Field of Study Scholarship
The Field of Study Scholarship is designed to support students who are pursuing one of our designated programs at USF. This scholarship recognizes your interest in specific fields of study and aims to provide financial support as you work toward your academic and career goals. Below, you'll find key details about the scholarship’s eligibility requirements and how it can benefit your academic journey.
Eligibility
- You must be a new, first-time, first-year student admitted to fall 2025 or later
- You must be enrolled in one of the eligible majors (list below) by the fall census date of your first semester at USF. The fall census date is always the third Friday after fall classes start.
- In other words, this scholarship is based on whichever major you're enrolled in at the fall census date (the third Friday after classes start) of your first semester at USF.
- You must maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) to continue receiving the scholarship.
Eligible Majors
The following majors are eligible for the Field of Study Scholarship:
- Accounting
- Finance
- Business Analytics
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- History
- Philosophy
- English
- Theology and Religious Studies
If you change to a major outside this eligible list, the scholarship will not continue.
Changing Your Major
The Field of Study Scholarship is a four-year scholarship offered starting in fall 2025 to new, incoming first-year students who are enrolled in one of the eligible majors by the fall census date of their first semester at USF. If you change your major to a non-eligible major, you will not receive the scholarship. If you change your mind later in your college career and change back to an eligible major, you will not receive the scholarship.
Remember, the "cutoff date" is the fall census date of your first semester at USF. It doesn’t matter if you change your major back by future census dates, the first census date is the deadline used for the purposes of this scholarship.
For example:
You’ve been admitted as a first-year student to the History major (one of the eligible majors) for fall 2025. For fall 2025, the census date is Friday, September 5 (the third Friday after classes start).
If you change your major to a non-eligible major before September 5, 2025, you will not receive the scholarship for fall 2025 and all future terms at USF, even if you later change your major back to an eligible major.
If you change your major to a non-eligible major after September 5, 2025, you will receive the scholarship for fall 2025, but not for spring 2026 and all future terms at USF, even if you later change your major back to an eligible major.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you change your major before the fall census date of your first semester at USF: Your new major determines your eligibility.
- If you change to another eligible major, you'll keep the scholarship.
- If you change to a non-eligible major, you won’t receive the scholarship.
If you change your major after the fall census date of your first semester at USF to a non-eligible major, you will not receive the scholarship starting the following spring term.
If you change your major before the fall census date of your first semester at USF to an eligible major, you will receive the scholarship starting the following spring term.
If you change your major after the fall census date of your first semester at USF to an eligible major, you will not receive this scholarship.
No. You must be enrolled in an eligible major by the fall census date of your very first semester as a USF student to qualify for this scholarship. Changing to an eligible major in your second semester or later year will not make you eligible.
The fall census date is the third Friday of the fall term after classes start. This is the official date when your major is recorded for the purposes of this scholarship.
Yes, as long as your primary major at USF is still one of the eligible majors, you will continue to receive the scholarship, provided you meet all other eligibility requirements.
SAP includes maintaining a minimum GPA and passing a sufficient number of credits each semester. Learn more about SAP here.
Office of Financial Aid
Physical Address:
2800 Turk Blvd, Lone Mountain Main 203
San Francisco, CA 94118
Mailing Address:
Attn: Financial Aid
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, LMM 203, San Francisco, CA 94117
Scholarship Checks:
Attn: Student Accounts
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, LMM 203, San Francisco, CA 94117