Top Accounting Scholarships in 2021

Are you a student who loves numbers? Maybe math is your favorite class? If this sounds like you, then accounting may be a great option for a college major. Accounting is all about working with financial data and provides a wide range of career options. Accounting is also a lucrative career, with an average salary of over $70,000 per year. Students interested in accounting as a career should apply to accounting scholarships to help pay for their education.

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Keep on reading to learn all about the eligibility, deadlines, and amounts for the top accounting scholarships!

Top Accounting Scholarships in 2021

$1,000 Fund Your Future No Essay Scholarship

Eligibility: Open to graduate/masters students in accounting, STEM, nursing, and business
Amount: $1,000
Deadline: July 31, 2021

$10,000 Hustle Tech & Business News No-Essay Scholarship

Eligibility: Open to all undergraduate and graduate students who sign up for the Hustle free daily newsletter and share what they learned.
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

$1,000 WayUp Aspiring Accountant Scholarship

Eligibility: Open to both undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in accounting or a recent graduate who hopes to begin an accounting career.
Amount: $1,000
Deadline: June 1, 2021

$500 Taylor Price Financial Literacy for the Future Scholarship

Eligibility: Open to high school and college students who submit an essay. Applicants from minority groups underrepresented in the financial world and those with non-profit or volunteering experience will be preferred
Amount: $500
Deadline: April 14, 2021

AICPA Foundation Scholarship for Future CPAs

Eligibility: Open to undergraduate or graduate accounting students with a major GPA of 3.0. Students must also have completed 30 semester hours of school.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

AICPA Foundation Two-year Transfer Scholarship Award

Eligibility: Students who are studying at a two year or community college who intend to transfer to a four year college and major in accounting.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship Award

Eligibility: Open to liberal arts and non-business majors who are pursuing a graduate degree in accounting.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

AICPA/Robert Half Student Scholarship Award

Eligibility: Open to undergraduate or graduate accounting students with demonstrated financial need. Students must also have completed 30 semester hours of school.
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

AICPA Scholarship Award for Minority Accounting Students

Eligibility: Students who identify as Asian, Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander or another ethnic minority who are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in accounting.
Amount: $3,000 to $5,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

AWSCPA Scholarship Award

Eligibility: Open to female accounting students as undergraduates or graduates.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: March 1, 2021

CMA Scholarship Program

Eligibility: Students currently enrolled in an undergraduate program or individuals planning to attend a graduate degree program may apply for the scholarship.
Amount: $1,000-$5,000
Deadline: Rolling (year round)

Ted Rollins Eco Scholarship

Eligibility: Open to undergraduate students and high school seniors planning on earning a business or sustainability degree
Amount: $1,000
Deadline: June 1, 2021

Summary of Accounting Scholarships

Expired Scholarships

GreenPal Business Scholarship

Eligibility: High school seniors and college students majoring in business, economics, or finance
Amount: $2,000
Deadline: November 15, 2020

About Will Geiger

Will Geiger is the co-founder of Scholarships360 and has a decade of experience in college admissions and financial aid. He is a former Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at Kenyon College where he personally reviewed 10,000 admissions applications and essays. Will also managed the Kenyon College merit scholarship program and served on the financial aid appeals committee. He has also worked as an Associate Director of College Counseling at a high school in New Haven, Connecticut.

Will earned his master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate degree in history from Wake Forest University.