What is the deadline for Wsu Foundation Scholarships?

WSU Foundation Scholarship deadlines for first-year and transfer students are Round 1 from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1 at 11:59pm and Round 2 from Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 at 11:59pm.

Winona State University · Minnesota

Winona State scholarships and merit aid

Winona State offers merit awards across academics, arts, athletics, and more for a wide range of student backgrounds.

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Is Winona State worth a closer look?

Winona State is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 7 published awards, and 4 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers74 based on grades or scores

Research checkedJun 2026By our research team

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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.

$1,500

International Presidential Honors Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

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$1,000

Transfer Scholarships

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.35

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$500

Academic Awards

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3

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$1,000

Phi Theta Kappa Scholarships

Apply separately

GPA: 3.5

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$1,000–$3,500

Presidential Honor Scholarships

Based on grades or scoresCan continue

GPA: 3.3

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How to keep it

Maintain 3.75 GPA

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$350–$2,000

Equity And Inclusion Awards

Apply separately

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$2,500

Workforce Development Scholarship

Apply separately

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Rules that could change the answer

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

Renewal rulePresidential Honor Scholarships: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Maintain 3.75 GPA A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

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Who this school may work for

Strong academic performers, transfer students, international applicants, and those with specialized talents in areas like the arts or athletics will find targeted scholarship opportunities here.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $8,933 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Winona State, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$10,224
$30,001–$48,000	$11,792
$48,001–$75,000	$13,814
$75,001–$110,000	$17,871
$110,001+	$21,307
All income levels (average)	$17,503

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $10,576
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $17,308
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $17,503

That works out to roughly a 26% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $23,683 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Winona State 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: 57%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 79%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $21,500 (~$228/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $58,532
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 26%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 57%

How to read these numbers

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

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

Academic Program Specific Awards

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAcademic Program-Specific Awards vary in amount and are awarded based on academic potential.

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Intercollegiate Athletics

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityIntercollegiate Athletics scholarships vary in amount and are awarded based on skill.

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Music Art And Theatre Awards

Amount$300–$3,000EligibilityMusic, Art & Theatre Awards range from $300-$3,000 and are awarded based on audition.

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Winona State merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Wsu Foundation Scholarships?
WSU Foundation Scholarship deadlines for first-year and transfer students are Round 1 from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1 at 11:59pm and Round 2 from Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 at 11:59pm.

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How Winona State compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Winona State 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 Winona State’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceWinona State cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersInternational Presidential Honors Scholarship

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