SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

The generosity of Texas CPAs allows the Accounting Education Foundation to fund scholarships to Texas college students. Recipients are accounting majors at a Texas college or university and have the intent of becoming a Texas Certified Public Accountant and entering the accounting profession upon graduation. Recipients from four-year universities receive $2,500, and recipients from the five community colleges approved to offer the additional 30 hours for licensure receive $1,000.

To be considered for an Accounting Education Foundation scholarship, a student must:

• Be a current TXCPA member. (Not a member yet? Student membership is FREE. Join here.)
   
• Be an accounting major with the intent of becoming a Texas Certified Public Accountant and entering the accounting profession upon graduation.
   
• Attend a college or university in Texas that offers a bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting and graduates students each year, or attend one of the five Texas community colleges approved to offer the additional 30 hours for licensure. (Note: Applicants will select their school from a list of approved schools on the online application.)
   
• Submit the name and contact information for an accounting professor or department chair to provide a reference as part of their application. 
   
• Be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate college student (at least 12 semester credit hours each semester) OR
   
• Be enrolled as a full-time graduate or community college student (at least 9 semester credit hours each semester) or as a part-time graduate or community college student (at least 6 semester credit hours each semester and must have completed the 120 hours required to sit for the CPA Exam and are currently employed to meet the CPA licensure work experience requirement)
   
• Have satisfactorily completed at least 90 semester credit hours of college-level courses by August 31 of the year of application and graduate no earlier than spring semester of the same academic year.
   
• Have completed 15 semester credit hours of accounting courses required of accounting majors by August 31 of the application year.
   
• Have an Accounting GPA of 3.25 or more on a 4.0 scale.

The deadline for 2024 applications is October 31, 2024. 

Questions?
Shicoyia Morgan
smorgan@tx.cpa 

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