Virginia International University (VIU) offers a unique opportunity to acquire an excellent, multi-disciplinary education at an affordable cost by offering students access to scholarships. VIU has been attracting individuals who take their VIU experiences into their own cultures, share their knowledge with future generations, and launch successful careers. Thus, there are several different types of scholarships available based on exemplary personal skills, academic achievement, extracurricular participation, on-campus work, and residency.
Types of Scholarships and Eligibility
- Current, prospective, and returning students are eligible to apply.
- Students who attend classes on campus must be enrolled in any graduate and undergraduate program as full-time students in order to be considered for scholarships.
- ESL students can register for part-time or full-time classes and still be considered for Scholarships.
Scholarship Awards are applied towards tuition fees ONLY. For more detailed information, check the tab RULES.
Students must apply for admission to Virginia International University, or be currently enrolled as full-time students, before they can be eligible to apply for any scholarship.
Application steps
To apply for a scholarship, students must follow these steps:
- New students: Apply for admissions at VIU
- Browse the scholarship opportunities
- Choose up to two types of scholarship
- Review the requirements for the scholarship application
- Apply online (applicant portal or student portal)
- Upload your documents via applicant portal or student portal.
Once the application form and all the supporting documents are received, students will receive a confirmation email.
Document Submission:
- All submissions must be scanned, color copies of the original document. Samples of these documents may include transcripts, diplomas, certificates, and test scores. Photocopies are NOT considered acceptable documentation.
- If any document is issued in the applicants’ native language, they must provide both the original document and a translation of the document in English. Translated documents must be notarized.
VIU has the right to request original documentation. Submission of fabricated or false documents will result in disqualification from future scholarship application.
Scholarship Rules and Regulations
- Application
- Students who are awarded a scholarship must reapply each year if they want to be considered for the scholarship for the next academic year. There is no guarantee that the scholarship will be awarded for the following year.
- Students are eligible to apply for up to two scholarship types, but they will be eligible to receive only one scholarship per academic year.
- Scholarship application period opens six times a year (Spring I Spring II, Summer I, Summer II, Fall I and Fall II) for selected types of scholarships.
- All documents must be received by the application deadline. Incomplete applications will automatically be denied.
- Academic merit holds the highest weight in the review of most scholarship applications. In the case of a tie, the committee will rely on this hierarchy to make their award decision.
- New students must submit their transcripts to admissions before applying for the scholarship program.
- Cumulative GPA can be rounded one decimal place for eligibility requirements.
- VIU has the right to request original documentation. Submission of fabricated or false documents will result in immediate dismissal of the application and will disqualify the individual from applying to the scholarship program in the future.
- Documents submitted for application purposes will not be returned to the applicant.
- Applicants should submit scanned copies of originals.
- Applicants who have not yet been accepted to the university may also apply to the scholarship program. However, scholarship award will be applied upon enrolment.
- In case a student who was awarded a scholarship does not enroll in any course for one of the semesters which the scholarship could be applied, he/she will not receive the tuition credit for that term, or apply the credit to another term. However, the scholarship will still be valid for until its expiration.
- Scholarships are awarded as credit towards tuition only. The award amount will be divided into installments; the credit will be deducted from the total tuition charged for each semester.
- Students who are awarded scholarships during their last semester cannot apply the full awarded amount to one semester; only half of the scholarship amount will be applied to their last semester of studies.
- Students who were awarded the Leadership and Mentorship Scholarship during their last semester of study will be able to apply their scholarship award to any undergraduate or graduate program if they decide to return to VIU within 12 months.
- Scholarships cannot be awarded to applicants who receive other types of scholarship funding from academic collaborations, institutions, or government.
- Students receiving Financial Aid are still eligible to apply for scholarships.
- There is no guarantee that a scholarship will be awarded solely because the applicant meets the requirements, eligibility, and/or fulfilment of the scholarship criteria. All applicants should submit their application and follow proper procedures.
- Type of attendance and eligibility:
- On-campus students must be enrolled full time in one of VIU’s degree programs. For the Scholarship Program, it is considered full-time a student who:
Undergraduate Program:
- On-campus students must be enrolled full time in one of VIU’s degree programs. For the Scholarship Program, it is considered full-time a student who:
- Takes 4 on-campus, or a combination of on-campus and online, undergraduate courses in the Spring and Fall; (Students who apply for reduced course load must be enrolled in at least 3 courses)
- Takes 2 on-campus, or a combination of on-campus and online, undergraduate courses in each of the Summer I or Summer II terms; (Students who apply for reduced course load must be enrolled in at least 2 courses)
Graduate Program:
- Takes 3 on-campus, or a combination of on-campus and online, graduate courses in the Spring and Fall; (Students who apply for reduced course load must be enrolled in at least 2 courses)
- Takes 2 on-campus, or a combination of on-campus and online, graduate courses each in the Summer I or Summer II terms. (Students who apply for reduced course load must be enrolled in at least 2 courses)
- Fully Online students might be enrolled part-time or full-time in one of VIU’s degree programs. For the Scholarship Program, it is considered full-time online student who takes at least 2 online (undergraduate or graduate) courses per term.
- Intensive ESL Program students might be enrolled part-time or full-time. For the Scholarship Program, it is considered a full-time ESL student who takes 140 hours of ESL (20 hours per week) courses per term.
- After being awarded a scholarship, students will be invited to participate in marketing campaigns for the Scholarship Program. Students will be asked to authorize the use of their pictures, videos, and testimonials about the scholarship award and their experience at VIU.
- Student must keep the requirements for the scholarship which they applied for in order to receive the scholarship for the subsequent semester.
- Students must be in good standing with accounting office in order to receive any scholarship award.
- Students who apply for Campus Employment scholarship will be automatically granted the award if eligibility requirements are met.
- VIU has the right to retrieve the amount awarded for the Campus Employment scholarship within 30 consecutive days if a student resigns or is let go from the position.
- Scholarship awards are non-transferrable.
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