Undergraduate Programs

Name of Scholarship

Total # Awards

Scholarship Criteria

Allstate Scholarship

Two (2) Award $2,500

• Full time student
• Accounting majors
• 3.15 GPA

Michael N. Bitsas Memorial Scholarship Award

One (1) Award $700

• Full time student
• Marketing or Management majors
• Preference for concentrations in international business
• 2.5 GPA

Distinguished Alumni Scholarship

One (1) Award $500

• Full time student
• Active participant in CBA student organizations
• Senior standing
• 3.0 GPA

Eric Werner Fors Scholarship

One (1) Award $550

• Full time student
• US citizen, IL resident
• Juniors and seniors
• All majors except Accounting
• Preference for underrepresented ethnic groups
• 2.75 GPA

Marilyn Fors Scholarship

One (1) Award $600

• Full time student
• US citizen, IL resident
• Juniors and seniors eligible
• All majors except Accounting
• Preference for underrepresented ethnic groups
• 2.75 GPA

Gerald Lance Scholarship

One (1) Award $1,200

• Full time student
• US citizen, IL resident
• Juniors or seniors
• All majors except Accounting
• Preference for underrepresented ethnic groups
• 2.75 GPA

Viola Lance Scholarship

One (1) Award $1,200

• Full time student
• US citizen, IL resident
• Juniors or seniors
• All majors except Accounting
• Preference for underrepresented ethnic groups
• 2.75 GPA

Polk Brothers Scholarship

Nine (9) Awards $1,000 each

• Full time student
• All majors
• Preference for economically disadvantaged
• 3.0 GPA

Dorothy L. Huck Memorial Scholarship

One (1) Award for Incoming Freshman $3,500

* Up to four students (three [3] renewing ideally) are eligible to receive these awards at $3,500 each in an academic year

• One incoming freshman
• Must matriculate from Sullivan High School

BAC Scholarship

Four (4) students $2,500 each

* Only four (4) students at a time may receive this award.  They can be renewing recipients providing they meet the criteria

• 2.75 GPA
• ACT composite score of 25 (if incoming freshman)

Caterpillar “Homeland Security” Scholarship for IDS

One (1) $2,000 award for a student in Information and Decision Sciences interested in and involved with academic studies relative to the security industry and homeland security.

• IDS Major (Graduate or Undergraduate)
• Yearly forms (provided by Central Development) to be completed by each student and submitted every Fall to Caterpillar – meeting coordinated by CFR
• 2.8 GPA

CNA Scholarship

Two (2) $5,000 awards for continuing students who will be seniors during the 2008-2009 academic year, providing they continue to meet all criteria.

Two (2) $5,000 awards for two new juniors ---- another $5,000 each is available for their senior years

• US citizen, IL resident
• 3.0 GPA
• Must be Information and Decision Sciences Majors

Caterpillar Scholarship

Seven (7) students $2,500 each

• At least three (3) minority/women
• Yearly forms (provided by Central Development) to be completed by each student and submitted every Fall – meeting coordinated by CFR
• Sophomores, juniors and seniors
• 2.8 GPA

Security Traders Association of Chicago (STAC) Award

Three (3) students $4,500

* Past recipients may re-apply providing that all criteria is met.

• Finance majors
• Second semester Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors
• 2.5 GPA

James L. Doti Award for Excellence

One (1) student $950

• Must be CBA Economics major
• 3.5 GPA or higher
• Sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students

David and Karen Zucker Scholarship

One (1) student $500

• Must be a CBA Major interested in media, entertainment, publishing, software or information industries
• Sophomores and Juniors
• 3.0 GPA

John and Pamela Diamantis

One (1) student $8,500

• ACT composite score of 23 or higher
• African American male
• Demonstrated financial need
• Renewable when recipient remains in good academic standing

ComEd Scholarship

Two (2) students $3750 each

• Preference to Latino/a students
• All CBA majors eligible
• Renewable
• Good academic standing

Kuczmarski Innovation Scholarship

One (1) student $5000

• Entrepreneurial Studies Major
• Good academic standing

J. Fred McLimore Memorial Scholarship

One (1) student $1,100

• Two letters of recommendation
• All CBA majors eligible
• Not renewable
• Good academic standing

Accounting Fund Scholarship

Nine (9) Awards $1,000 each

• Hill, Taylor & Co
• Virchow, Krause & Co
• Allstate
• IIA
• McGladrey&Pullen
• Plante&Moran
• Ernst&Young
• Deloitte

• Full time student
• Accounting Majors
• Minimum 3.0 GPA
• Must have completed Acctg. 110 & 111

Jerry Weiss Memorial Scholarship

Four (4) Awards $4,500

• Undergraduate, full time Accounting major
• Minimum 3.00 GPA

Craig and Carol Levin Accounting Scholarship

Two (2) Awards $2,500

• Accounting Major

Wal-Mart Emerging Scholars

Twenty (20) students $4,000 per year

   For students starting their fourth year of the Emerging Scholar’s program

Jose L. Santillan CFA Endowed Scholarship

One (1) Award $1,500.00

• Dep’t of Finance
• Full time student, 2.75 GPA
• Preference to financial need/ Latino/Latina students
• Sophomore

Motorola Innovation Generation

Five (5) $4,000 Awards

Dr. Peter Chalos Accounting Scholarship

One (1) $3,000.00 Award

• Accounting Major

Marie Nesbitt Promise Prize

One (1) $5,000.00 Award

• Full time, CBA student
• Junior
• African American with highest GPA in the fall semester prior to their senior year
• Present prize at scholarship dinner

UIC Business Administration Scholarship

One (1) $2,000.00 Award

• Recipient picked at the discretion of the scholarship selection committee

USG

One (1) $1,500

• The money will provide $1,500.00 for one College of Business Administration student annually
• Scholarship applicants must be involved in the UIC chapter of the Latino Association for Business Students to be eligible for the scholarship
• Preference will be given to students with sophomore, junior or senior standing in the Fall semester of the year in which the scholarship will be distributed