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2025-2026 College of Science Scholarship Application

Applications due
Recommendations due
Friday, February 14 2025 at 11:59pm CST

Contact COS@unt.edu for scholarship questions.

Your contact information

An 8-digit number beginning with 1. Current students can look up their ID using the UNT Account Management System. Prospective students who don't have an ID need to go through ApplyTexas.
Usually your initials followed by a 4-number sequence, in the form of: abc1234.
We need your UNT email address. If you're not sure what it is, you can look it up by logging in with your EUID at https://ams.unt.edu/ (opens in a new window). Your email address will be listed next to "Student E-mail." If you need to know how to log in and check that email, there are instructions at https://aits.unt.edu/eagleconnect/faqs (opens in a new window).
If you have another email address you want to be contacted at other than your UNT one, let us know here.

Your student information

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student?
Are you a current or future UNT student?
If you're not sure how to answer this, let us know what your student status is as of this moment. If you've already enrolled in and taken classes at UNT while filling out this form, select "Current." If you have not enrolled or taken classes yet—but you intend to next academic year—select "Future."
Expected enrollment for next year
Undergraduates: Full-time enrollment is 12+ credit hours per semester. Part-time enrollment is 6-11 credit hours per semester.
Graduates: Full-time enrollment is 9+ credit hours per semester. Part-time enrollment is 5-8 credit hours per semester.
Undergraduate Major

If you're a double-major and both of your majors are in the College of Science, please select both of them. If your second major is outside of the College of Science, you only need to select the major you're doing in the College of Science.
If you're minoring in something, enter it here. Don't worry if you aren't.
Degree you're working on
Graduate Major
Are you a Texas resident?
Usually, this means you've lived at a permanent, established address within Texas for at least 12 months before the semester you're applying for. UNT's Office of the Registrar has more information on residency requirements if you're not sure. (Link opens in a new window.)
Are you a US citizen?

Eligibility questions

Don't worry if you don't answer yes to some of these questions. Not all of our scholarships have additional eligibility requirements. This will help us determine if you are eligible for a few others.

How many credit hours of college work have you completed?
Not sure how many hours you have? Check your unofficial transcript on my.unt.edu. Instructions on how to do that are available in this PDF file. (Links open in a new window.)
Do you plan to graduate UNT in Fall 2025 or Spring 2026?
Are you a pre-health student?
Being a pre-health student means you are working on your degree at UNT with the intent to join a health-related school or program after graduation—for example, you plan to go to medical school. If you're not sure if this applies to you, you can view a list of other pre-health paths. (Link opens in a new window.)
What kind of pre-health student are you?
Do you plan to pursue a career in Osteopathic medicine?
Are you taking 15 hours or more in Fall and Spring of next year?
Are you going to take 15 hours or more in Fall of next year, as well as 15 hours or more in Spring of next year?
What's your GPA?
We're asking this because some scholarships for your major require your cumulative, college-work GPA to be in a certain range.
Have you completed PHYS 1520 or PHYS 2220?
Are you getting the certificate for Actuarial Science?
Are you a member of the Society of Physics Students?
Did you (or will you) graduate from a Texas high school?
Are you in the Teach North Texas program?
Are you a student in UNT's Honors College?
Are you doing any research?
Have you passed your qualifying examinations for your PhD?
Is your primary interest in nuclear physics, atomic physics, or related to nuclear medicine or nuclear pharmacology?
Are you an accepted PhD candidate?
Are you specializing in Chemistry Education?
Do you intend to become a math instructor of some kind?
Have you served or contributed to any activities, programs, or organizations in the Chemistry department?
Try to keep your description to 100 words or less. Don't stress if you go over a little.
Have you submitted your FAFSA?

We strongly recommend you complete your FAFSA before submitting this form. You can fill out your FAFSA at https://fafsa.ed.gov. If you are an international student, an undocumented student or DACA recipient, it's okay if you haven't filled out a FAFSA. COS still has scholarships that you may qualify for in the upcoming award cycle.

If your citizenship prevents you from completing the FAFSA, you may be eligible to complete the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA) or the Texas Public Education Grant for International Students (TPEG-I) Application available through the UNT International Office.

Have you submitted your TASFA?

If your citizenship prevents you from completing the TASFA, you may be eligible to complete the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA) or the Texas Public Education Grant for International Students (TPEG-I) Application available through the UNT International Office.

Upload your essay

Many of our scholarships require essays about your experiences and goals. Try to keep your essay to one page max. We're looking for an essay that describes how receiving a scholarship will help you meet the goals below:

  1. Your career goals, including but not limited to:
    • What you want to do after finishing your current degree.
    • How your specific education will help you achieve your goals.
    • Any internships, jobs, or real-world experiences you've had related to your career goals.
  2. Your extracurricular activities, including but not limited to:
    • Participation in student organizations.
    • Volunteer work.
    • Community or civic contributions.
  3. Your research interests or activities.
  4. Any hardships or difficulties you've faced in pursuing your education.

You'll need to submit your essay as a PDF. View instructions on how to create a PDF (the link opens in a new window, don't worry!)

Since you've said that you're doing research, please include information about your research activities in your essay. For example, consider including the name of your faculty research mentor/principal investigator, or describe a course-based Undergraduate Research Experience.

One file only.
128 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf.

Based on how you've answered the questions on this form so far, we also need your CV as part of your application.

You'll need to submit your CV as a PDF. View instructions on how to create a PDF (the link opens in a new window, don't worry!)

One file only.
128 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf.

Your references

Please enter the email addresses of 2 references who have agreed to provide you a letter of recommendation. When possible, your references should be from your department or within the field you're pursuing. Recommenders will receive a web link via email so they can submit their letters directly to your application. Speaking to your recommender ahead of submitting their information can help your application get qualified more quickly.

Please use an official school or work email when possible.

Have you let your references know that you need letters from them?

Your references should agree to write your letters before you provide their email addresses here. Some scholarships in COS require 2 letters of recommendation, and without them, your application may be disqualified. Although you can still submit this form, failing to get your references' agreement to write letters or permission to provide their email addresses here may delay your application from moving to the next stage.

Since you've said that you're doing research, it's a good idea to use a reference that has guided or knows about your research activities.

Since you've said that you've served the Chemistry department in some way, we strongly recommend making one of your references someone in the Chemistry department who can speak to your contributions.

Other scholarship forms for you

Before you submit this form, we want to let you know that you may qualify for other scholarships that aren't included in this application form.

Good news! Did you know Teach North Texas also offers scholarships to its students? After submitting this form, we highly recommend submitting the TNT scholarship form (link opens in a new window) to be considered for over $10,000 in additional scholarships.

One last question...

We've got one last question for you. Answering this helps us better promote our scholarships, which in turn helps students like you get connected with these financial aid opportunities.

Where did you hear about our scholarships? Check all that apply.
Where did you hear about our scholarships? Every bit helps!
You authorize the University of North Texas to verify the information you have provided on the COS General Scholarship Application as needed. Further, you authorize COS to use your FAFSA and/or TASFA information in consideration of the available scholarship opportunities, and you understand that your application's information, including information from your FAFSA and/or TASFA, may be provided to the donor(s) and/or UNT department(s) funding any scholarships received, and may be publicized in university materials.
I have read, understand, and agree to all requirements pertaining to the scholarships that I am applying for.