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Warner Pacific scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$43,390per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Warner Pacific is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 3 published awards, and one is based on those numbers.

Where does your student land?

Verified Jul 2026
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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. Warner Pacific Scholarship (merit GPA grid)$1,000-$5,000AutomaticRenewable
    Published awardAcademic thresholds

    Warner Pacific Scholarship (merit GPA grid)

    $1,000-$5,000

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

    GPA
    3.5+: $5,000; 3.0-3.49: $3,500; 2.75-2.99: $1,000; below 2.75: $0 (unweighted cumulative, high school or transfer)
    RenewableCheck the conditions
    Open award details for Warner Pacific Scholarship (merit GPA grid)

    Who qualifies

    Must be admitted to the traditional undergraduate program, enroll full-time, and be working toward a first bachelor's degree

    How to keep it

    Automatically renews each year for up to four years (eight semesters), as long as the student maintains satisfactory academic progress and is enrolled full-time.

    Worth knowing

    Spring-start students receive HALF of the annual amount in their first year. BSN-pathway students must complete at least 45 credits at Warner Pacific before becoming eligible for institutional merit scholarships.

  2. Need-Based Scholarship$3,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Need-Based Scholarship

    $3,000

    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 Need-Based Scholarship

    Who qualifies

    Student Aid Index (SAI) between -1,500 and 10,000, determined by FAFSA, ORSAA, or WPU Need Application

    How to keep it

    Complete the FAFSA, ORSAA, or WPU Need Application each academic year to determine eligibility.

    Worth knowing

    Need-gated, not merit — included because it is part of WPU's core institutional scholarship package alongside the merit grid.

  3. City Builders Scholars$2,500Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    City Builders Scholars

    $2,500

    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 City Builders Scholars

    Who qualifies

    Competitive program for 10 undergraduate students — diverse emerging leaders committed to community service; recipients act as university ambassadors (orientation, career fairs, community events)

    How to keep it

    Received each academic year the student attends Warner Pacific, for up to four years.

    Worth knowing

    The City Builder application for the 2026-27 award year is now CLOSED; it reopens for the 2027-28 award year.

Lights up against Warner Pacific'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

Renewal ruleWarner Pacific Scholarship (merit GPA grid): renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out

Automatically renews each year for up to four years (eight semesters), as long as the student maintains satisfactory academic progress and is enrolled full-time. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

Outside awardsDifferent aid types are displaced differently

Warner Pacific 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 Warner Pacific different

Warner Pacific (Church of God-affiliated, Portland OR) keeps merit simple: a published three-band GPA grid topping out at $5,000, plus a $3,000 SAI-gated need scholarship, a $500/semester church match, and a $2,500 City Builders community-leadership cohort — on one of the lowest private tuitions in the region (~$24,850 with fees).

Merit tiers31 based on grades or scores
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

More than one award path

Separate the two paths.

Some awards use published academic thresholds. Others have different selection criteria. A score chart does not describe every award at this school.

  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. The published grid is explicit: unweighted GPA '2.749 – 0' receives $0. The merit floor is 2.75.

  2. 'Spring-start students receive half of the annual scholarship amount in their first year; the full annual amount begins in the first full academic year.'

  3. 'Students who enter the BSN pathway must successfully complete at least 45 credits at Warner Pacific to be eligible for institutional merit scholarships' — only federal/state/need-based support applies before that.

  4. The Church Matching Scholarship (up to $500/semester) requires the church's contribution to be 'received by the 10th day of each semester' — late checks don't get matched.

  5. 'The City Builder application for the 2026-27 award year is now closed' — it reopens for 2027-28. Only 10 students receive it, and it carries ambassador service obligations.

  6. The $3,000 Need-Based Scholarship requires an SAI between -1,500 and 10,000 documented by FAFSA, ORSAA, or the WPU Need Application 'each academic year' — no application, no award.

  7. Renewal requires maintaining satisfactory academic progress AND full-time enrollment for up to four years (eight semesters).

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Who this school may work for

Budget-conscious students who want a small Christian university with low sticker price; a 3.5 GPA earns the top $5,000 award, and families under an SAI of 10,000 add $3,000 more.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $43,390 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Warner Pacific, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$18,577
$30,001–$48,000$27,432
$48,001–$75,000$23,495
$75,001–$110,000$30,169
$110,001+$32,393
All income levels (average)$25,629

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$22,220
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$25,629

That works out to roughly a 34% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $38,948 (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
49%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
92%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$25,000 (~$265/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$55,204
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
59%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
68%
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If your student brings another scholarship

Treatment of outside scholarships explicitly differs by aid type or program; see the sourced policy excerpt for the split.

Verified policy language (2026-07-02): Warner Pacific's External Resources Policy: External resources will be applied first to any remaining unmet financial need. If a student's demonstrated financial need has already been met with federal, state, and/or University resources, this additional funding will reduce your need-based federal financial aid. If a student's need-based federal financial aid must be reduced, the reductions occur in the following order: Federal Direct Subsidized Loan, Federal Work-Study, and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG). Warner Pacific Scholarships will be reduced in a financial aid package only if the total amount of external resources combined with University grant and/or scholarship assistance exceed the student's cost of attendance budget.

Source

Other Warner Pacific scholarships worth checking

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

AmountUp to $500 per semester (match of church contributions)EligibilityAny student whose church contributes toward their education; contribution must be received by the 10th day of each semester; open to part-time and second-bachelor's students

WPU provides a downloadable letter to send to churches.

Source

AmountAmount not published (minimums 'similar to Warner Pacific Scholarship amounts')EligibilityStudents on intercollegiate athletic teams; contact the coach

Source

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityEmployees of partner organizations (Centennial, David Douglas, Gresham Barlow, Parkrose, Reynolds school districts; Dress for Success; Kairos PDX; Volunteers of America)

Contact financialaid@warnerpacific.edu.

Source

Warner Pacific merit aid FAQ

  • How much merit aid will I get at Warner Pacific?

    From the published grid: $5,000/yr with a 3.5+ unweighted GPA, $3,500 at 3.0-3.49, $1,000 at 2.75-2.99, and $0 below 2.75. It renews automatically for up to eight semesters with SAP and full-time enrollment.

  • Is there a scholarship application or deadline?

    No separate application or deadline is published for the merit grid — it is based on the GPA in your admission record. The City Builders application for 2026-27 has closed; the church match requires contributions by the 10th day of each semester.

  • What does Warner Pacific cost for 2026-27?

    The published 2026-27 standard budget for dependent traditional students totals $43,390 — tuition and fees $24,850, living expenses $15,668, plus books ($70 — rental/digital books are included in tuition), personal, transportation, and loan fees.

  • Can I get both the merit and need-based scholarships?

    The page presents them as separate awards (merit by GPA; $3,000 need-based by SAI) without stating a combination limit, but no explicit stacking policy is published — confirm with the financial aid office.

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How Warner Pacific compares

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

    Warner Pacific 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.

    Warner Pacific 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 Warner Pacific’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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