CS Scholars

The University of Illinois Chicago Computer Science Department is offering scholarships to incoming Computer Science freshman and transfer students. These scholarships will support recipients' unmet financial need up to $10,000 a year for up to four years ($40,000 maximum) providing continued funding each year for students making satisfactory academic progress.

These scholarships are targeted towards financially needy undergraduate students who are underrepresented within Computer Science: women, African-American, Latino, and Native Americans. Scholarship recipients must be US citizens, permanent residents, nationals, or refugees.

As CS Scholars accepted students will be given opportunities to work with mentors and will be given access to internships and university research opportunities. CS Scholars will benefit from a special summer preview orientation and regular activities with other CS Scholars.

Applications are available online beginning September 2009 (see below).

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Next Steps

You must apply and be accepted into UIC to be considered for a CS Scholars scholarship. The amount of financial need will be determined through the FAFSA (see below). Note that these applications and forms listed below may all be filled out at the same time. You don't need to be accepted before filling out the FAFSA and CS Scholars forms.

  1. Fill out the online application and be admitted to the University of Illinois Chicago. Be sure to declare Computer Science as your major. Computer Science at UIC is within the College of Engineering.
  2. Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Financial Aid (FAFSA)
  3. Fill out the online CS Scholars application. You will be asked for a personal statement and a teacher recommendation.
  4. Register online and attend a Spring 2010 CS Open House for an in-person interview.

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Funding for this program is provided by the National Science Foundation S-STEM Program (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Award DUE-0850213. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
 
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