Financial Aid

Matthew Vassar bequeathed to the college its first scholarship fund. Through the years, generous alumni and friends of the college have contributed additional scholarship funds and annual gifts to help promising students meet their college costs.

The goal of the financial aid program is to make a Vassar education affordable and accessible to all admitted students. Vassar meets 100% of the full demonstrated need of admitted students for all four years. As of the 2008/09 academic year, Vassar no longer uses loans to meet financial need of low income students.  

During the academic 2022/23 year, approximately 55% of the student body received financial aid totaling more than $73 million from the college, federal, state, and private sources. Of that amount, over $69 million was awarded in the form of Vassar Scholarship assistance, all of which was awarded on the basis of financial need as determined by the college.

To apply for financial aid applicants and their families must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the CSS PROFILE from the College Board, and submit recent tax documents. Students who are New York State residents are also required to submit an application for the state TAP grant.  Complete application instructions and deadlines for first-year, transfer, and returning students are available on the Student Financial Services website.

Financial Aid Awards

Financial aid at Vassar is awarded entirely on the basis of financial need. Vassar uses two applications to determine financial need.  The FAFSA serves as the application for federal grants, loans, and work study eligibility and the CSS profile serves as the application for Vassar scholarship eligibility.  The college expects students and parents to assume the primary responsibility for paying college costs. Financial need is defined as the difference between the Cost of Attendance and the Vassar determined family contribution.  Awards are packaged so that the first portion of the student’s need is met with federal and state grants (if eligible), a work study allowance and a student loan.  All remaining need is covered with Vassar scholarship.  Financial need is reassessed each academic year and may change if a family’s circumstances change. Students must also maintain good academic standing.

Applicants for financial aid are expected to investigate all possible sources of assistance for which they may be eligible, such as state scholarships, outside tuition benefits, and awards offered by community organizations.

The following scholarships from funds not held by Vassar and may be available to applicants who meet the qualifications:

The B. Belle Whitney Scholarship, held in trust by J. P. Morgan/Chase Manhattan Bank for students with financial need from the following towns in Connecticut: Bethel, Danbury, Brookfield, Sherman, New Milford, Newtown, New Fairfield, Redding, and Ridgefield.

The L. L. Staton Scholarship, held in trust by Mahlon De Loatch, Jr., of Taylor and Brinson, Attorneys-at-Law, Tarboro North Carolina for women from Tarboro, Edgecombe County, eastern North Carolina, and western North Carolina, in that order.

The Eva March Tappan Scholarship, held in trust by Bank of America, Boston, Massachusetts, for residents of Worcester County.

The selection of students for these trust funds is determined by the trustees and the Office of Student Financial Services.

Financial Aid and Athletes

Athletic ability is never a factor in the awarding of financial aid by Vassar College. Vassar College fields teams at the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Division III regulations prohibit the awarding of any financial aid based on athletic considerations.

Scholarships in the Performing Arts

A limited number of art supplies stipends and music-performance scholarships are given on the basis of financial need. These scholarships are meant to offset the additional costs associated with these courses. The art stipend requires a separate application, available on the Student Financial Services website during the first week of classes each semester. The music scholarship is credited to the student account of eligible students automatically. 

Loan Funds

Federal Direct Loans are available to eligible students who complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and are US citizens. There are two types of Direct Loans. The subsidized loan does not accrue interest while the student is enrolled in school. The unsubsidized loan does accrue interest, beginning from the time the loan is disbursed. Both loans have the same fixed interest rate. Loan eligibility is determined by the student’s class year, level of financial need, and amount of other aid received. An origination fee is deducted from the loan prior to disbursement by the loan servicer. Repayment begins 6 months after graduating, leaving school, or dropping below half-time enrollment. There are a variety or repayment options and deferment and forbearance provisions are available in special circumstances. 

International students demonstrating financial need receive a small Vassar funded student loan in their financial aid offer.

Additional loan information can be obtained from the Student Financial Services website.

Other Federal Loan Programs

The Federal Direct Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) is available to parents of dependent undergraduate students. This loan carries a fixed interest rate and is subject to a loan origination fee. The maximum amount that can be borrowed is the Cost of Attendance less financial aid. Eligibility is contingent upon a successful credit check of the borrower. Repayment begins shortly after the loan is fully disbursed.

New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)

The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. An annual TAP award can total up to $5,665 and is based on a family’s New York State net taxable income. Students are directed to the TAP application after completing the FAFSA. A separate application can also be obtained from the HESC (NY Higher Education Services Corporation) website.

Continuing students must maintain satisfactory academic progress based on the following guidelines in order to remain eligible for the TAP program:

Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) 

Calendar: Semester

Student Employment

A work study allowance is part of every financial aid offer for students with financial need. Work study recipients are given priority in the job application and hiring process. Students receive an allocation for either Federal Work Study (federally funded) or Institutional Work Study (Vassar funded). Presently, the maximum work study allocation is $3,000 which allows students to work approximately 7.5 hours per week. The Office of Student Employment assists students with all job application, hiring, and student employment matters.

Vassar Scholarships for Study Away and Exchange Programs

Students participating in approved study away programs (international or domestic) are eligible to receive financial aid. The amount of aid will be determined using the same family contribution that would be used if the student remained on campus, and an expense budget that reflects the necessary costs of the program. Because of the wide range of programs offered, the exact program cost and determination of aid eligibility can vary considerably.  Students who study away are not eligible to participate in work study. As a result, the work study allowance typically in the financial aid package will be replaced with a federal direct student loan.

Scholarship Funds

All Vassar scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of financial need, as determined by the college. The endowed funds listed below contribute to the Vassar scholarship students receive in their award packages. Students do not apply separately for specific endowed funds.

• Stella Hamburger Aaron 1899 Fund
• Maxine Goldmark Aaron ‘24 Fund
• Gorham D. and Rebecca I. Abbot Fund
• Jennie Ackerly Fund
• Florence White Adlem Fund
• Edna C. Albro Fund
• George I. Alden Trust Fund
• Julia Bowles Alexander Fund
• Margaret Middleditch Allardyce Fund
• Mildred Allen Fund
• Jodie T. Allen ‘59 Scholarship Fund
• Adelaide Ames Fund
• Othmar Ammann Scholarship
• Arlene Joy Amron Memorial Fund
• Mary Louise Anderson Fund
• E. Cowles and Miriam Jay Wurts Andrus Fund
• Anonymous Scholarship Fund
• Gwendolen Appleyard Class of 1934 Scholarship Fund
• Louise C. Armstrong Fund
• Alma Askin Endowed Scholarship
• Grace Tinker Aten Memorial Grant
• Elizabeth V. Atwater Fund
• Norma K. and Lisa Aufzien Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Chellis A. Austin Fund
• Edwin C. Austin Fund
• Sarah Taylor Avrit Fund
• Sara L. Azrael Fund
• Lydia Richardson Babbott Fund
• Mary Donahue Baker Fund
• Elsie L. Baker Fund
• Katharine Jones Baker Scholarship
• Columbus and Edith E. Langenberg Baldo Music Fund
• The Barbara Bares ‘71 Scholarship
• Leslie Greenough Barker Fund
• Agnes L. Barnum Fund
• Edward M. Barringer Fund
• Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Fund
• Baxter Scholarship Fund
• Louisa Van Kleeck Beach Fund
• Adeline Beadle Fund
• Gabrielle Snyder Beck Endowment Fund
• The Curt W. Beck Memorial Scholarship
• Aymer J. and E. Louise Beecher Fund
• Julia E. Bell Fund
• Margaret Jones Benton Fund
• Ada Kerr Benz Fund
• Gail Berman and William Masters Scholarship
• Cecile and Gustav Bernd Sr. Fund
• Arnold Bernhard Foundation Fund
• Alison Bernstein Scholarship
• James C.P. Berry Scholarship
• Frank Stillman Bidwell Fund
• Mary Brown Bidwell Fund
• William Bingham, II Fund
• Sarah Gibson Blanding Fund
• Edith S. Wetmore Blessing Fund
• Avis H. and Lucy H. Blewett Fund
• Margaret S. Block Fund
• The Blum Fund for Financial Aid
• Rebecca Prentiss Blunt Fund
• Olive Thompson Bond Fund
• Clara Lena Bostwick and Marion Bostwick Mattice Smith Fund
• Dr. Elaine Botti Memorial Scholarship
• Annie Nettleton Bourne Fund
• Constance B. Bowditch Fund
• Mabel Maxwell Brace Fund
• The Jane Coffin Bradley ‘71 Scholarship
• Priscilla Braislin Fund
• The Braun Family Scholarship
• Nannie Jenckes Brayton Fund
• Jane Breckir Memorial Fund
• Louise D. Breidge Fund
• Brigham Family Scholarship
• Blanche Campbell Brown Fund
• Laura A. Brown Fund
• Mabel Webster Brown Fund
• Virginia Post Brown Fund
• Brownell-Collier Fund
• Florence Wadhams Buchanan Fund
• Catharine Morgan Buckingham Fund
• John Buckmaster Fund
• Louise Burchard Fund
• Bertha Shapley Burke Fund
• David Calle and Mark Burstein ‘84 Scholarship
• The Aimée Mott Butler VC 1925 Scholarship Fund
• Marian Blakeslee Butler ‘39 Scholarship
• Shirley Oakes Butler Fund
• Marian Voorhees 1904 and Edgar J. Buttenheim Fund
• Hilda J. Butterfield Fund
• Annie Glyde Wells Caldwell Fund
• Northern California Endowment Fund
• Dorothy L. Campbell Scholarship
• Nellie Heth Canfield Fund
• Eliza Capen Fund
• Henrietta Capen Fund
• Jane Clark Carey Fund
• Dorothy Carl Class of 1930 Scholarship
• Josephine “Nicky” Benz Carpenter ‘57 Endowed Scholarship
• Central New York Scholarship Fund
• Cornelia B. Challice Fund
• Dr. Paul A. Chandler Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Emily M. Chapman Fund
• J.P. Morgan Chase Scholarship Fund
• Judith Loeb Chiara Scholarship
• Augusta Choate Fund
• Edward Christman Scholarship Fund
• Althea Ward Clark Fund in the Environmental Sciences
• Carnzu A. Clark Family Fund
• Class of 1896 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1900 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1922 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1923 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1931 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1934 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1936 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1942 Fund for the Environmental Sciences
• Class of 1944 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1945 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1951 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1952 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1955 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1956 Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1961 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1962 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1966 Endowed Memorial Scholarship
• Class of 1967 Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1974 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1982 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 1985 (Alden) Fund
• Class of 2010 Endowed Scholarship
• Class of 2019 Expendable Scholarship Fund
• Class of 2022 Scholarship Fund
• Class of 2023 Scholarship
• Sally Dayton Clement Scholarship Fund
• Cleveland Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Annette Perry Coakley Fund
• Elizabeth Nielsen Cocciarell ‘76 Scholarship
• Elizabeth Muir Coe 1942 Scholarship
• P. Charles Cole Fund
• College Bowl Scholarship Fund
• Carol Ohmer Collins ‘47 Scholarship
• Isabella Steenburg Collins Fund
• Colorado Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Elizabeth W. Colton Scholarship
• Compton Family Scholarship Fund
• Compton Foundation Scholarship Fund
• Dorothy Danforth Compton Fund
• Ruth E. Conklin Fund
• Connecticut Scholarship Fund
• Martine Vilas Conway ‘53 Endowed Scholarship
• Alison R. Coolidge Fund
• Wildey B. and Ella H. Cooper Fund
• Dr. Susan Covey Memorial Scholarship
• Sarah Frances Hutchinson Cowles and Patricia Stewart Phelps Fund
• Albert W. Cretella  Jr. Memorial Scholarship
• Susan Copland Crim Fund
• Cronson Family Scholarship
• John J. Csizmar Scholarship Endowment
• Dr. Emma V.P. Bicknell Culbertson Fund
• Gladys H. Cunningham Fund
• Florence M. Cushing Fund
• Dennis and Marsha Finn Dammerman Scholarship
• Barbara Ludlam Danz ‘66 Endowed Scholarship
• Charles L. Dates Fund
• Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Scholarship Fund
• Thomas M. and Mary E. Bennett Davis Fund
• Barbara Rowe de Marneffe and Pamela Rowe Peabody Fund
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery Scholarship Fund
• Barbara Knowles Debs ‘53 Scholarship
• Margarita Victoria Delacorte ‘53 Memorial Scholarship Fund
• George Sherman Dickinson Fund
• Bertha Clark Dillon Fund
• DiPasquale Family Scholarship
• May Cossitt Dodge Fund
• Mario Domandi Fund
• Susan Miller Dorsey Fund
• Caroline B. Dow and Lilla T. Elder Fund
• Durant Drake Fund
• Mary Childs Draper, Vassar 1908, Scholarship
• Drotleff Scholarship Fund
• Kathryn McGrath Dubbs Fund
• Gwendoline Durbridge Fund
• Maude Elizabeth Batcheller Durkee Fund
• Catherine Pelton Durrell ‘25 Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Jane Dustan Scholarship
• Ruth P. East Fund
• Charles M. Eckert Fund
• George and Mary Economou Scholarship for Poughkeepsie
• Edna H. Edgerton Fund
• Marjorie Ellenbogen ‘58 Scholarship
• Achsah M. Ely Fund
• Linda Beiles Englander ‘62 Fund
• Andrew D. Eu ‘83 Scholarship
• Elizabeth Y. Evans Fund
• Katherine Evans 1946 Fund for Study Abroad
• Martha Jarnagin Evans Fund
• Suzanne Hastings Farrell ‘84 and Christopher H. Farrell ‘16 Scholarship
• Feitler Family Scholarship
• Margaret Ferguson Fund
• Fergusson Presidential Scholars
• Frances D. Fergusson Scholarship
• Edith Ferry Memorial Fund
• Robyn L. Field ‘86 and Anthony D. O’Carroll ‘85 Scholarship
• Mary Davis Firestone Memorial Fund
• Julia Amster Fishelson Fund
• Lucy Aldrich Fitch Fund
• Foreign Service and Military Scholarship Fund
• Elizabeth R. Foster Scholarship
• Abbie H. Fox Fund
• Anne Frank Memorial Fund
• Friedland Scholarship Fund
• Ruth Scharps Fuld Fund
• Flora Todd Fuller Fund
• Gaidimas Family Expendable Scholarship
• S. Margaret Gallagher Fund
• Roberta Galloway Gardner Fund
• Myra Toby Gargill Scholarship Fund
• Nellie J. Ryder Gates Fund
• Caroline M. Gerrish Fund
• Margaret McKee Gerrity Fund
• Cora Williams Getz Fund
• Nikki G. Geula ‘94 Scholarship Fund
• George R. and Helen M. Gibbons Fund
• Kate Viola Gibson Fund
• Lucille Renneckar Glass Fund
• Louise Miller Glover Fund
• Frances Goldin Scholarship Fund
• Jeffrey Goldstein ‘77 Scholarship
• Joan Gordon Scholarship Fund
• George Coleman Gow Fund
• Michael Paul Grace Endowed Scholarship
• Graham Alumnae Fund
• Harriette Westfall Greene Fund
• Gayle Gussett Greenhill ‘58 Endowed Scholarship
• Robina Knox Gregg Fund
• Emma Catherine Gregory Fund
• Kate Stanton Griffis Fund
• Lea Trinka Grossi ‘72 Scholarship
• Gertrude H. Grosvenor Fund
• Gutierrez Family Scholarship Fund
• Matt L. Hackett 2007 Expendable Scholarship Fund
• Helen Morris Hadley Fund
• Hager Scholarship Fund
• George S. & Esther E. Halstead Fund
• Hamilton Scholarship
• Marian Shaler Hanisch Fund
• Ives Dulles Hannay ‘42 Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Dorothy Harrison ‘59 Memorial Scholarship
• H. Stuart Harrison Fund
• Evelina Hartz Fund
• Mary Lee and Andrew Hartzell Scholarship Fund
• Judith Hasko ‘86 and Philip Reilly Scholarship
• Margaret D. Hayden 1939 Scholarship Fund
• Alice Hayes Fund
• Elizabeth Debevoise Healy & Harold Harris Healy Jr. Fund
• Edward W. and Angelina M. Hearon Scholarship Fund 
• William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund
• Laura McNeely Hedrick Fund
• Heffernan Scholarship Fund
• Hazel Bowling Heflin Fund
• John P. Herrick Fund
• Frank C. and Maryellen Cattani Herringer ‘65 Scholarship
• Hersey Association Scholarship Fund
• Heloise E. Hersey Fund
• The Joan Frances Hertzberg ‘71 Memorial Scholarship 
• Bailey Wright Hickenlooper Fund
• Catharine Bond Hill Endowed Scholarship
• Ralph M. Hill and Reba Stutson Hill, Vassar 1908, Scholarship
• Anne Matson Hillary ‘88 Scholarship
• Meredith Miller Hilson Fund
• Malcolm and Anna Robb Hirsh ‘37 Endowed Scholarship
• Adelaide F. and Alexander P. Hixon Endowment for Exploring Transfer
• Dorothy Deyo Munro and Cornelia Deyo Hochstrasser Scholarship Fund
• Robert and Martha Hoffman Fund
• Elizabeth Hogsett Fund
• Eugene and Edith Holman Scholarship
• Blanche Ferry Hooker Fund
• The Patricia Parker Hoskinson ‘71 Scholarship
• Julie Lien-Ying How Memorial Scholarship
• Nancy Phillips Howland Scholarship
• Mable Hastings Humpstone Fund
• Calvin Huntington Fund
• Dorothy D. Hurd Fund
• Deborah Dow and Glenn Hutchins Scholarship
• Lillia Babbitt Hyde Fund
• Helen K. Ikeler Fund
• Indiana Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Martha Rivers Ingram ‘57 Fund
• Jane Lilley Ireson Fund
• Northern Italian Scholarship Endowment Fund
• Martha Turley Jack Scholarship
• Helen Hunt Jackson Fund
• Harriet Morse Jenckes Fund
• Bertha Tisdale Jenks Fund
• Elizabeth Jenks Fund
• Dorothy Jennings Class of 1923 Scholarship Endowment Fund
• Beth Johnson Memorial Fund
• Colton Johnson Scholarship
• Jane T. Johnson Fund
• Julia E. Johnson Fund
• Henry P. and Susan I. Johnson Scholarship Fund
• Helen Lyon Jones Fund
• Leila D. Jones Fund
• Michael and Nancy Olmsted Kaehr ‘60 Scholarship
• Louise M. Karcher Fund
• Carol Miller Kautz ‘55 and James Kautz Trustee Scholarship
• Katharine Margaret Kay Fund
• Mildred ‘42 and Bernard Kayden Scholarship Fund for Music
• Peggy Bullens Keally Fund
• Clara E.B. Kellner Scholars Fund
• Charlotte K. Kempner and Phyllis A. Kempner Scholarship Fund
• Kimball Family Scholarship
• Dorothy W. King Fund
• Margaret Allen Knapp Scholarship Fund
• Adelaide Knight Fund
• Koopman Scholarship Fund
• Dr. Abraham Krakower Endowed Scholarship
• Bertha M. Kridel Fund
• Alex Krieger ‘95 Memorial Fund
• Helen Dixon Kunzelmann Endowment
• Delphia Hill Lamberson Fund
• Lambert-Hall Fund for Studio Art
• Barbara Bentley Lane ‘33 Scholarship Endowment Fund
• Ellen Vorzimer Langner Fund
• Suzanne S. LaPierre ‘76 Scholarship
• Katharine P. Larrabee Fund
• Gloria Cordes Larson ‘72 Scholarship Fund
• Loula D. Lasker 1909 and Frances Lasker Brody 1937 Scholarship
• Otis Lee Fund
• Margaret Anita Leet Fund
• Margaret Bashford Legardeur Fund
• Annette and Theodore Lerner Family Foundation Scholarship
• Granger Leveen Scholarship
• Dorothy I. Levens Fund
• Laura Jee Li ‘37 Memorial Scholarship
• Susan J. Life Fund
• Elisabeth Locke Fund in Music
• Helen D. Lockwood Fund
• Julia B. Lockwood Fund
• Frances Lehman Loeb ‘28 Scholarship Fund
• Dorothy Hirsch Loebl ‘48 Scholarship Fund
• Louisiana Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Lui & Wan Foundation Scholarship
• Polly Richardson Lukens Memorial Fund
• Hannah Willard Lyman Fund
• Lyndon Hall Alumnae Association Scholarship Fund
• Susanne Daisley Lyons ‘79 Scholarship Fund
• Catherine Hubbard MacCracken Fund
• Majorie Dodd MacCracken Fund
• Anne Morris Macdonald ‘42 Scholarship
• Florence Van Sciver and Barbara Marter MacFalls Scholarship Endowment
• Martha H. MacLeish Fund
• Susan Zadek Mandel and Beth K. Zadek Fund
• Mabel Farnham Mangano Fund
• J.P. and L.T. Marangu Family Scholarship
• The Valerie Patrono Marchese ‘71 Scholarship
• The Elizabeth Margoshes ‘71 Scholarship
• Mary Anna Fox Martel 1890 Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Mary Sue Cantrell Massad Fund
• Louise Roblee McCarthy Memorial Fund
• Emma C. McCauley Fund
• The McCormick Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Richard H. McDonald Fund
• James S. McDonnell Fund
• Janet C. McGean Fund
• Madrigale M. McKeever Fund
• Maude McKinnon Fund
• Elizabeth L. Geiger McMahon Fund
• William C. McVail Scholarship Fund
• M. Frances Jewell McVey Fund
• J. Warren Merrill Fund
• Caroline Henshaw Metcalf Fund
• Michigan Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Minnesota-Dakota Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• William Mitchell Fund
• Mohawk Valley Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Mary E. Monroe Fund
• Mary H. Morgan Fund
• Eugenia Tuttle Morris Fund
• James B. and Emma M. Morrison Fund
• Maude Morrison Fund
• Christine Morgan Morton Fund
• Samuel Munson Fund
• John Murra Endowed Scholarship
• Janet Murray 1931 Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Arthur T. Nelson Jr. Endowed Scholarship
• Mary Nelson Fund
• Sylvia and Harry Nelson Fund
• Gretchen Hawkins Nelson and Sylvia Allen Nelson Fund
• New York Aid Fund
• Pauline Newman ‘47 Scholarship Fund
• Virginia Shafroth Newton 1941 Fund
• Elizabeth Singer Nicholson Memorial Fund
• Nickerson-Elwell Scholarship Fund
• Philip Nochlin Memorial Fund
• Jacqueline Nolte ‘48 Scholarship
• North Carolina Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Jean Anderson O’Neil Fund
• Florence White Olivet Fund
• Mary Olmstead Fund
• Marian Woodward Ottley Fund
• Ouyang Family Scholarship
• Lydia Babbott Paddon and Richard Paddon Fund
• Mary Cornelia Palmer Fund
• Mary Baldwin Peacock ‘50 Memorial Scholarship
• Mabel Pearse Fund
• Honoro G. Pelton Fund
• Michael W. and Catharine Walker Percopo ‘46 Fund
• Emma M. Perkins Fund
• Florence Clinton Perkins Fund
• Viva S. Perkins Fund
• Matilda C. Perry Fund
• Dorothy Persh Scholarship
• Elisabeth Petschek de Picciotto 1950 Fund
• Philadelphia Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Frances W. Pick Fund
• Mary Ellen and Bruce Eben Pindyck Fund
• Plapinger Family Scholarship
• Porges Family Scholarship
• Poughkeepsie Community Fund
• Michael and Robin Conway Poulos ‘97 Scholarship Fund
• Sarah Goddard Power Memorial Fund
• President’s International Advisory Council Scholarship
• Andrew Price III Memorial Scholarship
• Luise Morgenschweis Pugh ‘52 Scholarship
• Putnam Family Scholarship
• Queen Marie Scholarship Fund
• Elizabeth McCandless Rainey Fund
• Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Fund
• Dr. Ruth Shoer Rappaport ‘59 Scholarship Fund
• Frances Helen Rawson Fund
• John H. Raymond Fund
• Ellen Roth Reisman Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Richard Reitknecht ‘87 Scholarship
• Dr. Catherine Rendon Scholarship Fund
• Emma A. Rice Fund
• Julia A. Richards Fund
• Delia Rosanna Robbins Fund
• Paul C. Roberts Fund
• Steven and Kimberly Roberts Scholarship
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Fund
• Sandra Priest Rose Fund
• Rossheim Memorial Fund: Dorothy, Sarah and Joseph B. Rossheim
• Barbara Hirsch Rosston Scholarship Endowment
• Lucile Cross Russell Fund
• Alexander and Mary Ellen Saunders Fund
• Harriet Sawyer Fund
• Scholarship Endowment in Support of Need Blind Admissions
• Ann Weinfeld Schulman Memorial Scholarship
• Edna Bryner Schwab Fund
• Alice McAfee Scott Fund
• Miriam Tannhauser McNair Scott Scholarship Fund for Art History
• Esther Sears Fund
• Ruth Sedgwick Fund
• Henrietta Buckler Seiberling Music Fund
• Senior Class Gift-Scholarship Fund
• Pamela Geraci Shaftell ‘66 Scholarship
• Janet Warren Shaw Fund
• Mary E. Shepard Fund
• Lorraine Robell Sherman ‘50 Scholarship Fund
• Susan Stein Shiva Fund
• Janet Gerdes Short ‘40 Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Lydia M. Short Fund
• Dorothy Linder Silberberg Fund
• Linda Sipress Scholarship
• James T. and Gertrude M. Skelly Fund
• Anna Margaret and Mary Sloan Fund
• Carol Houck Smith Scholarship Fund for the Arts and Humanities
• Eric M. Smith ‘92 Memorial Scholarship
• Henrietta T. Smith Scholarship
• Jane Prouty Smith Fund
• Reba Morehouse Smith Fund
• Margaret Davenport Sneden Scholarship Fund
• Beatrice and Harold Snyder Scholarship Fund
• Nina Spiegelman ‘76 and Anthony Fusaro Endowed Scholarship
• Blanche Brumback Spitzer Fund
• Kittie M. Spring Fund
• The Spruill Family Scholarship
• Carol L. Stahl Fund
• Catharine P. Stanton Fund
• Louise J. Starkweather Fund
• Mary Isabella Starr Fund
• Florence Finley Stay Scholarship
• Lucy W. Stedman Fund
• Mary Betty Stevens, M.D. Scholarship Fund
• Clara Sax Strasburger Fund
• Anne Youngclaus Stratton Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Mary and Harry Streep Scholarship
• The Meryl Streep ‘71 Scholarship
• Ernest and Elsie Sturm Fund
• Summer Institute of Euthenics Scholarship Fund
• Solon E. Summerfield Fund
• Diana Ward Sumner Fund
• Mary Louise Allyn Sunderland ‘43 Scholarship Fund
• Surdna Foundation Scholarship Fund
• Helen B. Sweeney Fund
• Marian Stanley Sweet Fund
• Texas Scholarship Fund
• Florence White Thomas Fund
• Mary Rogers Thomas Memorial Fund
• Sarah and Elizabeth Thomas Fund
• Adalyn Thompson Fund
• John Thompson and Benson Van Vliet Fund
• Mildred Thompson Fund
• Ada Thurston Fund
• Charlotte F.K. Townsend Fund
• Emily Allison Townsend Fund
• Margaret Pope Trask Endowment Fund
• Jane B. Tripp Fund
• Thomas Tsao ‘86 Memorial Fund
• Cordelia F. Turrell Fund
• Ruth Updegraff Scholarship Fund
• Dr. Helen Van Alstine Scholarship Fund
• Janet Graham Van Alstyne 1922 Scholarship Fund
• Esther Ruth Van Demark Fund
• Yannis Pavlos Vardinoyannis Fund
• Vassar 150: World Changing Scholarship Fund
• Matthew Vassar Auxiliary Fund
• Vassar Changemakers Scholarship
• Vassar Club of Boston Endowed Scholarship
• Vassar Club of New York City Scholarship Fund
• Vassar Club of St. Louis Fund
• Vassar Club of Washington, DC, Book Sale Scholarship Endowment
• Vassar College/Maria Mitchell Association Endowment Fund
• Vassar Veterans Scholarship Program 
• Matthew Vassar Jr. Fund
• John and Barbara Vogelstein Scholars Fund
• Barbara Manfrey Vogelstein ‘76 Scholarship
• Stellene Volandes ‘93 Annual Scholarship Fund
• Valerie Vondermuhll Fund
• Harriett F. Hubbell Vossler Fund
• Annetta O’Brien Walker Fund
• Cornelia Walker Fund
• Nora Ann Wallace ‘73 Scholarship
• Dr. Caroline F. Ware Fund
• Anne Bonner Warren ‘50 and LeRoy R. Warren Memorial Scholarship
• Washington State Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Waterman-Neu Fund for Disadvantaged Students
• Watkins-Elting Scholarship Fund
• Susan DeBevoise and Elizabeth Watson DeBevoise Endowed Scholarship
• Christopher Howland Webber ‘05 Memorial Scholarship
• Elizabeth Wylie Webster Fund
• Martha Gaines Wehrle Scholarship
• Theodora Zopko Wei ‘64 Endowed Scholarship
• Mary C. Welborn Fund
• Emma Galpin Welch Fund
• Agnes B. and Elizabeth E. Wellington Fund
• Jill Troy Werner ‘71 Endowed Scholarship
• Clara Pray West Fund
• Westchester Vassar Club Endowment Fund
• Dorothy Marioneaux Whatley 1916 Scholarship Fund
• Martha McChesney Wilkinson & Ruth Chandler Moore Class of 1918 Fund
• Lois P. Williams ‘16 Scholarship Endowment
• Edward and Elizabeth Williamson Fund
• Katharine Mathiot Williston Fund
• John F. Willson and Fanny G. Willson Scholarship Fund
• Florence Ogden Wilson Fund
• Keattch & Wilson ‘82 Annual Scholarship
• Woodrow Wilson Fund
• Winbrook Scholarship Fund
• Lucy Madeira Wing Fund
• Annie Carpenter Winter Fund
• Halston Wong Scholarship
• David, Helen and Marian Woodward Fund and Marian Woodward Ottley Fund
• Dr. Gladys Winter Yegen Fund
• Mary Stout Young Fund
• Jacob Ziskind Fund
• Professor Anita Zorzoli Scholarship Endowment
• 75th Anniversary Scholarship Fund

Fellowships

A limited number of fellowships are available for graduate study. The fellowship funds have been established by friends of the college to encourage Vassar graduates to continue their studies in the United States or abroad, either in work toward an advanced degree or in the creative arts. Since the stipends do not cover the full amount needed for graduate work, applicants are strongly advised to apply simultaneously for outside grants. For information concerning graduate fellowships, students should consult their departmental advisor or the director of the Office for Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising.

Members of the graduating class and recent graduates of Vassar College are eligible as specified under each fellowship. Applications should be made before February of the year for which you are applying, to the Committee on Fellowships. Application forms for all Vassar fellowships are available on the Office for Fellowships website.

Vassar College Fellowships

• Mary Richardson and Lydia Pratt Babbott Fellowship
• Katherine Jones Baker Fellowship-Biological sciences, medicine, chemistry, or physics
• Phyllis Hunt Belisle-Mathematics
• Eliza Buffington Fellowship-Research
• Ann Cornelisen Fellowship for Undergraduate Students-for study of a current spoken language in any country outside the United States, preferably in conjunction with an interest in sociology, diplomatic service or international law
• Ann Cornelisen Fund for Post-Graduate Fellowships
• Nancy Skinner Clark Fellowship-Biology
• DeGolier Fellowship
• Eloise Ellery Fellowship
• Dorothy A. Evans Fellowship
• The Oppi Handler Fellowship
• Elizabeth Skinner Hubbard Fellowship-Religion
• James Ryland and Georgia A. Kendrick Fellowship
• Abby Leach Memorial Fellowship-Greek history, archaeology, art, literature
• Maguire Fellowship-Study in another country in which a student can pursue his or her special interests in the humanities, broadly defined
• Helen Brown Nicholas and John Spangler Nicholas Fellowship-Science at Yale University
• Mary Pemberton Nourse Fellowship-Medicine, social work, public health
• Margaret C. Peabody Fellowship-International relations
• Helen Dwight Reid Fellowship-lnternational relations
• Mary Landon Sague Fellowship-Chemistry
• Belle Skinner Fellowship-Study of history in France
• Adolph Sutro Fellowship
• Elinor Wardle Squier Townsend Fellowship-Art, preferably abroad
• The Elsie Van Dyck DeWitt Scholarship Fund
• Louise Hart Van Loon Fellowship
• Margaret Floy Washburn Fund-Psychology
• Emilie Louise Wells Fellowship-Economics

W. K. Rose Fellowship

This fellowship is made possible by a bequest from the estate of W. K. Rose, a distinguished scholar and teacher who was a member of the Vassar English Department from 1953 until his untimely death in the fall of 1968. Its object is to provide a worthy young artist with a chance to be free after college to pursue his/her work as an artist. All Vassar graduating seniors and Vassar alumni under the age of 36 at the time of the deadline who demonstrated a creative talent in their years of undergraduate study, who are not presently employed by the college, and who have not already attained substantial recognition in their field will be considered eligible. Applications are available on the Office for Fellowships website.

Academic Internship Funds

The funds listed below help support Vassar’s endowment for academic internships in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Students do not apply for specific endowed funds; rather, they apply for participation in either the URSI or Ford Scholars academic internship programs.

• Mr. and Mrs. Noah Barnhart, Jr. Fund for Academic Internships in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Gabrielle Snyder Beck Fund
• Elise Nichols Bloch 1903 and Margaret Sawyer Bloch 1936 Fellowship
• Class of 1942 Fund for the Environmental Sciences
• Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Fund
• Terry Gordon Lee ‘43 Memorial Internship Fund
• The New York Community Trust-The John L. Weinberg Fund for Academic Interns
• The Olmsted Fund
• Bruce Eben and Mary Ellen Pindyck Internship in Art
• Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation Fund
• C. V. Starr Foundation Fund
• Stern Goldin Family Summer Internship
• The Strauss/Murdoch Family Fund