State grants in Nevada
Silver State Opportunity Grant:
The Silver State Opportunity Grant is a need based program for low income Nevada students. The awards for the grant will be based on the total cost of attendance, Student Aid Index (SAI), other federal awards the student has won, and living circumstances such as living on or off campus. Students must be attending a Nevada System of Higher Education community college or state college in order to be eligible.
Nevada Promise Scholarship (NPS):
The Nevada Promise Scholarship (NPS) is a program made to encourage Nevada residents to attend community college by providing financial assistance for up to three years of school. This program even takes into account things like cost of registration and other mandatory fees.
Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship:
The Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship is a merit based scholarship for high achieving Nevada scholars. Considerations that go into determining winners include:
- The courses taken throughout the students academic career
- The student’s GPA
- Test scores (ACT/SAT)
- Student is attending a state college or university
Nevada tuition reciprocity agreements
Nevada is a part of the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE). This exchange program gives students the opportunity to pay discounted tuition by attending participating institutions in partner states.
States in the WUE are listed below:
- Nevada
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Montana
- New Mexico
- North Dakota
- Oregon
- South Dakota
- Utah
- Washington
- Wyoming
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