Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) is gift assistance funded by the federal government and awarded by ULM. The FSEOG is for undergraduates with exceptional financial need, and low Expected Family Contribution (EFC). Priority is given to students with who receive Federal Pell Grants.
Eligibility Criteria:
- You must meet all of the eligibility criteria required for receipt of federal aid including SAP.
- You must qualify for the Federal Pell Grant
- You need to have filed your FAFSA by ULM's priority deadline date of April 1, 2009.
Funds are very limited. The amount of the award is based on need and the availability of funds.
Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program (LEAPP)
LEAPP awards are available only if funding is approved annually by the Department of Education.
Eligibility Criteria:
- You must meet all of the eligibility criteria required for receipt of federal aid including SAP
- You must be a US resident
- You must be a Louisiana resident
- You must be a full-time undergraduate student
- You must maintain a cumulative 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale
- Beginning freshmen qualify with an average score of at least 45 on the General Education Development (GED) test, or an ACT composite of at least 18, or a minimum 2.0 high school GPA
- You need to have filed your FAFSA by ULM's priority deadline date of April 1, 2009.
Funds are very limited. The amount of the award is based on need and the availability of funds.
Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG)
A grant that is given to first and second year students who have taken a rigorous high school curriculum and have not been enrolled previously in an undergraduate program.
Eligibility Criteria for First-Year Students
- You must be a US citizen or an eligible non-citizen
- You must be Federal Pell Grant eligible
- You must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in a first-year, two- or four-year degree granting undergraduate program
- You must have graduated high school after January 1, 2007
- You must have completed a rigorous secondary school program established by a State or local educational agency that is recognized as rigorous by the Secretary of Education.
- You cannot previously been enrolled in a program of undergraduate education.
The first-year award amount is $750
Eligibility Criteria for Second-Year Students
- You must be a US citizen or an eligible non-citizen
- You must be Federal Pell Grant eligible
- You must have graduated high school after January 1, 2006
- You must have completed a rigorous secondary school program established by a State or local educational agency that is recognized as rigorous by the Secretary of Education.
- You must have at least a 3.0 GPA (or the equivalent as determined by regulation) at the end of the first academic year.
The second-year award amount is $1,300
National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant
(National SMART Grant)
A grant given to third- and fourth-year students pursuing a degree in math, science, technology or certain foreign languages, who maintain at least a 3.0 in the classes required for that major.
Eligibility Criteria:
- You must be a US citizen
- You must be Federal Pell Grant eligible
- You must be a third- or fourth-year student pursuing a major in the physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, technology, or engineering (as determined by regulation) or in a foreign language that is critical to US national security.
- You must also have a 3.0 GPA (or the equivalent as determined by regulation) in coursework required for the designated qualifying major
The third- and fourth-year award is $4,000 each year.
GO GRANT
Eligibility Criteria:
- You must be admitted and enrolled as a certificate or degree-seeking undergraduate as either a first time freshman or aged 25 or older and not having enrolled in a college or university in credit bearing courses for at least two consecutive semesters
- You must be Pell eligible
- You must be a Louisiana resident
- You need to have filed your FAFSA by ULM’s priority deadline of April 1, 2009.
