Awards and Scholarships

As a student, your financial aid is probably one of your foremost concerns when considering different schools and programs. At a per-credit institution like the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, securing financial aid can be especially important to allow you to take the classes you want to without overloading every semester just to keep costs down. Aside from a broad range of other funding resources available to you as a student, the UH-Manoa Economics Department offers several awards exclusive to us, as well as national-level awards for which our students are highly competitive. We hope this listing of resources and application materials helps you with one of the most difficult aspects of student life!

• Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Student
  Criteria: Juniors or seniors in Economics with at least a 3.3 GPA who are enrolled full time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa with scholastic achievements and faculty recommendations.
• Undergraduate Award for Leadership
  Criteria: Student majoring in economics, in good academic standing, holding at least a 3.0 GPA, who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in applying economics knowledge to serve the Department and community.
• Christiaan Grootaert Scholarship
  Criteria: This scholarship is intended to assist undergraduate students in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Social Sciences. Preference is given to meritorious Native Hawaiian students with demonstrated financial need.
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• Hawaii Economic Association’s Harvey Shapiro Scholarship
  Criteria: Economics major who is most likely to broaden public understanding of the economic world and who shows greatest promise in articulating the economic choices we all face in the new century.
• University Research Council (URC) Award for Excellence in Research
  Application Deadline: varies | Award Amount: $500
  Criteria: Any full-time student working towards a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree may be nominated. Each student is limited to receiving one award at any given degree level. Each student's cumulative research activity at UHM up to the point of nomination is reviewed.
  Website: award guidelines
• Manoa Achievement Award
  Criteria: Given to the top performing undergraduate Economics majors who have at least 30 semester hours.