The Ohio University Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships offers information regarding financial aid available to OHIO students. While the OHIO Southern Student Services Office is available to answer your questions and help you secure financial aid, your Financial Aid Offer will be processed by staff on our Ohio University Athens campus. Please stop by the Southern campus Student Services Office or contact the Ohio University Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships for more information.
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OHIO Regional Advantage
A set of renewable scholarships designed to ensure that an extraordinary OHIO education is within reach, the program recognizes exemplary academic achievement within our regional communities with awards for fall 2025 incoming full-time freshmen.
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OHIO Regional Promise
This renewable award will cover the full cost of tuition and mandatory fees to attend an Ohio University regional campus for fall 2025 incoming full-time, Pell-eligible freshmen with a minimum 3.0 high school GPA who apply by December 1, 2024, and whose FAFSA results are received by OHIO's first-priority date, February 15, 2025.
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4 Years, 1 Low Price
The OHIO Guarantee means students attending Ohio University Southern will pay a single fixed rate that covers tuition and most fees for four years. During the 2024-2025 year, new Ohio residents who enroll as full-time, degree seeking students at an OHIO regional campus pay $3,181 per semester.
Financial Aid and Aid Offers
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FAFSA
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the only application for all forms of federal, state and institutional financial aid. Students must complete the FAFSA annually. To be considered for all forms of aid, file by OHIO's first-priority date, February 15, 2025.
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Types of Aid
When it comes to paying for school, you're not alone. Financial aid is offered from many sources. Grants, scholarships, work-study and low-interest loans help make college more affordable.
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Aid Offers
Financial Aid Offers provide students with cost information, types and amounts of financial aid offered, and necessary action items. Students are encouraged to also view this information on their MyOHIO Student Center.
Scholarships
Funds for academically talented and creatively gifted students are offered by Ohio University through a variety of scholarships. Your application for admission to Ohio University serves as your application for most University scholarships. Upperclass students who submit the online scholarship application are also considered for most upperclass scholarships.
- Scholarships for Incoming Fall 2025 Freshmen: The OHIO Regional Advantage Awards program recognizes the exemplary academic achievement within our regional communities. First-year students who are new to an OHIO University regional campus in fall 2025 as full-time, degree-seeking students are eligible for consideration for the Regional Advantage Awards program .
- Scholarships for Continuing Students: All currently enrolled students should complete the Online Scholarship Application . The 2025-26 scholarship application opens November 1, 2024. Students must apply no later than February 1, 2025, to receive first-priority consideration. Students receiving scholarships will be notified in March.
- Search online for scholarships
- Apply for non-university scholarship opportunities
Available Scholarships at OHIO Southern
Please note: Some scholarships require additional information. For those scholarships, which are marked with an asterisk (*), the form is linked in the qualifications list and must be completed for full consideration.
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Graduate of Dawson Bryant High School in Coal Grove, OH
- Demonstrate financial need
- Must be a psychology major
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Lawrence County undergraduate attending OUS
- Based on need and academic performance
- Student attending OUS.
- Student residing in Lawrence County, Ohio
Majoring in Nursing at OUS
Minimum 3.0 GPA
Non-renewable
- Dawson Bryant High School graduating senior attending OUS
- Demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Supplemental application required
Decision made by Coal Grove Betterment Club president, a Coal Grove High School and an Ohio University Southern representative.
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern in the either the ADN or BSN nursing programs
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- Demonstrate financial need.
- Lawrence County undergraduate attending OUS
Education major
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern as a pre-nursing student
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- Demonstrate financial need
- Lawrence County, OH undergraduate attending OUS.
- Undergraduate attending OUS
- Minimum 3.3 GPA
- Must have earned a minimum of 24 credit hours
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Demonstrate financial need
- First preference given to science major
- Second preference to business or accounting major
- Graduating high school senior residing in Lawrence County
- Must be a first generation college student
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Non-Renewable
- Lawrence County, OH resident enrolled at OUS
- Must demonstrate financial need
- It is desirable, but not required, that the scholarship recipient be involved in some community service
- The scholarship will be renewable as long as the student maintains a 3.0 GPA.
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Graduate of Fairland, Chesapeake or Symmes Valley High
- School in Lawrence County, OH
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Demonstrate financial need
- Non-renewable
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Graduate of a Lawrence County, OH high school
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Demonstrate financial need
- Non-renewable
- Graduating high school senior residing in Lawrence County, OH
- First generation college student
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Additional application needed and 300-500 word essay on "Why I want to go to college"
- Non-renewable
- Awarded to OUS student with a minimum 3.0 GPA
- Must attend OUS majoring in business
- Must be a graduate of Gallia, Lawrence or Scioto County, Ohio High Schools
- Minimum 3.4 GPA
- Undergraduate attending OUS
Must be a resident of Kentucky or West Virginia
Demonstrate financial need
Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Incoming freshman
- Must reside in Lawrence County, OH
- First preference given to first generation college student
- Second preference based on financial need
- Must be in the OUS ADN program
- Demonstrate financial need
- First preference given to Boyd County, KY residents.
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Reside in Lawrence County, OH or Boyd County, KY
- Demonstrate financial need and academic merit
- Incoming freshmen must have a minimum 3.0 GPA; continuing students must maintain a 3.0 GPA
- Demonstrate community service.
- OUS undergraduate majoring in Electronic Media
Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Undergraduate attending OUS
- Minimum 2.75 GPA upon high school graduation or 2.5 GPA at OUS, whichever is most recent
- Must provide an essay (300-500 words) on "Indian Culture and Philosophy"
- Freshman India Association Scholarship
- Upperclassman India Association Scholarship
- Must live in the Ironton Empowerment Zone (Railroad to Spruce and the floodwall to US 52)
- Based on academic potential and financial need
- Service component required (100 hours)
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern
- Demonstrates financial need and academic merit
- Preference given to a first-generation college student
- Must be a graduate of Paul Blazer High School attending OUS
- Must demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Preference given to math majors
- Non-renewable
- Graduating high school senior residing in Lawrence County, OH
- Science major
- Must demonstrate financial need
- Must have and maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA
- Non-renewable
- 18-24 year old undergraduate attending OUS
Resident of Kentucky - High school GPA of 2.0-3.0
- Preference given to Boyd County High School graduates
- Must attend OUS
- Awarded to graduates from high schools from the following Kentucky counties: Boyd, Carter, Elliot, Fleming, Greenup, Lawrence, Lewis Mason and Rowan
- Awarded up through a maximum of five years after high school graduation
- Recipients will be required to send a copy of eligibility letter to Office of Student Services
- Renewable with an accumulative 2.5 OU GPA
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern and reside in Lawrence County, OH.
- U.S. citizen or permanent resident attending OUS enrolled in the nursing program
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Second-year nursing student
- Preference given to students interested in mother-baby, neonatal, or pediatric nursing
- Essay required
- Must attend OUS
- Majoring in electronic media
- Demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Non-renewable
- Enrolled in and accepted at Ohio University Southern
- Demonstrate financial need
- Preference will be given to dependents of veterans
- Supplemental material required: Freshman Judge Frank McCown Veterans Memorial Scholarship
- Must major in nursing at OUS
- Must reside in Greenup, Boyd, Carter, Lawrence, Elliot or Lewis counties in Kentucky, Scioto or Lawrence County in Ohio, Wayne or Cabell County in WV
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Undergraduate attending OUS
- Must maintain 3.3 GPA
- Based on academic merit
- Non-renewable
- Graduating high school senior attending OUS who has completed a tech prep program with a 3.0 GPA
- Renewable for one year
- Supplemental materials required
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern in the nursing program
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- Must be a full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate student enrolled in or accepted for admission to OHIO Southern Campus
- Must demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Must reside in Lawrence or Scioto counties in Ohio
- Must be pursuing a degree in accounting, business or finance
- Must be a member of the OUS Academic Team
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Must be majoring in equine studies or education at OUS
- First consideration goes to Equine Studies Major
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern in electronic media
- Student attending OUS pursuing degree in special education
- Lawrence County undergraduate with a disabled veteran in their family
- Recipient must attend OUS
- Must submit an essay on "The Importance of the Military to the USA"
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
Freshman HB Doc Riley, Ch. 51 Disabled American Veterans Scholarship
Upperclassman HB Doc Riley, Ch. 51 Disabled American Veterans Scholarship
- Undergraduate student attending OUS
- Reside in Lawrence or Scioto County, OH
- Must demonstrate continued advancement, financial need, and academic merit
- Recipients must be degree-seeking and enrolled in or accepted for admission to OUS
- Must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents
- Minimum 3.3 GPA
- Preference given to students majoring in history
- Recipients chosen principally on academic performance or potential
- Must be a graduating senior
- Minimum 24 ACT
- 3.0 GPA
- First preference given to an Ironton, OH or Raceland, KY high school graduate
- First preference given to electronic media student
- Must be a graduating senior from Chesapeake, Fairland, South Point, or Symmes Valley High School and attending the Proctorville Center
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Scholarship will rotate among qualifying schools
- Non-renewable
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Must be a graduate of Fairland High School
- Must be involved in community service
- Preference given if in top 25 % of graduating class
- Majoring in Nursing at OUS
- Must demonstrate financial need
- Graduate of a Scioto County high school
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Non-renewable
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern in a business related program
- Graduate of a Lawrence County, OH high school
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Preference give to Rock Hill High School graduate
- Enrolled at Ohio Southern
- Reside in Lawrence County
- Awarded on basis of financial need and academic merit
- Must be a student majoring in electronic media with 30 or more hours earned
- Minimum 2.7 GPA
- Renewable up to one year
- Lawrence County undergraduate attending OUS
- Student majoring in the social science or health field
- Must be a Lawrence County resident
- Minimum 3.4 GPA
- Must be enrolled at OUS majoring in speech or theatre
- Must demonstrate financial need
- Must be entering Sophomore year
- Must reside in Lawrence or Scioto Counties in Ohio, Cabell or Wayne counties in WV, Boyd or Greenup Counties in Kentucky
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Lawrence County, OH undergraduate attending OUS
- Demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Student must be enrolled in the OUS Nursing Program
- Graduate of Ironton St. Joseph, Ironton, Dawson Bryant, Rock Hill, South Point, Russell or Fairview High School
- Minimum 3.0 GPA
- Undergraduate attending OUS majoring in education
- Must be a graduate of a Lawrence County, OH high school
- Additional application is needed (see below)
Freshman Myrtle E. and Lloyd Wood Memorial Scholarship
Upperclassman Myrtle E. and Lloyd Wood Memorial Scholarship
- Awarded to an Ironton High School graduate majoring in equine studies or special education
- Demonstrate financial need
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
- Enrolled at OHIO Southern
- Veteran or member of a veteran’s family
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- Preference given to Lawrence County, OH residents
- Demonstrate financial need
Contact Us
Martha Tanedo, M.A.
Assistant Director of Regional Financial Aid
Bennett Hall - Room 134D
740.774.7733
tanedo@ohio.edu
Vicki DeLucas
Assistant Director of Regional Financial Aid
Elson Hall - Room 141
740.588.1441
delucas@ohio.edu