State of Michigan Aid

The Children of Veterans Tuition Grant provides undergraduate tuition assistance to students who are the natural or adopted child of a qualified Michigan veteran who has died or become totally and permanently disabled due to a service-connected illness or injury, or is missing in action (MIA), as a result of military service.

Children of Veterans Tuition Grant

The Fostering Futures Scholarship (FFS) provides scholarships to students who have experienced foster care in Michigan on or after age 13. Students must also demonstrate financial need to qualify.

Fostering Futures Scholarship

The Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver is a program enacted by Public Act 174 of 1976, which waives the tuition costs for eligible Native Americans in public community colleges or universities within Michigan. Applications are processed by the Michigan Department of Lifelong, Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP).

Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Program

The Police Officer’s and Fire Fighter’s Survivor Tuition Grant (STG) provides for the waiver of tuition at a Michigan community college or public university for the natural or adopted children and surviving spouses of Michigan police officers and fire fighters killed in the line of duty.

Police Officer's and Fire Fighter's Survivor Tuition Grant

The MI Future Educator Fellowship offers $10,000 scholarship to up to 2,500 future educators every year who are admitted and enrolled in an Educator Preparation Program (EPP) approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

Mi Future Educator Fellowship

The MI Future Educator Stipend provides $9,600 to our future educators who are participating in their required student teaching semester.

Mi Future Educator Stipend

The Michigan Achievement Scholarship is designed to help recent high school graduates in Michigan receive funds for continuing education. Eligible students could receive financial aid to attend a college or university with the Michigan Achievement Scholarship, or for a career training program with the Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship.

Michigan Achievement Scholarship

The Michigan Competitive Scholarship is available to undergraduate students pursuing their first degree and is based on both financial need and merit. To be considered, a student must take the SAT (Class of 2017 and beyond) prior to entering college and achieve a qualifying score of at least 1200.

Michigan Competitive Scholarship is no longer available to students who graduated high school (or its equivalent) in 2023 or later.

Michigan Competitive Scholarship will permanently end on September 30, 2029.

Michigan Competitive Scholarship

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a Federal program designed to provide early intervention services and programs to students in middle school and high school. MI GEAR UP Scholarship targets low-income students by providing them with support services to increase their opportunity to succeed in postsecondary education.

MI GEAR UP Scholarship

The Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) encourages eligible Medicaid recipients to complete high school by providing tuition assistance during an eligible student’s qualifying certificate or associate degree program and also during the student’s bachelor’s degree program. These two periods of assistance are referred to as ‘Phase I’ and ‘Phase II '.

Only students who were identified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) as having met the Michigan Medicaid eligibility requirement may be considered for TIP.

Students, as young as 12, who have been identified as meeting the Medicaid eligibility requirement will be sent a notification about their TIP eligibility.

Tuition Incentive Program