The American Institute of CPAs has opened applications for nearly $1,000,000 in scholarships that look to support future CPAs and the pipeline of accounting candidates.
A variety of scholarships — spanning high school, college, and graduate students — are available. The deadline to apply for most scholarships is March 1, 2022.
“The AICPA is committed to fostering and developing the pipeline of students studying accounting and finance, as well as others pursuing CPA licensing and/or the CGMA credential,” said Jan Taylor, academic-in-residence and senior director of academic and student engagement at the AICPA, in a statement. “We want to support and encourage the next generation of licensed and credentialed accountants both by offering financial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students and to qualified exam candidates, and working to ensure there is a strong supply of qualified educators to teach them.”
Available scholarships include:
- The AICPA Foundation High School Scholarship: Provides $2,000 for up to 10 high school seniors who have taken advanced high school accounting and who intend to continue accounting studies at an accredited college or university.
- American Woman’s Society of CPAs Scholarship Award: Offers $5,000 for up to four women pursuing accounting degrees.
- AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship Award: Offers $5,000 for up to five non-accounting or business degree holders pursuing a graduate degree in accounting.
- AICPA Scholarship Award for Minority Accounting Students: Provides $3,000 to $10,000 to approximately 90 outstanding minority students to encourage future study of accounting.
- AICPA Foundation Two-Year Transfer Scholarship Award: Provides $3,000 to $5,000 to up to 25 students transferring from a two-year school to a four-year program to complete their accounting degree.
- AICPA Foundation Scholarship for Future CPAs: Offers $5,000 to $10,000 for up to 25 students interested in pursuing their CPA license after graduation.
- The Minority Doctoral Fellowship Program: Provides $12,000 to 25 students, renewable for up to an additional four years (assuming students continue to meet
eligibility requirements ), and is intended to bolster racial and ethnic diversity among accounting educators at colleges and universities. - The William (Bill) Ezzell Scholarship program: Offers an annual award of $10,000 to five accounting Ph.D. candidates who demonstrate significant potential to become mentors for the next generation of CPAs.
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