Scholarships

The UNT Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships (formerly the Office of Postgraduate Fellowships) assists undergraduate and graduate students in identifying and pursuing externally funded research and study opportunities. UNT has a proud history of award winners and the Office on Nationally Competitive Scholarships stands ready to help UNT students successfully navigate the preparation and application process for Nationally Competitive Scholarships such as Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, James Madison, Harry S. Truman, Andrew W. Mellon, and National Science Foundation scholarships and fellowships.

Learn More about National Scholarships

 

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All Honors College Scholarship offers initiated in the Eagle Scholarship Portal have been made for the 2025 - 2026 academic year.

The Honors College utilizes the Eagle Scholarship Portal (ESP) for our academic year departmental scholarships. The Honors College scholarships awarded in the ESP are for the upcoming academic year and the amount awarded is provided half in the fall and half in the spring semester. The scholarships are only awarded for the one year. All scholarships are competitive and have a limited number of recipients each year. Meeting the general criteria is not a guarantee of scholarship, but you will be considered by the committee for the scholarship. Honors College Scholarships in the ESP are minimally $1,000 for the academic year, the offered amount will be in the scholarship notification and may exceed $1,000.

Dates given are prior to the academic year of the award (prior to the award year). For example, for an award year of Fall ‘25- Spring ‘26 (next academic year), a deadline of March 1 means March 1, 2025.

General Requirements:

• Meet the academic performance standards of the UNT Honors College with regards to GPA and participation in Honors coursework
• Complete the General Scholarship Application (GSA) in the ESP by March 1 prior to award year (https://unt.academicworks.com/)
• Indicate on the GSA you are a member in good standing of the Honors College. If you are accepted into the Honors College after completing the GSA, update the answer to this question by updating your GSA and resubmitting. Failure to indicate your Honors College membership on the GSA will result in ineligibility for Honors College Scholarships listed in the ESP, regardless of acceptance into the Honors College
• Complete the Honors College Additional Application in the ESP
• Maintain full-time enrollment

Honors Coursework Requirements:

Students must also meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Enroll in and successfully complete at least 6 hours during academic year, including at least one Honors course in your initial Fall semester as an Honors Student, or
• Complete the required coursework for your Honors College Award, or
• Have a plan of study on file with the Honors Advising Office

Acceptance of Honors College Scholarships in the ESP:

Notification of Award Offer: Email sent to student's UNT email account
General Notification Timeline: late April or early May prior to the award year*
How to Accept: Log into ESP and accept award agreeing to scholarship criteria
Acceptance Timeline: By May 31 prior to the award year*
Failure to Accept: Offer will be revoked if not accepted by May 31*

*Honors College Transfer Scholarship and First Time in College (FTIC) offers do not fall within these dates. Please refer to the specific section on these scholarships for the relevant timeline.

 

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URF Application will open TBD Spring 2026

About the URF

The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) is an opportunity for students who wish to conduct guided research in their field of study, to gain invaluable experience, credentials, and a faculty champion. Students may apply this spring semester to earn a 2027-2028 URF Placement.

The URF rewards students who enter—and show promise of significantly contributing to—faculty-led research environments. Such research will occur in a host of settings—whether in labs, or under individual faculty mentorship. The URF is a campus-wide opportunity open to undergraduate students of all majors.

Students, in joint petition with their professorial research mentors, will undertake competitive application for a URF. If accepted, Undergraduate Research Fellows will spend the academic year participating in research under the guidance of their identified faculty mentor. URF participants will receive a $500 award after presenting their research at the Scholars Day event in the Spring semester of the participating academic year.

Students may reapply for an Undergraduate Research Fellowship on a yearly basis and can earn up to four such awards during their undergraduate career.

Application Processing

While the URF is a campus-wide opportunity, the processing of submissions occurs within the Honors College (students do not need to be Honors College members to apply). Because different disciplines define research and creative expression in varied ways, criteria for admission into research endeavors will remain under the auspices of our several colleges and individual departments.

Students and their research mentors will be notified of the URF application outcome in the summer before the 2027-2028 academic year.

Course Credit (Optional)

The URF program does not require participants to take a corresponding course. If participants wish to earn course credit for their URF participation, they must pursue that option via other departments.

Applicants who are members of the Honors College may choose to earn Honors College course credit for their URF participation by submitting a proposal to join a Honors Mentored Research course (HNRS 2996/3996) for the fall 2026 and/or the spring 2027 semesters. Applicants who are accepted to the URF, who also requested to be enrolled in a section of HNRS 2996/3996 Mentored Research in their URF application, will be contacted by the Honors College with instructions on how to submit that proposal. Please note that students will be responsible for the tuition cost of the course.

For more details about earning Honors College credit for the URF, please reach out to HonorsCollege@unt.edu .

Summary of Eligibility

• Applicants must be UNT undergraduate students, who will not graduate prior to May2027.

• Incoming first-year TAMS students who have not yet started a semester at UNT are ineligible.

• In cases where faculty mentors already have grants to cover the cost of student assistants, the student may become an Undergraduate Research Fellow, but without further remuneration.

• Students are ineligible if they have already earned three Undergraduate Research Fellowships.

Fellowship Requirements

• URF recipients must consistently participate in their research project, in accordance with the expectations set by their listed research mentor, for the entirety of the 2027-2028 academic year.

• 2027-2028 URF winners must present their research, in the form of a poster presentation, an oral presentation, or a brief performing-arts production (when applicable), on UNT Scholars Day in Spring 2027.

• Specific expectations of participation will be communicated by the student's research mentor. Continuation of the fellowship will depend on the mentor's assessment of the student's commitment and efficiency.

• Students will lose their URF if they switch research mentors following the application period or if they fail to communicate on a regular basis with their research mentors. Only if a research mentor leaves UNT, or if health-related matters prevent mentors from continuing to supervise their students, will students gain permission to switch mentors or projects.

• Research mentors may terminate mentorship at any time if they are dissatisfied with the student’s performance.

Application Requirements

• In collaboration with their faculty research mentor, students must submit a 100-150 word statement describing their research project.

• Faculty mentors must participate in the upload application process, indicating their willingness to mentor the student for the 2027-2028 academic year and confirming information relative to the project's IRB, IACUC, and IBC status. This form will be automatically emailed to the listed mentor at the time of the student's application submission. The mentor deadline is Friday, May 1st for the URF Mentor Form . Applications missing a mentor form by the mentor deadline may be disqualified.

URF Application will open TBD Spring 2026

 

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Honors College Study-Abroad Scholarship

The Honors College provides a limited number of scholarships to Honors College undergraduate students who have been accepted into a UNT (preferably an Honors College) study-abroad summer program. Scholarships will be a minimum of $1,000 but may be more depending on available funds.
Applicants must include a PDF of a letter, email, or screenshot of confirmation of acceptance to the program at the time of application for the summer scholarship. Applicants must also be able to demonstrate how the study-abroad program will advance the student’s major or minor fields of study, or enhance the student’s vocational prospects via broadened cultural exposure.
Application Opens: Friday, first week of the Spring semester
Submission deadline: March 15

The application for the Honors College Study-Abroad Scholarship will open the first week of classes in Spring 2026

Honors College Summer Research Scholarship

The Honors College will award a limited number of $4,000 Summer Research Scholarships to encourage your participation in varied research environments under the guidance of a faculty mentor. To qualify, you must not be graduating prior to May 2027 and you will be responsible for locating a professor who is willing to supervise new or ongoing research during the 10-week summer session (Dates TBA).

The Honors College Summer Scholarship is $4,000, spread over 2 payments intended to help meet summer expenses. Beyond this, research hours are not compensated.

Additional Details and Application

 

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If you encounter any unusual circumstances that prevent you from meeting the criteria for a scholarship, you may complete an Honors College Scholarship Appeal form. Completing an appeal form with UNT Financial Aid does not provide an appeal for an Honors College departmental scholarship.

Please accept the award and then file an appeal. Do not delay acceptance while waiting on an appeal decision or offer may be revoked. Appeal forms must be submitted within 15 days of notification of award or renewal of scholarship. Appeals are reviewed after the acceptance deadlines and start of the semester.

Format of Appeal Personal Statement

In no more than 500 words, your appeal statement should contain:

1. Explain concisely the ruling that you are appealing with regard to a specifically named scholarship
2. If appealing because you plan to fall short of the minimum number of credit hours in which you should be enrolled (in order to be eligible for a scholarship),
   1. stating the acceptable number of credit hours expected to be taken under normal circumstances;
   2. stating the reduced number of credit hours that you are appealing to take for a specified semester (name the semester and year); then
   3. explaining why those fewer hours provide adequate grounds for an appeal.
3. Articulate at least two reasons that might be lodged against the appeal
4. Close by reiterating why your appeal supersedes those reasons.

Credit Hours:

As many (if not most) scholarship appeals originate because students fail to meet semester-credit-hour requirements, the committee will not approve exceptions, short of those which pertain to documented medical need from medical professionals, or to a reduction in coursework for students who are in their last semester of study and who need fewer than 12 semester credit hours to graduate. We will also consider external activities that are integral to one's major field of study and that may therefore necessitate enrollment in fewer credit hours during a given semester.
In accord with HIPPA privacy laws, physician letters will attest in only general terms to the need for a student to enroll in fewer classes. No specifics should appear in the letter.

Complete the Honors College Scholarship Appeal Form Here

 

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