NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships
The National Collegiate Athletic Association governs the athletic programs at colleges and universities all over the United States. The NCAA promotes fairness, safety and sportsmanship in college athletics and strives to create athletes who care just as much about their sports as they do about their educations. As part of its mission of creating well-rounded student-athletes, the NCAA offers postgraduate scholarships.
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Function
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The NCAA postgraduate scholarships not only help students pay for the expenses associated with earning a postgraduate degree, the scholarships also honor outstanding student-athletes. The scholarships award students with exceptional academic records and remarkable athletic ability. The NCAA also strives to encourage more student-athletes to pursue advanced degrees by offering them the financial incentive to do so.
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Each year, the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program awards up to 174 scholarships to student athletes, 87 for men and 87 for women. Awards are also divided and awarded by the three sport seasons---fall, winter and spring---with 29 awards given to male fall sport athletes, 29 to female fall sport athletes, 29 to male winter athletes and so on. The one-time scholarships give each winner $7,500 to use toward postgraduate studies. Scholarship money is sent to the winner's graduate school once the NCAA receives confirmation that the student has officially enrolled.
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Process
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To be considered for the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program, a student-athlete must be nominated by his institution's faculty athletics representative, who serves as a liaison between the NCAA and the school. Each school may nominate up to five female and five male student-athletes for each of the three sport seasons---fall, winter and spring. Nominations can be made online through the NCAA website, and each nomination application is made up of five sections to be filled out by the nominator, student-athlete nominee, the student-athlete's head coach, an athletic administrator and one of the student-athlete's professors. Winners are notified through the faculty athletics representatives who nominated them.
Eligibility
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Students must be competing in their last year of collegiate athletics to be eligible for the postgraduate scholarships. Other eligibility requirements include a minimum grade point average of 3.2, membership on a varsity college athletic team, involvement in volunteer and community activities and a commitment to attend a graduate school full or part time following college graduation. Foreign student-athletes also qualify for a NCAA postgraduate scholarship. Multiple-sport athletes may be nominated for each of their sports, but may only receive one scholarship.
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