Xavier University · Ohio
Cincinnati Jesuit private whose automatic academic awards run $23,000 to $33,000 a year for any admitted student, with a small slate of competitive flagship awards (St. Francis Xavier, Brueggeman Fellows) sitting above the automatic grid.
The short answer
Xavier (OH) is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 2 published awards, and 2 are based on those numbers.
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These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.
Any student who applies for admission is automatically evaluated; no separate application and test scores are not required. Xavier does not publish GPA or test-score cutoffs mapping to a specific award amount within the range.
Renewable for a total of four years or eight semesters of full-time undergraduate enrollment.
For high-achieving Ohio and Greater Cincinnati high school graduates with at least a 3.5 GPA. Awarded as at least $30,000 in annual scholarships.
Renews under the same four-year / eight-semester full-time enrollment framework as Xavier's academic awards.
These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Xavier (OH)'s published information.
Renewable for a total of four years or eight semesters of full-time undergraduate enrollment. A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.
Institutional aid at Xavier (OH) cannot push the package past $74,523. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.
Xavier states the academic awards 'range from $23,000 to $33,000 annually' and that every applicant is 'automatically evaluated,' but it does not publish a stat-banded ladder. Where a given student lands in the range is decided in the admission review, not by a public GPA or test cutoff.
Above the automatic grid sit competitive flagships — the St. Francis Xavier Scholarship and the Brueggeman Fellows Program (up to 8 students per year) — that can add meaningfully to the package. These require selection beyond the standard application, so top applicants should pursue them rather than settling for the automatic award.
Xavier's public undergraduate scholarship pages do not document whether an outside award reduces loans first or offsets the institutional academic scholarship. Because the automatic award is already large relative to tuition, an outside tuition award may displace institutional aid. Confirm with Student Financial Services before assuming dollars stack.
Xavier's core merit aid is fully automatic: 'Any student who applies for admission is automatically evaluated for one of these awards,' and the awards 'range from $23,000 to $33,000 annually' for Fall 2025. Test scores are not required for consideration. The awards are 'renewable for a total of four years or eight semesters of full-time undergraduate enrollment.' Against 2025-26 tuition of $52,430, the top automatic award covers roughly 63% of tuition. Xavier does not publish a stat-banded GPA/test ladder mapping a number to a specific award; placement is decided in the admission review. Above this automatic grid sit a few competitive flagships — including the St. Francis Xavier Scholarship and the Brueggeman Fellows Program (up to 8 students per year) — that require selection beyond the standard application.
Students who want a mid-size Catholic university where a strong application automatically earns a sizable, test-optional academic award. Top applicants who interview well should also chase the competitive flagship and fellowship programs that sit above the automatic grid.
Input year was 2025-2026 (total $52,430 = tuition only); official COA page now publishes 2026-2027 figures, so using the newer official year. Fees combine student activity + ID ($310) and orientation ($305).
Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Xavier (OH), what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.
| Family income | Average net price paid |
|---|---|
| $0–$30,000 | $26,728 |
| $30,001–$48,000 | $28,201 |
| $48,001–$75,000 | $32,175 |
| $75,001–$110,000 | $33,824 |
| $110,001+ | $35,451 |
| All income levels (average) | $32,997 |
That works out to roughly a 50% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $65,476 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).
Previously awarded federal or institutional aid (or the outside scholarship itself) is reduced only when adding the new scholarship would cause total aid to exceed cost of attendance, or when accepting it would violate the outside provider's own award terms; the published policy does not describe different treatment by aid type or program at Xavier.
Verified policy language (2026-07-02): Depending upon the awarding guidelines established by the outside scholarship provider, the scholarship or some other piece of previously awarded federal or institutional aid may have to be reduced if the scholarship causes the COA to be exceeded, or if the awarding of the scholarship causes any of the provider’s terms to be violated.
These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.
No. Xavier states 'Any student who applies for admission is automatically evaluated for one of these awards.' The automatic academic awards range from $23,000 to $33,000 a year, and test scores are not required for consideration.
For Fall 2025 the awards 'range from $23,000 to $33,000 annually' and are 'renewable for a total of four years or eight semesters of full-time undergraduate enrollment.' Against 2025-26 tuition of $52,430, the top award covers roughly 63% of tuition.
Yes. Xavier names competitive flagship awards — including the St. Francis Xavier Scholarship and the Brueggeman Fellows Program (up to 8 students per year) — that sit above the automatic academic grid and require selection beyond the standard application. Confirm current values and deadlines directly with admission, as Xavier's public pages do not publish a fixed dollar figure for the St. Francis Xavier award.
It offers at least $30,000 in annual scholarships to high-achieving Ohio and Greater Cincinnati high school graduates with at least a 3.5 GPA, layered onto Xavier's automatic academic award framework.
Xavier maintains an Institutional Aid Awarding Policy, but its public undergraduate scholarship pages do not state whether outside awards reduce loans first or offset institutional aid. Confirm the reduction order with Student Financial Services (513-745-3142) before counting on stacking.
Xavier (OH) is in a recognizable cluster (235 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
Xavier (OH) 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.
Every claim is checked against Xavier (OH)’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.
