 cumulative GPA but recipients 'must keep a 3.2 cumulative GPA to keep the scholarship,' must live in Duplin County, attend weekly meetings, and 'must teach in Duplin County for 4 years after graduation to meet funding requirements.'

  8. The Resident Scholarship is 'awarded to students who live on campus and receive an academic scholarship' — commuters and students without an academic scholarship do not get it.

  9. The Departmental Scholarships page sets a 'March 1 Application Deadline' (via UMO-Connect) for agriculture awards for new students, incoming freshmen, and current students — these require applications and are not automatic.

  10. The 2026-2027 Tuition & Fees page total covers tuition, general fees, and room and board, but books are 'estimated to cost $1350 per year,' parking is $100, prices 'do not include NC Sales Tax,' and indirect costs (transportation, personal) are not published.

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Who this school may work for

Students with a weighted high school (or cumulative college transfer) GPA of 2.8 or higher who want a low-sticker-price private option in eastern North Carolina; the same GPA-based scholarship chart applies to transfers, and living on campus adds $1,000 a year.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $44,000 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Mount Olive (UMO), what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Mount Olive (UMO), academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$18,227
$30,001–$48,000$16,066
$48,001–$75,000$20,923
$75,001–$110,000$15,250
$110,001+$21,498
All income levels (average)$18,853

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$27,366
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$18,853

That works out to roughly a 51% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $38,569 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort
52%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$27,209 (~$288/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$47,139
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
48%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
57%
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If your student brings another scholarship

UMO publishes no general stacking or outside-scholarship displacement policy for its academic scholarships. Individual awards carry their own combination rules: the TAP 10% tuition scholarship cannot be combined with any other institutional aid, and the Ministerial Benefit Grant is capped so that all 'free aid' combined covers at most 90% of tuition. The Resident Scholarship explicitly stacks on top of an academic scholarship. Treatment of private outside scholarships is not addressed on any page fetched.

TAP page: 'The scholarship only applies to tuition (other fees or books are not included) and cannot be combined with any other institutional aid, teacher residency licensure rate, or military rate.' Ministerial and Community Grants page (Ministerial Benefit Grant): 'Annual Amount: Traditional Students – When combined with all other free aid, up to 90% of tuition will be covered.' No page fetched states how third-party/private outside scholarships affect UMO institutional awards.

Source

Other Mount Olive (UMO) scholarships worth checking

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

AmountUp to 90% of tuition (combined with all other free aid); Amount not published as a dollar figureEligibilityLicensed or ordained minister within the Original Free Will Baptist Convention; HS GPA equivalent to a minimum 2.5 (US)

Traditional students: 'When combined with all other free aid, up to 90% of tuition will be covered.' Nontraditional students: amount varies by need and other grant aid; eligible students are required to personally pay $200 per class. Application PDF required.

Source

Amount$3,000 freshman/sophomore years; $6,000 junior/senior yearsEligibilityMust live in Duplin County; 3.5 cumulative GPA for admission; keep a 3.2 cumulative GPA to keep the scholarship; April 1 priority deadline

Service obligation: 'Must teach in Duplin County for 4 years after graduation to meet funding requirements.' Must participate in weekly scholarship meetings and other activities. Separate application.

Source

Amount$500-1,500EligibilityArt or graphic design major; portfolio review; maintain full-time status and a 2.5 cumulative GPA; participate in departmental events

Award amount based on portfolio review.

Source

AmountUp to $3,000EligibilityFull-time UMO student; audition required; letter of recommendation; maintain a 3.0 GPA in music courses overall

'Up to $3,000 renewable annually up to four years.' Demonstrate outstanding talent, academic ability, and good character.

Source

Amount$500 to $2,500 for the academic yearEligibilityFull-time UMO student; audition required; must register for and actively participate in a UMO ensemble; take an applied course during the semester(s) of the award

Amount determined by music faculty based on audition; dependent on the need of the ensemble.

Source

Amount$1,100/yearEligibilityIncoming freshmen studying agriculture; minimum 3.0 GPA; interview by the Kornegay scholarship committee; March 1 application deadline via UMO-Connect

All UMO agriculture scholarship recipients must maintain active UMO Collegiate FFA membership and complete community service/fundraiser requirements each semester.

Source

Amount$1,200/yearEligibilityUMO sophomores-seniors in agriculture; minimum 3.0 GPA; March 1 application deadline via UMO-Connect

Subject to the agriculture-program FFA membership and service conditions.

Source

Amount$1,000/yearEligibilityUMO sophomores-seniors in agriculture; minimum 2.5 GPA; March 1 application deadline via UMO-Connect

Subject to the agriculture-program FFA membership and service conditions.

Source

Amount$500/yearEligibilityMinimum 2.5 GPA; active involvement in FFA; March 1 application deadline via UMO-Connect

Subject to the agriculture-program FFA membership and service conditions.

Source

Mount Olive (UMO) merit aid FAQ

  • What is the scholarship deadline at University of Mount Olive?

    UMO publishes no separate application deadline for its Presidential/Merit/Leaders academic scholarships. The FAFSA priority deadline is April 1 for incoming students (April 15 for returning students), and UMO 'can not guarantee funds after these dates.' Departmental deadlines differ: agriculture scholarships have a March 1 application deadline via UMO-Connect, and the Homegrown Teacher Academy Scholarship has an April 1 priority deadline.

  • Do I need SAT or ACT scores for UMO's academic scholarships?

    No test scores are listed for the Presidential (3.7+ GPA, up to $8,000), Merit (3.2+ GPA, up to $6,000), or Leaders (2.8+ GPA, up to $5,000) scholarships — they are keyed to weighted cumulative high school GPA or cumulative college transfer GPA. The Mount Olive Rotary Endowed Scholarship ($4,000/year) does require a minimum SAT (Math and Verbal) of 920 or ACT of 19, plus a 2.8 GPA and an application.

  • Do transfer students get merit scholarships at UMO?

    Yes. The same Academic Scholarships chart applies to transfers: each tier lists 'Weighted Cumulative High School GPA / Cumulative College Transfer GPA,' so a transfer with a 3.7+ college GPA qualifies for the Presidential tier (up to $8,000), 3.2+ for Merit (up to $6,000), and 2.8+ for Leaders (up to $5,000).

  • Can I combine the TAP employer tuition scholarship with a UMO academic scholarship?

    No. The Trojan Alliance Partnership 10% tuition scholarship 'cannot be combined with any other institutional aid, teacher residency licensure rate, or military rate,' and it applies to tuition only (fees and books excluded).

  • How much does UMO cost for 2026-2027?

    Per the official Tuition & Fees page for the 2026-2027 academic year: Full-time Resident Student $44,000 and Full-time Commuter Student $30,150 (tuition $14,450 per semester, general student fee $625 per semester, resident room and board $6,925 per semester). Books are estimated at an additional $1,350 per year, and prices do not include NC sales tax.

  • Is there an extra scholarship for living on campus?

    Yes — the Resident Scholarship is $1,000 per year, 'awarded to students who live on campus and receive an academic scholarship.'

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How Mount Olive (UMO) compares

  • 133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.

    Mount Olive (UMO) 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.

    Mount Olive (UMO) 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.

    Mount Olive (UMO) 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

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