Scholarships for Humanities Majors

A degree in the humanities can open the doors to a sorts of careers. Students majoring in the humanities can go on to become journalists, lawyers, historians, writers, filmmakers, editors and more, depending on their interests and skills. A scholarship can help you to cover that cost of your humanities degree. Perhaps the most prestigious scholarship for humanities majors is the Beinecke Scholarship, which requires potential recipients to be nominated by their college. Other available scholarships are funded by individual universities, including San Francisco State University, Ohio State University, Montana State University and the University of Utah. In order to apply to any of these scholarships, students may need to write an application essay, provide a portfolio of their work or meet a minimum GPA. If you’re a humanities major and you’d like to learn more about scholarships that you may be eligible for, continue reading below.

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Christine Schaefer Theatre Scholarship Hancock County Community Foundation
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  • 500
  • 1 award
  • March 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Major: Study |Education|Theatre|
  • Organization: KidsPlay, Inc. (Club)|Crazy Lake Act Teen Workshop (Club)
  • Age / Grade Level: |High school senior|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships Organization of American Historians
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  • 60,000
  • 6 awards
  • September 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Humanities|Humanistic social sciences|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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Paul Collins Scholarship Grand Rapids Community Foundation
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  • 500 - 5,000
  • 1 award
  • Apr-1-2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +2 More
  • Major: Study |Fine Arts|Applied Arts|
  • Residence: Live in |Kent, MI|
  • School (College): Attend |Aquinas College (MI)|Calvin College (MI)|Grand Rapids Community College (MI)|Grand Valley State University (MI)|Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University (MI)|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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Inez Eleanor Radell National Graduate Fellowship American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
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  • 1,000 - 5,000
  • 1 award
  • January 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Design|Construction|Marketing of Apparel|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 1.5
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The R.L. Gillette Scholarship American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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  • 1,000
  • 2 awards
  • April 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Music|Literature|
  • Disability: |Legally Blind|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|Naturalized U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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Fionna and Richard Perkins Scholarship Fund Community Foundation of Mendocino County
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  • 500
  • 1 award
  • January 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Art|
  • Residence: |Mendocino Coast|
  • School (College): Attend |Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 1.5
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ACLS Public Fellows Program Organization of American Historians
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  • 65,000
  • 21 awards
  • March 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Humanities|Humanistic social sciences|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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ACLS Fellowships Organization of American Historians
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  • 65,000
  • 21 awards
  • March 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Humanities|Humanistic social sciences|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program Carpey Law
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  • 17,000
  • 50 awards
  • Jan-15-2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +2 More
  • Major: Study |Engineering|Business Administration|Nursing|Mathematics|Business|Agriculture|Health Sciences|Computer Science|Performing Arts|Biology|Chemistry|Physics|Psychology|Visual Arts|Arts and Sciences|Marine Biology|
  • Ethnicity: Be |Hispanic|African American/Black|
  • School (College): Attend |University of Florida (FL)|Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FL)|University of Central Florida (FL)|Florida Atlantic University (FL)|Florida Institute of Technology (FL)|University of Miami (FL)|Florida International University (FL)|University of South Florida (FL)|Florida State University (FL)|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 2.0
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Boston Society of Landscape Architects Student Scholarships Landscape Architecture Foundation
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  • 2,000
  • 6 awards
  • March 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Landscape Architecture|
  • Organization: Associated with the |American Society of Landscape Architects Student Society|
  • School (College): Attend a college in |Maine|Massachusetts|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 5.0
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American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows Scholarship Landscape Architecture Foundation
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  • 5,000
  • 3 awards
  • February 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +4 More
  • Major: Study |Landscape Architecture|
  • Organization: Associated with the |American Society of Landscape Architects Student Society|
  • Residence: |Permanent Legal U.S. Resident|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 4.5
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Peridian International, Inc./Rae L. Price, FASLA Scholarship Landscape Architecture Foundation
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  • 5,000
  • 1 award
  • Feb-15-2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +1 More
  • Major: Study |Landscape Architecture|
  • School (College): Attend |California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)|UCLA Extension, Westwood (CA)|
  • Citizenship: |U.S. Citizen|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 1.0
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CBC Spouses Visual Arts Scholarship Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
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  • 3,000
  • 1 award
  • April 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +4 More
  • Major: Study |Decorative Arts|Architecture|Interior Design|Visual Arts|Photography|Graphic Design|Illustration|Drawing|Painting|Ceramics|Film-making/video Production|Fashion|Sketching|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Ethnicity: Be |African American/Black|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 5.0
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Acls/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships For Recently Tenured Scholars American Academy in Rome
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  • 95,000
  • 1 award
  • September 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Major: Study |Humanities|Social Science|
  • School (K-12): Attend a school in |Washington, DC|
  • Residence: Live in |Rome, Italy|Worcester, MA|Stanford, CA|San Marino, CA|Princeton, NJ|Budapest, Hungary|Research Triangle Park, NC|Chicago, IL|Cambridge, MA|Uppsala, Sweden|Florence, Italy|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 2.0
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CBC Spouses Heineken USA Performing Arts Scholarship Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
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  • 3,000
  • 10 awards
  • April 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +4 More
  • Major: Study |Performing Arts|
  • Residence: |Permanent U.S. Resident|
  • Ethnicity: Be |African American/Black|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 5.0
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Dr. & Mrs. Yang Ho Rhee Scholarship Community Foundation of the Great River Bend
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  • 2,000
  • 1 award
  • February 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +2 More
  • Major: Study |Art|
  • School (K-12): Attend a school in |Scott, IA|
  • Residence: Live in |Rock Island, IL|
  • competition 1.0
  • effort level 5.0
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Louis Armstrong Scholarship at The University of New Orleans American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation
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  • n/a
  • 1 award
  • n/a
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Major: Study |Music|
  • Character Trait: Show |Musicianship|
  • competition 4.0
  • effort level 1.0
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Fellowships at the Winterthur Organization of American Historians
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  • n/a
  • 1 award
  • January 2025
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Major: Study |Decorative Arts|Architecture|Design|Material Culture|Consumer Culture|Garden and Landscape Studies|Cultural History|
  • competition 4.0
  • effort level 1.0
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Dr. Robert Hawkins Memorial Scholarship The John Philip Sousa Foundation
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  • 1,000
  • 1 award
  • n/a
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Major: Study |Music Education|Instrumental Music|
  • Residence: Live in |United States|
  • School (College): Attend an |University|College|
  • competition 4.0
  • effort level 5.0
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Structural Engineering/Architect Student Scholarship Program Scholarship America
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  • n/a
  • 1 award
  • n/a
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: +2 More
  • Major: Study |Architecture|Construction Management|Structural Engineering|
  • School (College): |California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)|North Carolina State University (NC)|Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)|Arizona State University (AZ)|University of Michigan (MI)|Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN|Texas Tech University (TX)|Washington State University (WA)|University of Florida (FL)|California State UniversityFullerton (CA)|University of Arizona (AZ)|Pennsylvania State University (PA)|University of Southern California (CA)|California State University-Long Beach (CA)|University of Miami (FL)|Florida International University (FL)|Iowa State University (IA)|University of Cincinnati (OH)|Clemson University (SC)|Milwaukee School of Engineering (WI)|Oregon State University (OR)|Boise State University (ID)|Brigham Young University (UT)|California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (CA)|California State University, Fresno (CA)|California State University, Fullerton (CA)|California State University, Long Beach (CA)|California State University, Sacramento (CA)|Louisiana State University (LA)|New York University Tandon School of Engineering, New York (NY)|Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)|Oklahoma State University (OK)|Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)|Penn State University (PA)|Portland State University (OR)|Southern California Institute of Architecture (CA)|University of California, Berkeley (CA)|University of California, Davis (CA)|University of California, Irvine (CA)|University of California, Los Angeles (CA)|University of California, San Diego (CA)|University of Idaho (ID)|University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign (IL)|University of Nevada, Las Vegas (NV)|University of North Texas (TX)|University of Texas, Arlington (TX)|University of Texas, Austin (TX)|University of Washington (WA)|University of Wyoming (WY)|Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)|Brigham Young UniversityHawaii (HI)|California State UniversityFresno (CA)|California State University-Sacramento (CA)|NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering|Dominican University of California (CA)|
  • Extracurricular: |School Activities|Community Activities|Work Activities|
  • competition 4.0
  • effort level 1.0
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