Scholarship Opportunities

Texas Graduate Tuition Set-Aside Grants

Next Step Scholarship

Next Step Scholarship Now Open for Summer 2025 East Texas A&M Graduates!

• Next Step Senior Scholarship - The Next Step Senior Scholarship is a one-time $1000 non-competitive scholarship available for new graduate students.  You must have have received your bachelor's degree from East Texas A&M one semester prior to graduate admissions.  For more details, please review the link.
• Next Step Doctoral Scholarship - The Next Step Doctoral Scholarship is a one-time $1000 non-competitive scholarship available for new fully admitted doctoral students. You must have have received your graduate degree from East Texas A&M one semester prior to doctoral admissions.  For more details, please review the link.

Graduate Scholarship Applications

Students may see information and apply for the scholarships listed below by accessing the scholarship portal through the student's myLeo portal.  

• Keith & Nancy McFarland Scholarship
• H. M. Lafferty Doctoral Scholarship
• Jerry & Marilyn Morris Scholarship
• J. Cullen Sowers Graduate Scholarship
• Graduate Fellowship Endowment
• Nancy Ruth Lenoir Memorial Endowment
• Drs. Wilfred and Bobbie Dietrich Endowment
• Multi-Cultural Alumni Endowment

Fellowships

Summer Thesis/Dissertation Fellowship - The Graduate School has limited funds to support summer fellowships on a competitive basis for master's, specialist, and doctoral students who are in the final stage of completing their thesis or dissertation. These fellowships are for students who plan to spend the majority of the summer completing their thesis or dissertation and plan to graduate at the end of the summer or fall semester.  See link for further requirements.

Other

Quick Start Grant - The Quick Start Grant is a renewable $250 or $500 grant for East Texas A&M graduate students employed by school districts, community colleges, or Texas cities or counties. 

Stop-out Grant - The Stop-out Grant is a one-time $500 grant for A&M-Commerce graduate students who have stopped out of their graduate program for one year or more and are returning to complete their graduate coursework.

TRIO Grant - The TRIO Grant is a renewable $250 or $500 grant for A&M-Commerce graduate students who were members of a TRIO program.

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