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Welcome to the Wayne State College Scholarship Opportunities Homepage. Below you will find a listing of scholarships available to Wayne State students with brief information about the scholarship qualifications. Many of these scholarship opportunities will not require additional information, as you will automatically qualify based on your application information.

Instructions for Incoming Freshmen: please log in with your WSC user name and password to complete this supplemental scholarship application to be considered for additional opportunities beyond your admission-based scholarship. Please note, the WSC incoming freshmen scholarship application opens August 1, 2025 with a priority deadline of December 1, 2025 for many new incoming freshmen scholarships and a final deadline of May 1, 2026.

Instructions for Returning WSC/Incoming Transfer Students: please log in with your WSC username and password to complete the WSC returning/incoming transfer student scholarship application which opens October 1, 2025 with a final deadline of February 1, 2026.

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Opportunities Table
Award Name Actions
Varies Paul Cook Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be an education major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Paul Jonathan Ewald Jorde Pre-Med Scholarship
Applicant must be a pre-medicine major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
$4,000, renewable for 4 years President's Commitment
Admissions-based scholarship awarded to select incoming freshmen...
Deadline05/01/2026
$5,000, renewable for 4 years President's Excellence
Admissions-based scholarship awarded to select incoming freshmen...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Quality Foods Annual Scholarship
Are you an employee of Quality Food Center/IGA of Wayne Nebraska?...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Ray K. & Marjorie L. Dover Memorial Fund
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rebecca McClain Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be an elementary...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Richard "Dick" Poehling Community Scholarship
Applicant must be from Valley NE or Neligh, NE. Applicant must be a new...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Richard and Bonnie Lund Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be an education...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Riessen-Reed Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman. Applicant must be a graduate Osmond...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Robert and Josiane Reinhardt Journalism Endowed Scholarship
Student must be majoring in Journalism. Applicant must be a new freshmen.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Robert and Ruth Harm Olsen Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be an english major Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Robert B. Ensz Wayne State College Endowed Scholarship
Awarded to an incoming freshman who has graduated from Beatrice High...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Robert Jordan Scholarship
Applicant must be a business major. Applicant must be from Wayne County...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Robert M. and Helen A. Lehr Pre-Nursing Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be a freshman State of residence Major
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rod Jorgensen Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman. Applicant must be a graduate of Wayne...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rod Varilek Scholarship
Award alternates between a biology major (2019-2020) and a business...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rollie W. Ley Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Ron and Kathy Fink Memorial Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be an education major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Ronald G. Carlson Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be from Sioux City Iowa or South Sioux City, Nebraska....
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rose and Nola Peterson Family Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman. Applicant must be a graduate of...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Ruby V. Pedersen ""Excellence in English"" Scholarship
Applicant must be a humanities major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Rudolph D. Swartz Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be a Nebraska native. Applicant must be an education...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies S. Edwin Jones-Kay Corporation Scholarship - Humanities
Applicant must be a humanities major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies S. Edwin Jones-Kay Corporation Scholarship - Business
Applicant must be a business major. Applicant must be an undergraduate...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies S.K deFreese Campus Ministry Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Sandra L. Metz Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be a new freshman....
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Sayre Andersen - Gilbert Vaughan Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be an english major...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Science, Math & Technology Endowed Scholarship in Honor of the Stammer Family
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be a Physical...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Stanley and Mildred Griffith Fields Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be a Nebraska or Iowan native. Applicant must be a new...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies State Nebraska Bank & Trust Scholarship
Applicant must be a business major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Steve Srb Education Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be an education major Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Steven and Marysz Rames Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Susan and George Menking Endowed Psychology Scholarship
Applicant must be a Psychology major. Applicant must be a new freshman....
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Sweeney Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be an elementary education majors. Applicant must be...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies The Beacom and Demke Family Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be a new freshman....
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Theodore and Mary Dohrman Scholarship
Applicant is new freshmen. Applicant must have a 25 or higher ACT.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Ursula Wriedt Klatt Endowed Scholarship Awarded in Honor of the four Wriedt Children: Frances, Inez, Ursula, and Cecil
Applicant must be an education major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Victor P. and Amy L. Morey Memorial Scholarship
Applicant must be an education major. Applicant must be a new freshman....
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Walter and Lucille Peterson Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be an elementary education major. Applicant must be a new...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Walter G. Ingram Scholarship
Applicant must be a science major. Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Warren A. Cook Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be enrolled full time. Applicant must be a first...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Wayne Rotary Club Endowed Scholarship
Applicant must be a full-time enrolled incoming freshman that has...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Webber Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
Applicant must be a mathematics and mathematics majors. Applicant must...
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Wildcat Annual 2 Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Wildcat Annual 4 Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman. Academic Preparedness Score
Deadline05/01/2026
Varies Wildcat Annual Scholarship
Applicant must be a new freshman.
Deadline05/01/2026
$1,000, renewable for 4 years Wildcat Commitment
Admissions-based scholarship awarded to select incoming freshmen...
Deadline05/01/2026
$0.00 Wildcat Legacy Scholarship
Freshman student enrolled full-time.
Deadline05/01/2026
$1,000, renewable for 2 years. Wildcat Promise
Admissions-based scholarship awarded to select incoming freshmen...
Deadline05/01/2026