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University of California-Merced Scholarships and Merit Aid

Merced, California

5 scholarships University of California-Merced publishes, each with the amount, what the school says it takes, and the sentence we read it in. This is what the school states, not a list of every award it offers.

8,372Undergraduates
92%Admit rate

Awards that take an application (1)

The school publishes an amount for these, and also publishes that something beyond the admission file decides them.

UC Regents' Scholarship (UC Merced)

$7,000

Renewable
Yes, per the school
All Regents' Scholars are considered for a $7,000 honorarium regardless of financial need.financialaid.ucmerced.edu (read 2026-07-02)

Department awards open to incoming freshmen (4)

Run by a college or department, and published as open to students entering as freshmen.

UC Merced Bobcat STEM Scholarship Program

$0 to $8,000

Department
School of Natural Sciences
Renewable
Yes, per the school
Amount: Up to $8,000ucmerced.scholarshipuniverse.com (read 2026-07-10)

Bank of America Distinguished Management Scholars Program

$0 to $2,500

Department
Ernest and Julio Gallo School of Management
Amount: Up to $2500ucmerced.scholarshipuniverse.com (read 2026-07-10)
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What University of California-Merced costs

Cost of attendance as published: tuition, fees, housing, and food for one year. It is the sticker, before any of the awards above and before need-based aid.

$45,658In-state, per year
$84,928Out-of-state, per year

Where University of California-Merced lists its scholarships

ScholarshipUniverse (ucmerced.scholarshipuniverse.com) — UC Merced's centralized undergraduate scholarship application platform. All institutional scholarships (university-wide AND departmental) are administered through this single portal: continuing students submit one Continuing Student Scholarship Application by March 2nd and are auto-matched to eligible awards. A public, non-login list of 88 currently-open/recently-open scholarships is browsable at ucmerced.scholarshipuniverse.com/public/home without authentication, each showing amount, sponsoring organization, and an apply-between window; full eligibility text is visible per-award detail page (also public, no login required to VIEW, though APPLYING requires UCMnetID SSO). The vast majority list "Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships" as the administering organization regardless of whether the award is department-restricted — department ties only surface in each award's Eligibility Criteria text, not in a dedicated per-school scholarship page (School of Engineering, School of Natural Sciences, and Gallo School of Management all returned 404 on /scholarships).

Where this came from

Every amount on this page was read off a University of California-Merced page on the date shown. Schools change award tables, so check the school's page before you count on a number.