Concordia College, a liberal arts college in Moorhead, Minnesota, gives admitted first-year students an Excellence Scholarship. It is an automatic academic award whose amount follows the high school GPA or ACT score.
Incoming transfer students get a Transfer Excellence version based on their college GPA. The award is subtracted from tuition and forms the base of each financial aid package.
Benefits & funding
- $13,500–$19,500 a year for students first enrolling in Fall 2027 ($13,000–$19,000 for Fall 2026); $54,000–$78,000 over four years.
- Top amount: GPA 3.97+ or ACT 33+; lowest: GPA 3.00 or below or ACT 21 or below.
- Partial award: tuition alone was $31,600 in 2025–26.
- Awarded aid is paid only while enrolled full time (at least 12 credits).
Eligibility
- Admitted to Concordia as an incoming first-year or transfer undergraduate.
- No minimum GPA or score: every admitted student receives an amount.
- Transfers: the tier follows college GPA; the high school record also counts below 60 college credits.
- No citizenship rule is stated; international students are pointed to separate International Student Scholarships.
- No institutional scholarships for master’s or Accelerated Nursing programs.
Application process
- 1Apply for admission through Concordia’s own application or the Common App; test scores are optional.
- 2No separate scholarship application: the amount usually arrives with the admission notification.
- 3File the FAFSA (code 002346) to add need-based aid; international students do not file it.
Program timeline
apply by this date for the separate $500-a-year Priority Cobber award
Nov 15, 2026
With the admission decision
award amount notified
these amounts apply to new entrants
Fall 2027