West Virginia University Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Development

Scholarships

Financial Needs of Pharmacy Students

In our global community, it is easy to see how the importance of higher education will continue to increase in the coming years. For students attending WVU, achieving this level of education means an ever increasing reliance on financial aid.

As states continue to trim the budgets of public higher education institutions, tuition and fees grow to make up the difference. An increasing burden of financing college is shifting to the students themselves and their families. This reality is clearly seen at WVU as 70% of the University’s undergraduate students receive some kind of financial aid. Additionally, the average undergraduate student graduates from WVU with an indebtedness of over $19,000, and this number increases yearly.

Couple these figures with the fact that 12% of the students on the Morgantown campus are first generation college students, the first in their families to seek a higher education, and it is easy to see that an investment in the students at WVU is an investment in our future.

WVU and the WVU Foundation are committed to ensuring that no academically qualified student is turned away because they cannot afford to attend college. Privately funded merit and need-based scholarships are crucial to providing students with the financial resources they so very much need to attend and be successful at WVU. It is in their successes that a legacy of quality education is created defining WVU as a great American university.

If you would like to sponsor a scholarship for Pharmacy students, please contact Anna Rittenhouse, Director of Development for Pharmacy at 304–293–7731, arittenhouse@hsc.wvu.edu.

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