Fellowships & Scholarships

Austin College is known for attracting high-achieving high school students, who (of course) go on to be high-achieving college students.

Big Awards

Austin College has an astonishing rate of success for an institution our size, or any size. In the last five years we have produced:

Boren Scholarship Winners

Barry M. Goldwater Scholars

Udall Fellows

NSF Graduate Research Fellows

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National Fellowship & Scholarship Opportunities

Fulbright

America’s flagship international exchange initiative.

Join the more than 96,000 outstanding Americans now providing leadership in virtually all sectors of U.S. society.

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Teach For America

Training outstanding leaders, who commit to expanding educational opportunity, beginning with at least two years of teaching in an under-resourced public school.

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Peace Corps

One of only a few in the nation, the Austin College Peace Corps Preparation Program (PCPP) prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to serve in the Peace Corps.

Peace Corps Prep Program

Additional National Fellowships

Gilman Scholarship	Boren Scholarship	Goldwater Scholarship
Marshall Scholarship	Rhodes Scholarship	Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Americorps Vista	The Bridge Scholarship	Critical Language Scholarship
Truman Scholarship	JET Program	Udall Scholarship
	National Science Foundation Fellowship

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Meet our Finalists & Recipients

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Austin College Honors

Departmental Honors

The Departmental Honors Program is designed to challenge superior students in their final year of undergraduate study to use their disciplinary training to delve deeper into a topic of interest in the major. The program emphasizes independent investigation and culminates in completion of a bachelor’s thesis or special research project.

Honors Program Celebrates Students and 60th Anniversary

Austin College celebrated 26 students and their successful completion of the invitation-only Departmental Honors Program—as well as the program’s 60th anniversary.

Honor Societies

Honor Societies are created to recognize outstanding academic achievements of students upon fulfillment of requirements and criteria set by the individual organization. Below is a list of honor societies with chapters at Austin College.

Alpha Chi

Alpha Chi (AC) is a national honorary society devoted to the promotion and recognition of scholarship effective among the undergraduate students in the academic division of the colleges and universities in the United States. Each year the faculty elects to the Alpha Chi membership the appropriate number of qualified candidates. Candidates for Alpha Chi are elected from the top ten percent of the senior class and the top five percent of the junior class.

Alpha Psi Omega

Beta Beta Beta

Delta Omicron

Delta Phi Alpha

Eta Sigma Phi

Omicron Delta Epsilon

Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Sigma Iota

Phi Sigma Iota (FSI)is the national foreign language honor society. This society recognizes outstanding ability and high standards in the fields of foreign languages, literatures, and cultures. Members must be junior and senior undergraduate students of foreign languages who have at least a “B” average in their entire college work and all foreign language courses.

Pi Delta Phi

Pi Delta Phi (PDF) is a national honor society in French for advanced students of the French language and literature. To be eligible for membership a student must have the equivalent of a “B” average for all courses taken and must have gone into advanced French courses. Thus recognition is given to excellent scholarship in general and to scholarship in the French language and literature in particular.