UMKC offers financial aid and scholarships specifically for transfer students that can help ease the cost of the remaining credits needed to complete your degree.

Transfer students who apply for admission and submit or postmark application materials by the scholarship priority deadline of Feb. 15 (Fall semester) or Nov. 15 (Spring semester) will automatically be considered for renewable university scholarships.

Students who have already graduated from high school are not eligible for freshman scholarships but do qualify for other scholarships. Scholarship offers with academic requirements will be reviewed and verified before financial awarding.

Two of the most common scholarships for transfer students are the Chancellor’s Transfer Award and Curators’ Transfer Scholar Award.

Chancellor’s Transfer Award   Curators’ Transfer Scholar Award

As a transfer student who has been in the college game, you know the importance of FAFSA. With the FAFSA, you can apply for loans, grants and work study. Let our UMKC Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships team assist you with optimizing your application to get the most funding to pay for college! 

The FAFSA form is required for many kinds of financial aid and can be completed online.

• The UMKC priority deadline is Feb. 1.
• The UMKC FAFSA code is 002518.

Get help with FAFSA

There are a number of external scholarships that are accepted by UMKC.

Check out these search engines for scholarships and increase the likelihood of finding one or more scholarships perfect for you.

• Cappex
• College Board’s Scholarship Search
• Fastweb
• International Education Financial Aid Scholarship Search
• Peterson’s Scholarship Search
• Sallie Mae’s Scholarship Search
• Sallie Mae’s Graduate Student Scholarship Search
• Scholarships.com
• Scholarship Monkey
• UNIGO