Scholarship Opportunities
F&M students are collaborative, intellectually curious, creative and entrepreneurial. Diplomats go on to become global citizens who lead impactful lives. F&M is dedicated to recruiting talented students from all backgrounds. To build a community of students who have track records of accomplishment and the potential to make significant contributions, we offer both merit scholarships and need-based aid.
Global water and food security begin and end with human connections to local waterways
and landscapes. The Chesapeake Watershed Leadership Fellows program is designed for students with
an interest in Earth and Environmental Sciences and allied social science disciplines, including Economics, Business, and Public Policy, to engage in field and laboratory research within the local Conestoga River watershed,
a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Faculty Mentors: Dorothy Merritts, Bob Walter, Patrick Fleming, and Chris WilliamsScholarship Opportunities
F&M Merit Scholarship
For applicants entering in the fall of 2025, merit scholarships will be offered up
to $35,000 per year. Merit scholarship recipients are selected based on a holistic
review of applications.
Chesapeake Watershed Leadership Fellows
Preserving the Chesapeake Bay begins here.
New ways to restore streams, wetlands, and floodplains have been pioneered within
this watershed by F&M faculty, with numerous innovative restoration sites adjacent
to the F&M College campus providing you and your fellows with direct access to a wide
range of learning opportunities. The Chesapeake Bay is the third-largest estuary in
the world, and the largest in the United States, but local watersheds like the Conestoga
play a major role in the health and well-being of the Bay itself.
As a Fellow, you will gain fundamental knowledge about critical water and landscape
systems, and partner with local to federal organizations and environmental engineering
firms to improve the health and security of these waterways by:
Creative Writing & Cultural Leadership Fellows
Grow as writers — and affect cultural change.
Franklin & Marshall College has always been known for the excellence of our writing
education. For us, the act of writing is inseparable from critical thinking, creative
invention, and leadership. Students who come to F&M, regardless of their ultimate
major, learn how to write so that they can have social and cultural impact. Writing
is a gateway for finding and expanding audiences for their ideas and research, moving
people with their words, and leading meaningful change.
Students who share a passion for writing, reading, literary activism, and creative
expression have the unique opportunity to participate in a vital writing community
during their college years at the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House. This program space and community hub is an actual house that serves as an incubator
for students in all academic disciplines to develop their writing and related creative
projects. In just the past few years, students at Writers House have published their
own work in journals, founded new writing groups and literary journals, brought well-known
authors to campus for readings and workshops, taught creative writing in local public
schools and community centers, hosted a campus-wide Banned Books Fair, and met with
alumni in writing-related fields, among many other projects. Students here find their
voices figuratively and literally while connecting with both faculty writers from
across the College and a deep pool of successful alumni in writing and creative fields.
Our Creative Writing & Cultural Leadership Fellows program is designed for prospective
students with a keen interest in creative writing of all kinds and/or related creative
fields including publishing, journalism, storytelling, cultural criticism, arts and
museum administration, design thinking, and performance. Students who are selected
as Creative Writing & Cultural Leadership Fellows will:
Throughout the program, Fellows will receive individual faculty mentorship and programmatic
support.
Faculty Mentor: Kerry Sherin Wright
Future Founders Leadership Fellows
A blueprint for tomorrow’s innovators.
This program is crafted to immerse you in the core values of entrepreneurship and
innovation, drawing inspiration from the dynamic world of startup culture. Through
this experience, you will develop a "builder's mindset" — learning to identify problems,
create solutions, and lead with resilience. The program is deeply connected to the
vibrant Lancaster community, providing hands-on projects and mentorship with local
leaders, ensuring you gain valuable, real-world experience from day one. It's a chance
for you to not just learn about leadership, but to actively practice it and make a
tangible impact.
When you become a Future Founders Fellow, you gain access to a suite of programmatic
characteristics designed to set you up for success from the beginning, including:
Beyond these tangible benefits, the program is intentionally structured to foster
a supportive and social community among you and your fellows. Through these and other
dedicated activities and shared experiences, you will build a tight-knit support network,
mirroring the bonds often found among athletic teams or members of Greek organizations.
These connections will not only enrich your time at F&M, but will also provide you
with a lasting network of peers who can support your journey long after graduation.
These tools and connections are provided early on to help you thrive both at F&M and
in your future endeavors.
Faculty Mentor: Joaquin Villarreal
Public Service Leadership Fellows
Leadership through service to others.
Public service, at its core, is the pursuit of the common good. Those dedicated to
public service aim to strengthen communities through democratic engagement and collaboration
with community members. The Public Service Leadership Fellows program is designed
to help students like you develop the skills you need to innovate in the public sphere
and affect positive change as future leaders.
As a Public Service Leadership Fellow, you will:
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Medvic
Athletic Scholarships - Wrestling
Posse Scholarship
Tuition Exchange Scholarships
The Paul and Rose Wiener Scholarship
To be considered for a Paul and Rose Wiener Scholarship, prospective students must
submit an application for general admission and a Paul and Rose Wiener Scholarship Application by January 6.
Please download and mail in the following application to be considered. Mail in instructions are
within the application.
Apply now
The Arthur F. and Selma C. Walters Scholarship
Arthur F. “Art” Walters is known locally as the founder of the Manheim Auto Auction,
located approximately 7 miles from F&M's campus. This business grew into the world's
largest wholesale auto auction, selling millions of vehicles each year. Art was a
natural entrepreneur with numerous other business ventures in the Lancaster area.
Art was also known for his love of learning and debate, as well as his acceptance
of diverse opinions and beliefs. Art believed that all people were equal, regardless
of age, gender, race, identity or beliefs. His humanistic convictions were expressed
in his business practices and friendships.
The Adams & Gustafson Music Achievement Award
Financial Aid at F&M
We’re dedicated to making an F&M education affordable for all. By offering need-based and merit-based financial aid, we’re able to welcome talented students from all backgrounds.
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