Merit Scholarships
Elms College offers more than 100 private scholarships, grants, and discounts to students, some of which are based on financial need, and some of which are based on academic achievement. A partial list of these awards includes:

Presidential Scholarship - $6,000 to $12,000 per year
Offered to our strongest applicants admitted directly from their senior year in high school with superior academic records.

Elms Scholarship - $1,000 to $6,000 per year
Offered to applicants admitted directly from their senior year in high school who have distinguished themselves through outstanding academic work.

Transfer Elms Scholarship - $1,000 to $8,000 per year
Offered to our strongest transfer candidates based on G.P.A.

Elms Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship - $6,000 to $10,000 per year
Offered to transfer candidates who are members of Phi Theta Kappa based on G.P.A.

Chicopee Scholarship - $1,000 to 50% tuition per year
Offered to students admitted directly from their senior year from Chicopee High School or Chicopee Comprehensive High School based on their G.P.A.

Diocesan Scholarship - $1,000 to 50% tuition per year
Offered to students admitted directly from their senior year from Cathedral High School, St. Mary High School, Holyoke Catholic High School or St. Joseph Central High based on G.P.A.

Catholic School Grant - $1,000 per year
Offered to applicants admitted directly from their senior year at a Catholic High School outside of the Springfield, Massachusetts Dioceses.

Deanery Award
Deanery Scholarships, equivalent to 50 percent of Elms College tuition, are awarded to at least two students from each of the 10 deaneries within the Diocese of Springfield, based on the students’ involvement in the life of their parishes. Students may be recommended by clergy, diocesan leadership, teachers, parishioners or other adults who can attest to the student’s qualifications.
Application forms are available at Elms College, church rectories, and CCD and youth ministry offices.

Sibling Discount
If a family enrolls more than one dependent undergraduate full-time at the college in any given year, the additional family member(s) enrolled will receive a 25 percent tuition discount during each semester of concurrent matriculation.