Financial Aid

Mount Scholarships

The Mount offers scholarships based on academic achievement and grants based on financial need.

Leadership Scholarship

Leadership Scholarships are awarded to matriculating, full-time freshmen who have demonstrated leadership abilities through high school and community experiences. Award recipients will be required to engage in a co-curricular, campus experience in exchange for the leadership scholarship. The total award can be up to $5,500 per academic year.

These campus experiences may include:

  • Student newspaper
  • Campus yearbook
  • Radio station
  • Pep band
  • Event marketing
  • Student Government

All leadership experiences, with the exception of athletic ability or participation, will be considered.  Qualified applicants must be accepted to Mount Saint Mary College.

Please note:  Applications are available from the Admissions office.The application deadline for the 2012-2013 academic year was January 15, 2012.   

Transfer Honors Scholarships

The College will award six full-tuition transfer honors scholarships per academic year to one graduate from each of the following community colleges: Dutchess County Community College, Orange County Community College, Rockland County Community College, Ulster County Community College, Westchester County Community College, and Nassau County Community College. Read more about the Transfer Honors Scholarships

MSMC Academic Scholarships

The Mount is dedicated to rewarding students with outstanding academic qualifications. To learn more about our academic awards, please click here.

MSMC Need-Based Grants

These institutional grants are awarded on a competitive basis and may reflect academic excellence, as well as demonstrated financial need. The level of grant assistance depends upon the quality of the student’s academic record, the amount of financial need, the availability of funds, and full-time traditional enrollment.

Amounts vary based on need and availability of funds and may be renewed as long as the student continues to demonstrate financial need and remains in good academic standing. Renewal requires students to continue to demonstrate financial need, as defined by the FAFSA each year, and maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better.

Donor Scholarships

Mount Saint Mary College offers a number of private scholarships each year.  There is no additional application needed for consideration of these awards. The Admissions application and FAFSA are used to determine eligible recipients based upon criterion established by the donor. 

Donor scholarships include:

  • Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship
  • Robert Andreen Award for Excellence in Information Technology
  • Charles T. Baus Memorial Scholarship
  • Moira Rovere Bayer Memorial Scholarship
  • Sister Frances Berski Award
  • Dieter W. Bussigel Memorial Award for the Arts
  • Orange County Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Business Award
  • Eleonor Depold Memorial Scholarship
  • Lt. Colonel Joseph M. Desch Memorial Scholarship
  • Dr. Lucy DiPaola Memorial Scholarship
  • Dominican Sisters Founders Scholarship
  • Dominican Sisters of Hope Scholarship
  • Dyson Foundation Scholarship
  • Frances G. Egan Scholarship
  • James and Mary Gilhooley Endowed Memorial Scholarship
  • Father Michael J. Gilleece Memorial Scholarship
  • George and Marie Girolame Scholarship
  • Vincent J. Gohring Scholarship Award in Chemistry
  • Gertrude Rowe Haight Memorial Scholarship
  • Bob Hope Scholarship
  • Bernice J. & Walter J. Hornibrook Memorial Scholarship
  • The Mid-Hudson Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants for Excellence in Accounting Scholarship
  • Dr. Hedwig Just Scholarship
  • Roy C. and Marion L. Ketcham Scholarship
  • Norma Jean Lawson Memorial Scholarship
  • Dr. Edith S. Lessor Scholarship
  • Lions Club of the City of Newburgh Scholarship
  • Sister Mary Assumpta Mazza P.B.V.M. Award
  • Sister Mary Assumpta Mazza P.B.V.M. Scholarship
  • Stephen M. McCarthy '00 Award
  • Stephen M. McCarthy '00 Memorial Scholarship
  • Mary Y. and Lawson H. Miller Memorial Scholarship
  • John W. Munday Memorial Scholarship
  • Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation Higher Education Opportunity Endowment
  • Marissa A. Pica '83 Memorial Scholarship
  • Carolyn Rich Memorial Scholarship
  • Joyce Weishaupt Santoro Scholarship
  • Theresa D. Zoleski Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts

Recipients are generally selected on the basis of academic achievement, major, financial need, and/or place of residence.

FINANCIAL AID

Main phone: 845-569-3194
Fax: 845-569-3302
email: finaid@msmc.edu