Best Scholarships for Coast Guard Members
The Best Scholarships for Members of the U.S. Coast Guard and Families
Whether you’re active duty, reserve, or a family member, your affiliation with the U.S. Coast Guard may make you eligible for academic scholarships you can use to study at military-friendly colleges.
Coast Guard Foundation Scholarship: Enlisted Member Dependent Children – First Time Applicants
Awards: Up to $5,000 (multiple awards)
Who’s Eligible: For children of active duty, retired, or active reserve Coast Guard members.
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Coast Guard Foundation Scholarship: Enlisted Member Dependent Children – Returning Applicants
Awards: Up to $5,000 (multiple awards.)
Who’s Eligible: For children of active duty, retired, or active reserve Coast Guard members who are returning/renewal applicants.
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Coast Guard Foundation Fallen Heroes Scholarship
Awards: Varies
Who’s Eligible: For enrolled college students, or college bound students who are currently unmarried dependent children of enlisted and commissioned men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard who lost their lives in Coast Guard land, air, or sea operations. Applicants must be under the age of 23 and working on their first undergraduate degree.
Deadline: Candidates may apply at any time.
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Coast Guard Foundation Spouses of Coast Guard Members Scholarships
Awards: 10 awards of up to $2,000 each.
Who’s Eligible: For spouses of enlisted Coast Guard Members pursuing a degree or professional certificate.
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Coast Guard Foundation Coast Guard Reserve Families Scholarship
Awards: Amounts vary
Who’s Eligible: For both Reservists and their family members who are pursuing higher education to pay for things like books, lab fees, and technical equipment.
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The Colona Scholarship
Awards: Multiple $1,000 awards.
Who’s Eligible: For dependent children of enlisted members of the United States Coast Guard (active, retired, or reserve) who are pursuing a 4-year undergraduate degree and who carry at least a “C” average.
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The Keller Scholarship
Awards: $1,000, multiple awards.
Who’s Eligible: For dependent children of members in good standing or who were members in good standing of the CWOA, United States Coast Guard at the time of their death. These scholarships are for higher education.
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Captain Ernest W. Fox Perpetual Scholarship
Award: Past amounts have been awarded up to $2,000
Who’s Eligible: For qualified active duty Coast Guard, civil service employee personnel or their dependents at the Coast Guard Aviation Logistic Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
The scholarship can be used for preparatory, collegiate, postgraduate, professional and vocational education, formal or informal training.
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