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Wilkes scholarships and merit aid

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Posted price$42,764per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

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

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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.

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  1. Spark Scholars Award$4,000–$5,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Spark Scholars Award

    $4,000–$5,000

    Published rangeNot 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
  2. Legacy Scholarship$1,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Legacy 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
  3. Sibling Discount$1,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Sibling Discount

    $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
  4. Hometown Advantage Award$500–$2,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Hometown Advantage Award

    $500–$2,000

    Published rangeNot 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
  5. Dean Scholarship$21,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Dean Scholarship

    $21,000

    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
  6. Provost Scholarship$24,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Provost Scholarship

    $24,000

    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
  7. Berks County Connection Scholarship$2,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Berks County Connection Scholarship

    $2,000

    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
  8. Lehigh Valley Loyal Scholarship$2,000Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Lehigh Valley Loyal Scholarship

    $2,000

    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

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What makes Wilkes different

Wilkes rewards regional ties, family connections, and transfer students who excel academically.

Merit tiers8See who qualifies
First-year students with school awards11%First-year students, CDS 2025-2026 (school-estimated)
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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Who this school may work for

Students with ties to the Berks County or Lehigh Valley areas will find strong support here. Transfer students and those with family legacies at Wilkes also benefit from dedicated awards.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $42,764 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Wilkes, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$25,062
$30,001–$48,000$23,440
$48,001–$75,000$26,432
$75,001–$110,000$27,843
$110,001+$31,638
All income levels (average)$27,743

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$43,496
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$27,743

That works out to roughly a 51% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $56,765 (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
63%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$26,000 (~$276/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$63,454
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
43%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
78%
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More school data

From the Wilkes Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated figures):

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Wilkes’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.
11%of admitsget merit
Average award$28,097Covers ~66% of $42,764 cost of attendance

At Wilkes, roughly 1 in 9 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $28,097 — about 66% of total cost.

As filed in Wilkes's CDS Section H2A: of 560 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 61 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $28,097. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 173 of 1,885, averaging $26,326. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

The 2025-2026 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.

Receive institutional merit11%First-year students, Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated)
Average merit award$28,097Across recipients, Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

Source: Common Data Set 2025-2026 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Wilkes scholarships worth checking

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

Amount$2,000EligibilityThe Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship is awarded to transfer students who are members of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, in addition to the transfer scholarship listed above; proof of PTK membership must be submitted with the admission application, and the award is $2,000.

Source

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How Wilkes compares

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

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

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