Redbird Academic Scholarship
The Redbird Academic Scholarship is an award valued at up to $4,000 per year, renewable for up to four years, for new freshmen. Recent recipients have had an average ACT score of 26 and a cumulative high school GPA of 3.8 on a 4.0 scale.
Students who have been admitted for Fall 2012 and are eligible to compete for the Redbird Academic Scholarship will be contacted by the Office of Admissions no later than the end of December. This select group of students will be contacted by mail and email outlining the next steps in the scholarship selection process.
There are several benefits to becoming a student at Illinois State University:
- With a student-faculty ratio of 19 to 1, you’ll get the personalized attention you need to succeed.
- You'll get unlimited access to our new state-of-the-art Student Fitness Center and McCormick Hall complex, as well as the opportunity to become involved in over 300 student organizations.
- For seven straight years Illinois State has ranked in the top 100 public universities in the nation for quality and value according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
- Our graduation rate beats the national average by nearly 15 percent and more than 600 employers come to campus each year looking for interns and employees!
The scholarship application deadline is January 6, 2012.
Awards range from $1,000 per year to $4,000 per year. Award winners will be notified no later than mid-March.
