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Tomorrow’s bold ideas need today’s big dreamers

You Can Make A UC Degree their Reality.

UC's students have the passion and the potential to impact the world, and you can help them realize their dreams. By supporting scholarships, you ensure that deserving students have the opportunity to attend UC and go on to make a meaningful difference in the world.

Without your support, many of our students would not be able to attend UC or stay enrolled each semester.

Scholarships break down barriers for students with financial need who might not otherwise be able to seek a college degree. Your gift today helps fill the gap between financial aid packages and scholarship awards.

Together, by supporting scholarships, we can provide more students than ever with opportunities and empower our next leaders to succeed at UC and beyond.

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UC Fund for Scholarships

The UC Fund for Scholarships provides need-based funding for qualified students. The funds are intended to supplement the financial aid package, not replace aid students have been awarded via other scholarships, grants and loans. Without financial aid, thousands of Bearcats would be unable to attend UC.

You Can Be the Reason

You can be the reason that students like Josh are able to follow their dreams. There are many students who need help filling the financial gap as they begin or continue their UC journey. Combined with the support of other champions, you provide Josh, and students like him, with the resources needed to achieve their goals beyond their time at UC.

Scholarships have been essential in helping me further my academic and career goals. My dream is to one day be a college athletic director and being a UC student has given me the opportunity to gain real-world experience working in sports management. Thanks to generous donors who have supported my scholarships, I am able to focus on academics and work to make my goals a reality.
— Josh King, Class of 2022
My scholarship lifted my financial stress of paying for my education alone. Without scholarship support, I wouldn’t have been able to take advantage of opportunities on UC’s campus that have shaped me as a student and a person. UC donors are the reason that I can focus on my studies and UC experience. I know I will be excited to give the same support to future students once I graduate.
— Kiley Gawronski, Class of 2023

You Can Provide Opportunities

At UC, Kiley is actively seizing opportunities to shape her future. Changing circumstances are creating financial hurdles for current and prospective Bearcats like Kiley. To ensure that they can pursue their dreams, your support for scholarships is vitally important.

You Can Empower Our Next Leaders

When you support scholarship recipients like Michael, you are supporting our next leaders— the generational trailblazers, big-picture problem-solvers and global innovators that our world needs. Scholarship support encourages the best and brightest prospective Bearcats across the globe to choose Cincinnati.

Without my UC scholarship, I wouldn’t be the leader I am today. I have been able to take advantage of the high-caliber education in conjunction with real-world learning opportunities. The donors who made my scholarship possible have illustrated to me what it really means to be Boldly Bearcat.
— Michael Brown, Class of 2023
At UC, I am developing my skills as a nurse so that once I graduate I can provide education and aid to minority and marginalized populations. Community and public health are important to eliminating the many health disparities that currently exist.
— BrieAnna Reedus, Class of 2022

You Can Shape the UC of Tomorrow

At UC, we’re driven by next: Thinking bolder and dreaming bigger to create the tomorrow we envision, today. BrieAnna has the ideas and limitless potential that can shape the university and our community. With your support, she has the ability to make discoveries, create and innovate at UC and beyond.