Scholarships

VIST offers the academic-merit scholarships to qualified students. The academic-merit scholarship will be used to pay the portion of the student’s tuition and fees. The qualification of academic-merit scholarships are described as follows:

A.    President Scholarship of $5,000.00 in total ($2,500 per year):

Students are eligible if they receive a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related IT major from an accredited university or college with a GPA of 3.9 or above (on a 4.0 GPA scale) and enroll at VIST as full-time students with 9 credit hours per quarter. Students also must keep their GPA of 3.9 or above in order to continue to receive this fellowship award. Students who receive a Presidential Scholarship award will be granted $5,000 per year. VIST will fund 1 Presidential Scholarship each term, totaling 4 annually.

B.    Dean Scholarship of $2,000.00 ($1,000 per year):

Students are eligible if they receive a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related IT major from an accredited university or college with a GPA of 3.75 or above (on a 4.0 GPA scale) and enroll at VIST as full-time students with 9 credit hours per quarter. Students also must keep their GPA of 3.75 or above in order to continue to receive this scholarship award. Students who receive a Dean Scholarship award will be granted $2,000 per year. VIST will fund 1 Dean Scholarship scholarships each term, totaling 4 annually.