Awards and Scholarships
Awards
Left to right; Katelyn Haley, Adrianna Cauble-Terry, Shan Ni Wang, Ava Poole) Back Row: Professor Rupp, John Osborne (Alumni), Brent Humann, Adegboyega Jubril
for 2025-2026
Outstanding Graduate Student
Miya Huang
for 2024-2025
Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Student
Dylan Thorne
for 2024-2025
Scholarships
The Harold C. Troxler Graduate Fellowship
This fellowship is to support students in the Economics program seeking graduate education through the MS degree in Quantitative Economics and Econometrics.
Adegboyega Jubril
for 2025-2026
The Economics Outstanding Achievement Scholarship
This scholarship is a merit based award to a rising senior majoring in Economics, must be enrolled full time. Selection will be based on intellectual achievement, extra-curricular involvement, leadership, and other personal merits. Minimum GPA of 3.5 required. Scholarship amount varies annually.
Katelyn Haley
for 2025-2026
The Economics Advancement Council Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to a rising senior majoring in Economics. Based on demonstrated financial need and recipient must have at least a 2.0 GPA and be enrolled full time. Scholarship amount varies annually.
Cooper Hilbert
for 2025-2026
The Dr. Marjorie Baldwin Scholarship
This scholarship will be awarded to students who are pursuing majoring in Economics. First preference will be given to applicants with demonstrated leadership within and dedication to the field of Economics plus demonstrated potential and promise, even if not yet realized, in the field of Economics.
The Dr. Randall Parker Economics Scholarship
This scholarship will be awarded to students in the Department of Economics who have maintained a minimum GPA of 3.2, demonstrate financial need, and have shown evidence of leadership potential on campus and within the Economic Department.
Adrianna Cauble-Terry
for 2025-2026
Brent Humann
for 2025-2026
Ava Poole
for 2025-2026
Shan Ni Wang
for 2025-2026
Social Science Scholars
Social Science Scholars is a unique scholarship opportunity for Honors- and EC Scholars-eligible students who wish to study the following areas at ECU: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Geography, Planning, and Environment, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Social Science Scholars benefit from a generous scholarship award beyond the scholarship and benefits awarded by the Honors College and/or EC Scholars. Freshmen Social Science Scholars will live and learn in the Honors College residence environment. For additional information about the Social Science Scholars Program, please contact Dr. Lester Zeager, Professor of Economics, at zeagerl@ecu.edu or 252-328-6408.
University Scholarships
East Carolina University has a variety of scholarships available to incoming freshmen, transfer students and existing students. Effective October 2014, the process for applying for scholarships on our campus changed. The university now utilizes an on-line application portal for most of the scholarships offered to both incoming and existing students.
Opportunities can be located by visiting the ECU On-line Scholarship Management System – ECUAWard. Applicants use their ECU credentials (Pirate ID and password) to gain access to the general scholarship application. Please note that the Honors College has a separate, invitation-only, process outside of the ECUAWard system.
Instructions for using the ECUAWard portal
National and International Scholarships
Department of Economics highly recommend economics majors to consider applying for National and International scholarships, including:
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Benjamin Gilman Scholarship
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- Marshall Scholarships
- Charles B. Rangel Scholarship
- Gates Millenium Scholarship
- Golden Key Scholarship
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
- Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Udall Scholarship