USDA/1890 National Scholars
Official site: https://www.usda.gov/partnerships/1890NationalScholars
Final Deadline: January 31, 2021
The program is a major effort of the United States Department of Agriculture and the eighteen 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant Institutions, to award scholarships to students to attend one of the eighteen universities and study agriculture, food, or natural resource sciences.
Students must be US citizens with a GPA of 3.0 or better entering their freshman year.
The scholarship provides:
- Full tuition;
- Fees;
- Books;
- Room and board for each of the 4 Academic years.;
- Use of a laptop computer, printer, and software while on the scholarship;
- Employment with the USDA during the summer and after graduation;
- Employee benefits while employed with the USDA;
The eighteen Universities are:
- Alabama A&M University
- Alcorn State University, Mississippi
- Central State University, Ohio
- Delaware State University
- Florida A&M University
- Fort Valley State University, Georgia
- Kentucky State University
- Langston University, Oklahoma
- Lincoln University, Missouri
- North Carolina A&T University
- Prairie View A&M University, Texas
- South Carolina State University
- Southern University, Louisiana
- Tennessee State University
- Tuskegee University, Alabama
- University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
- University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
- Virginia State University
- West Virginia State University