Office of Outreach

Multicultural Scholastic Award Program

The Multicultural Scholastic Award Program (MSA) is a scholarship and student retention initiative targeting academically talented students from diverse backgrounds. All students are encouraged to apply. The MSA Program offers scholarships for incoming freshmen, current UNT students, incoming transfer students, masters and doctoral students. Scholarships range from $1,000 per year for undergraduate students to $1500 per year for graduate students (see below for details). UNT's Outreach and Community Involvement has administered this program since 1996 and supports over 130 students annually. The MSA Program supports the Texas Closing the Gaps by 2015 initiative to graduate 630,000 additional college students. The MSA Program is a Top 10 Recruitment and Retention Program in Texas and aims at providing support with financial assistance, mentoring, cultural enrichment, personal and leadership development.