Scholarships for Idaho Students
Calling Idaho Students!
The State of Idaho has scholarships and grants for you.
Introducing Idaho LAUNCH at 果冻传媒麻豆社. A grant for Idaho students to train in high-demand careers.
Applications for the Idaho LAUNCH program are now open, through April 15, 2025. High school students are highly encouraged to apply early. Initial applications are due Nov. 30, 2024.
Idaho LAUNCH
Idaho LAUNCH is a grant program that provides students a one-time opportunity to have 80% of the tuition and fees at an eligible institution covered, up to a maximum amount of $8,000. With approximately 75 million dollars available for Idaho LAUNCH funding, it is possible for this program to offer between 9,000 and 10,000 awards per year!
Students can receive up to one-half of the initial grant award in the first year of a program. However, for programs that are less than 12 months in length, students can use the full awarded amount (80% of tuition and fees up to $8,000) in one year.
- Idaho LAUNCH application opens: October 1
- Initial applications due: November 30
- Contingent Award letters sent by: December 31, March 31 and May 31
- Idaho LAUNCH application closes: April 15
- Graduate from an Idaho High School or equivalent
- Be an Idaho resident
- Be enrolled in or have applied to an in-demand career program at University of Idaho
- Begin enrollment by Fall Semester after graduation
- Complete a Career Pathway Plan or equivalent
- Review the approved list of eligible in-demand careers
Idaho LAUNCH funds can help fund at U of I. The current list of approved careers has been provided by Next Steps. Here are the degrees that qualify:
- Accounting
- Advertising
- Agricultural Education
- Agricultural Science, Communications and Leadership
- Agricultural System Management
- Agriculture Commodity Risk Management
- Animal and Veterinary System
- Applied Finance
- Art
- Biochemistry
- Biological Engineering
- Biology
- Biotechnology and Plant Genomics
- Broadcasting and Digital Media
- Business Administration
- Business Economics
- Career and Technical Education
- Chemical Engineering
- Child Development
- Climate Change and Solutions
- Communication
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Conservation Biology
- Criminology
- Crop Science and Management
- Cybersecurity
- Early Childhood Education
- Earth and Spatial Sciences: Geography and Global Sustainability
- Earth and Spatial Sciences: Geological Sciences
- Earth and Spatial Sciences: Hydrology and Climate
- Economics
- Electrical Engineering
- Elementary Education
- Enterprise Systems Integration
- Entomology
- Environmental Science
- Exercise, Sport and Health Sciences
- Finance
- Fire Ecology and Management
- Fire Safety
- Food and Nutrition
- Food Science
- Forestry
- Forest and Sustainable Products
- Geographical Information Systems
- Geology
- Global Disease Ecology
- Horticulture and Urban Agriculture
- Industrial Technology
- Interior Architecture and Design
- Journalism
- Management and Human Resources
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Sciences
- Microbiology
- Music
- Music Education
- Music Performance: Instrumental
- Music Performance: Keyboard
- Music Performance: Vocal
- Natural Resources Enterprise Management
- Nutritional Science
- Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Organizational Sciences
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Relations
- Rangeland Ecology and Management
- Recreation, Sport and Tourism Management
- Robotics Systems
- Sales Management
- Secondary Education
- Sociology
- Statistics
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Technical Program Management
- Technical Workforce Training
- Theatre Arts
- Water Science and Management
- Wildlife Sciences
The Financial Aid team is available to help with your Idaho LAUNCH questions.
Phone: 208-885-6312
Toll-free: 1-888-884-3246
Fax: 208-885-5592
Email: finaid@uidaho.edu
For more specific LAUNCH questions, reach out to Idaho Workforce Development Council:
Phone: 208-488-7575
Email: idaholaunch@wdc.idaho.gov
What's next?
Step 1: Apply to University of Idaho
Step 2:
Step 3: Submit your FAFSA
Step 4: Become a Vandal!
Other Funding
Is the Idaho LAUNCH grant not for you? The may be what you're looking for.
Idaho Opportunity Scholarship
The Idaho Opportunity Scholarship is awarded to Idaho residents who have graduated, or will graduate, from an Idaho high school, Idaho home school or who pass a GED/HSE test in Idaho. This scholarship is available to both new and renewal students.
The Idaho Opportunity Scholarship awards up to $3,500 per academic year and is renewable for up to four years.
- Application Opens: Oct. 1
- Initial applications due: Nov. 30
- Round 1 Contingent Offers* sent via email: Dec. 31
- Deadline to submit FAFSA: March 1
- Application closes: March 1
- Round 2 Contingent Offers* sent via email: March 31
- Official Offers sent via email: by mid-April
*Contingent offers are NOT final until the State Board of Education:
- Verifies your 2024-25 FAFSA submission and;
- Ranks all applications based on need (FAFSA) and merit (GPA).
- Have an unweighted, cumulative GPA of at least 2.7
- Be an Idaho resident
- Graduated or will graduate from an eligible Idaho high school, Idaho home school, or its equivalent (GED/HSE from Idaho)
- Must attend during the upcoming academic year (fall semester)
- Must pursue a first bachelor鈥檚 degree
- Complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by March 1
- Must attend University of Idaho