Presidential Scholars Award
$1,000
- Who it is for
- In-state students
- Renewable
- Yes, per the school
Annual value: $1,000 Four-year value: $4,000sc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
12 scholarships University of South Carolina-Columbia 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.
These are the awards the school ties to stated GPA and test bars. No separate application is listed for them.
$1,000
Annual value: $1,000 Four-year value: $4,000sc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$3,300
Annual value: $3,300 freshman year onlysc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
The school publishes an amount for these, and also publishes that something beyond the admission file decides them.
$0 to $10,000
Annual value: Up to $10,000 Four-year value: Up to $40,000sc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Stamps Scholars annual value: approximately $24,700 + tuition reduction to in-state rate + $15,000 enrichment fundsc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
McNair Scholars annual value: $22,000 + tuition reduction to in-state rate + $12,000 enrichment fundsc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Horseshoe Scholars annual value: $11,000 + tuition reduction to in-state ratesc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $4,000 + tuition reduction to in-state ratesc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $2,000 + tuition reduction to in-state ratesc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $500 + tuition reduction to in-state ratesc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $500 + tuition reductionsc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $500 + tuition reduction Four-year value: more than $44,000sc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
$0
Annual value: $500 + tuition reduction Four-year value: more than $24,000sc.edu (read 2026-05-21)
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.
Where University of South Carolina-Columbia lists its scholarships
AcademicWorks (sc.academicworks.com) — USC's centralized scholarship-application portal used by most colleges/departments (e.g. Criminal Justice, Psychology, Mathematics, Engineering & Computing, Business, Nursing, Education, Journalism, Social Work, Library & Information Science, Hospitality/Retail/Sport Management) for departmental scholarship applications. Individual award names/amounts for these departments are gated behind portal login and not listed on the open department scholarship-print pages.
Every amount on this page was read off a University of South Carolina-Columbia page on the date shown. Schools change award tables, so check the school's page before you count on a number.