Grants & Scholarships
For Seminary Programs
Portland Seminary is grateful to our generous donors for their faithful contributions that allow us to offer scholarship support for students seeking a seminary degree. All students in need of financial aid are encouraged to apply.
Questions? Check with your enrollment counselor for more information.
Eligibility
Several scholarship/grant programs are available for eligible students. Unless otherwise specified, students must be enrolled with four credit hours or more each semester in order to be eligible for a scholarship or grant.
How to Apply
Visit our to apply for donor-funded scholarships for the upcoming academic year. The application includes a series of questions and two personal statement essays to be answered, completed and submitted.
Your single application is then matched against the criteria for over a dozen scholarships. Once matched, the Scholarship Committee reviews all applications and essays to choose the most qualified recipients, using the donor's requested criteria.
Scholarships
Thank you to the families and organizations who have generously provided the following scholarships:
- Brose Scholarship
- Julius Clifton Bruner Scholarship Fund
- Clapp Scholarship
- Delamarter Scholarship
- Farmer Family Scholarship
- Ministry to Underserved Populations
- Hawks Ministerial Scholarship
- Ketterling-Schlenker Memorial Scholarship Fund
- Clara and Harlan Macy Memorial Scholarship
- Chuan Cheng Morrisey Missions Memorial Scholarship Fund
- H.W. and Wilma Ogden Scholarship
- Ost Scholarship
- Richard Parker Scholarship
- Perisho Scholarship
- John and Emma Pike Scholarship
- Arthur T. Shelton Scholarship Fund
- Strong Scholarship
- Lydia C. Sundberg Memorial Fund
- Glenn and Allee Yoder Memorial Scholarship
Finding Outside Scholarships
External scholarships are a good resource for financial aid, and there are several scholarship opportunities for students from sources outside Portland Seminary.
If a student is associated with a denomination, they are encouraged to inquire with their denomination about possible scholarship or grant opportunities. In addition, students can locate scholarships through online searches. Students should never pay a fee in order to apply for a scholarship.
Two external free scholarship search options are and . You can also visit our Scholarship Resource Center for information on finding outside aid to help pay for school.
Note: If a student secures an external scholarship/grant of any kind, the student must report that scholarship/grant to the financial aid office through their portal.