Financial barriers remain one of the most significant challenges for underrepresented students from different communities, especially those from Hispanic communities, pursuing their STEM degrees. That’s why SHPE offers thousands of reasons to ensure their members DO reach graduation—over a million dollars to be exact. With more than 1,500 scholarships awarded since 2018 totaling over $6,000,000, SHPE is actively opening pathways in the STEM education pipeline for out members.
Who? YOU!
Overview
ScholarSHPE provides opportunities for:
- Graduating high school seniors beginning a STEM undergraduate career at a community college or 4-year university.
- Undergraduate students pursuing a degree in STEM at any stage of their undergraduate career. Students must be enrolled full-time at a community college or 4-year university.
- Students or professionals pursuing technical certificates or graduate-level professional education that increase their professional competencies with select institutions.
- Graduate students pursuing a master’s or doctoral STEM degree program at an accredited university.
How to Apply for 2026-2027 academic school year
Congratulations on taking another step toward advancing your academic career and giving the world what it needs—more talented STEM professionals from all communities, including Hispanics. The next application period opens on February 2nd for the 2026-2027 academic school year.
To apply to any of our scholarships, you must first complete our ScholarSHPE Common Application. This will allow you to easily apply to multiple scholarship opportunities without having to start every application from the beginning.
Scholarship Requirements*
Our minimum requirements for all scholarships are as follows:
- Active SHPE Member (To become an active member, please click here!)
- Minimum Cumulative GPA: 2.5 (This is a cumulative GPA as listed on the transcript of your latest academic institution.)
- Plan to pursue a STEM degree
- Plan to enroll at an accredited two-year or four-year college/university for the 2026-2027 Â academic year in the United States*
NOTE: Some sponsored scholarships may have additional requirements or specifications; these requirements will be listed on the ScholarSHPE application page.
* Includes ALL U.S. territories
Key Dates
Application opens: February 2, 2026 Â
Application closes: February 16, 2026
Review period: March – June
Notifications begin:
Corporate funded scholarships will be announced from July-SeptemberÂ
SHPE funded scholarships will be announced from December – JanuaryÂ
Latest ScholarSHPE Recipients
Sponsors
MTSI | NISSAN NEIGHBORS | TRACE3 – UNIDOS ERG
Cycle
Citizenship?
Class Standing
Major
ScholarSHPE Webinar Series
To support our students with preparing winning ScholarSHPE applications, we offer a webinar series every Spring.
FAQs
To sponsor a named corporate ScholarSHPE, please complete this commitment form. Once completed please email it to [email protected].
Sponsoring a scholarship is a tangible way to help students who are struggling with day-to-day financial challenges—something more than half of undergraduates and nearly half of graduate students say they face. Many students also report worries about food insecurity and housing insecurity, highlighting the real-life impacts of those financial burdens. By funding a scholarship, you empower these students to focus on their education and personal growth instead of how they’ll cover their basic needs.
To contribute to our ScholarSHPE fund, please donate here.
- Must be an active SHPE Member
- Maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA
- Be a declared STEM major to qualify for application to our SHPE Scholarships.
- A list of all qualifying STEM degrees can be found here. If your major is not listed and you would like to know if your major qualifies as STEM, please send us a separate email with your major, type of degree (i.e. Bachelor of Science, Master in X, Ph.D. in X), and the course requirements for degree completion; and, we will evaluate your degree for STEM qualification.
- SHPE funded scholarships are open to all active SHPE members that meet our basic requirements listed above. Citizenship is NOT required for SHPE scholarships. However, some of our sponsor funded scholarships do require citizenship and this is explicitly stated as a requirement in our Scholarship Offerings located here.
Currently we have a few offerings that are available to high school seniors. This means that you may apply in February of your senior year of high school. This application would be for scholarship awards that would be granted in your freshman year of college should you be selected.
- Please reference the timeline listed above for ScholarSHPE award dates.
- SHPE processes scholarship payments electronically via bill.com. If you are a ScholarSHPE recipient, you will receive instructions in late November to provide your banking information to ensure timely electronic payments.
Previous SHPE Recipients
Thank you to our ScholarSHPE sponsors!
