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Endowed Scholarships

All students are encouraged to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) every academic year online at www.studentaid.gov and include our Marymount Manhattan College Federal School Code (002769) for consideration of all MMC need-based institutional grants including endowed scholarships. MMC institutional scholarships, grants and combinations of grants are awarded up to tuition costs only, depending on individual need. Changes to enrollment and living arrangements can impact eligibility for MMC scholarships and need based grants/endowments. These awards are not available to be renewed every academic year, as a limited number of students are awarded and receive the endowed scholarship over four years.

  • The George I. Alden Trust Endowed Scholarship: Students who demonstrate financial need.
  • The J. William Bordeau Endowed Scholarship: Given to a theatre major. Renewable as long as the student maintains full-time status as a theatre major with a GPA of at least 3.5.
  • The Gladys Brooks Foundation Endowed Scholarship: Given to incoming first-year students who demonstrate superior academic ability and leadership potential as proven by test scores, grades, recommendations, and extracurricular activities. First-year students must participate in the Emerging Leaders program held during the spring semester of their first year to receive this non-renewable scholarship. Applications become available during the fall semester.
  • The Marie Burke Fund Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Madeleine D. Burns Endowed Scholarship: Female students of a non-traditional age.
  • The Louis Calder Foundation Endowed Scholarship: Students with significant financial need who would otherwise carry a heavy burden of loans with a preference for students residing in the 5 NYC boroughs.
  • The Sister Barbara Carvalho Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Dr. Marvelle S. Colby Endowed Scholarship: Business management or accounting major with a preference given to students who are economically disadvantaged. Student must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  • The Margaret Mary Connolly Endowed Memorial Scholarship: Female graduates of Catholic high schools pursuing a career in teaching who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Ira DeCamp Foundation Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The William L. Doty Endowed Memorial Scholarship: Full-time students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Edgar and Lucky Eisner Endowed Scholarship: Intended to foster serious study of economic issues by attending an educational institution in Europe or Asia. Preference is given to students who have not traveled to Europe or Asia previously. Preference is that arrangements be made for student to stay in a family home during travel. Upon returning, students are required to write a paper that describes his/her experiences and insights from study abroad.
  • The Antonetta Ferraro Endowed Scholarship: Female students only who demonstrate financial need and whose fathers are deceased and mothers are head of household. Intended as a 4-year scholarship to a student (renewable).
  • The Stanley Finkel Endowed Scholarship: A student majoring in business who demonstrates financial need.
  • The First Generation Endowed Scholarship: Students who are the first in their family to attend college and demonstrate great financial need.
  • The Anne C. Flannery Endowed Scholarship: Students who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Desiree L. Franklin Endowed Scholarship: Students who demonstrate financial need. Recipient selected by the President and/or the Finance and Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees.
  • The Samuel Freeman Endowed Scholarship: Students who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Bertram and Marie C. Goodman Trust Endowed Scholarship: Female students majoring in art who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Mary T. Greason Endowed Scholarship: Students majoring in art and who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Sr. Edmund Harvey Fund Endowed Scholarship: Students who are children of alumni. Entering freshman must have a minimum of an 80 average OR college students with a minimum GPA of 2.5. Recipients must be full-time students who maintain a GPA of 2.0 or higher. Re-apply annually for scholarship support
  • The Mary Ellen McNiece Hawn Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Foundation Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Cornelius Heeney Endowed Scholarship: Students from NYC boroughs (with a preference for students from Brooklyn) who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Shirley Heiligman Endowed Scholarship: Returning adult students (with a preference given for female students) who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Marsha Hakim Hewitt Endowed Scholarship:  Indigent students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 (or a GPA improved by .5 or more from the previous semester) who are NOT theatre or art majors.
  • The JM Foundation Endowed Scholarship: Students in the Ruth Smadbeck Communications and Learning Center who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The William Kavanagh Endowed Scholarship: Preference for theatre majors who exhibit financial need and maintain a GPA 3.5 or higher.
  • Theresa Lang Endowed Scholarship: Given to current Marymount Manhattan sophomores, juniors, and seniors who display a pattern of academic excellence (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0) and outstanding community service and/or co-curricular activities. Recipients must participate in the Leadership Scholars program hosted through Student Development and Activities to receive this non-renewable scholarship.
  • The Francine A. LeFrak-Friedberg Endowed Scholarship
  • Full-time female students majoring in communication arts or theatre arts who demonstrate great potential and financial need. Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher during the four-year scholarship. Students must write an essay.
  • The Sr. Dymphna Leonard Endowed Scholarship
  • Freshman students of traditional age who require MMC’s small community to thrive academically and demonstrate financial need. Requires two teacher recommendations
  • The Helen Teresa Lowe Endowed Scholarship
  • Daughters of alumni OR returning women students who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Jacqueline Lynch Endowed Scholarship
  • Returning women students (over the age of 25) who demonstrate financial need and are majoring in the Social Sciences who are enrolled as degree students with at least 6 credits/semester.
  • The Mary Ellen Maher Nix Endowed Memorial Scholarship
  • Art students (preference for female students) who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Louis A. Martarano Endowed Scholarship
  • Applicants whose combined academic histories, personal plans, and community service records are deemed to show leadership and concern for others. Preference will be given to students who have been involved in or supported the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community. Awards will be provided to students who have a strong desire to complete a degree at MMC. Scholarship monies may be applied to pay for education-related expenses such as Marymount Manhattan housing, books, and supplies. Office of Student Affairs conducts the application selection process for a recipient. 
  • The McIntyre Family Endowed Scholarship: Returning adult students or commuter students who demonstrate financial need and academic merit.
  • The Sister Raymunde McKay Endowed Memorial Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Aileen Mehle Endowed Scholarship: Awards for outstanding women writers (or female English majors and/or minors).
  • The Suzanne M. Murphy Endowed Scholarship: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The William C. Musham Endowed Scholarship: Students with an interest in math or science who demonstrate financial need.
  • The E. Walters Neeff Endowed Scholarship: Academically superior students without the means to attend college.
  • The Stavros S. Niarchos Endowed Scholarship: International students who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Maureen Lyons Olson ’79 Endowed Scholarship: Non-traditional students from New York State who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Joan Doty O’Rourke Endowed Scholarship: Full-time students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Helen Perry Endowed Scholarship: Female students who are enrolled in a degree-granting program. African American females over age 25 are encouraged to apply.
  • The Regina S. Peruggi Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship: Returning woman student with significant financial need and academic merit.
  • The Mahony Prowse Endowed Scholarship: Graduates of Catholic high schools in the 5 NYC boroughs who demonstrate financial need.
  • The Muriel D. Quartararo Endowed Scholarship: Preference for commuter students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Peter J. Reyes Endowed Scholarship: Students majoring in political science or international studies who demonstrate financial need. Students must submit an essay to be reviewed by a faculty committee for consideration. Renewable as long as the student maintains a GPA of 3.33 and at least part-time status.
  • The Helena Rubinstein Endowed Scholarship: Women in the honors program.
  • The Sr. Judith Savard Endowed Travel Fellowship: Art or Art History majors. Completion of a minimum of two semesters of full-time study (at least 24 credits) OR (if a transfer student) completed at least one full-time semester at MMC (24 total credits, 12 of which from MMC). Minimum cumulative GPA 3.0. Demonstrates financial need according to criteria established by the Financial Aid Office and the committee. The application consists of the first page of the study abroad application, a statement of purpose, and the names and e-mails of two references, one from the Art & Art History Department and the other from another academic department at MMC.
  • The Mary Anne Schwalbe Endowed Scholarship: Students who are refugees (as demonstrated by U.S. government documentation of asylum status). In the case that no student fits these criteria in a given year, the scholarship will be awarded to the student(s) who most closely match the criteria, such as international students who demonstrate great financial need.
  • The Sr. Regina Shelly Endowed Scholarship: A young woman, enrolled full-time at MMC, demonstrating financial need, who has graduated from a Catholic High School in Brooklyn.
  • The William and Carol Simon Endowed Scholarship: Funds a student or students who have started college but would be unable to finish without financial assistance and who demonstrate academic merit.
  • The Nina Spiegelman Endowed Scholarship: Designated solely for female students over the age of 25 in a degree-granting program, who enroll for a minimum of 6 credits per semester, and who demonstrate financial need. Applicants are required to write a brief essay describing their professional goals, and why they believe a college degree will help them meet these goals.
  • The C.V. Starr Endowed Scholarship Fund: Students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Surdna Foundation Endowed Fund: Students demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Kathleen “Kit” Tamburro ’64 and Carlo H. Tamburro Endowed Scholarship: Students (preference for science majors) demonstrating academic merit and financial need.
  • The Mary T. Waldorf Endowed Fund: Female students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
  • The Fred and Jacqueline Wehman Endowed Scholarship: For students majoring in math or science
  • The Zeuschner Family Endowed Scholarship: Preference for students who transfer to Marymount Manhattan College from a metropolitan New York City area community college and demonstrate financial need and academic merit.
  • The Stephanie E. Kupferman Juvenile Justice Award Endowment Scholarship Fund: Continuing MMC students majoring in political science, with an emphasis in pre-law and /or criminal justice who must demonstrate financial need. Must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher within the major.
  • The Rita Raber Award Endowment Scholarship Fund: Given out annually by the Psychology Department to honor returning students.

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