Financial Aid Initiative

A premier interdisciplinary environmental education requires investment. The Nicholas School is committed to making its degree programs as affordable as possible, and this requires financial aid.

We admit applicants based on their merits, regardless of their ability to pay for the program. Currently, financial aid is provided by scholarship endowments, the Nicholas School Annual Fund, other school resources, Duke University, and government programs.

Closing this gap will take significant resources. That’s where you come in.

The Nicholas School continues to increase the total amount of private tuition support awarded to Nicholas students. Building a more robust pool of financial aid resources will enable the school to close the gap between the cost of the school’s degree programs and students’ own financial resources. This is essential to keep the school within reach of today’s brightest and most talented students, and to give our passionate young alumni the freedom to pursue environmental careers where they can make the greatest impact.

With your support, we will increase the number of students who receive scholarship awards, as well as the size of the individual awards, enabling the school to recruit the most outstanding candidates and reduce student debt upon graduation.

Support Financial Aid

How You Can Help

Gifts of any amount can support the Nicholas School’s Annual Fund. This unrestricted support enables the dean to address the schools highest priority – financial aid. A large portion of Nicholas School Annual Fund support is awarded annually to students in the form of need-based and merit based financial aid.

For a gift of $5,000 or more, you can support one or more of the Nicholas School’s existing endowment funds. Your generous gift at any level – combined with gifts from other donors – will help us achieve our goal to increase the overall size of the school’s scholarship endowment.

For a gift of $100,000 or more, you can create an unrestricted endowed scholarship fund that will generate long-term support to help offset tuition costs for professional master’s students at the Nicholas School.

For a gift of $300,000 or more, you can have an even greater impact and tailor your scholarship to reflect a preference for the recipients’ areas of environmental focus, country, state or region of origin, etc.

For an extraordinary gift of $1.25 million, you can create a named endowed fund that will pay 100% of the tuition costs for one Nicholas School student for a two-year professional degree program.

When you support the Nicholas School Financial Aid Initiative, you will receive information about the impact you are making. Anyone who establishes an endowed scholarship is given the opportunity to meet with the student supported by the scholarship at special events to learn more about their backgrounds, interests and future plans.

Financial Aid Initiative

Closing this gap will take significant resources. That’s where you come in.

How You Can Help

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