Top Hispanic Scholarships

The John & Francesca Vera Community Leadership Scholarship was established by John and Francesca Vera to support students of Hispanic/Latino descent from Franklin High School who have an interest in community leadership. For the 2026 scholarship cycle, one Hispanic or Latino male student and one Hispanic or Latina female student will be selected to receive a scholarship. Applicants must be a Hispanic or Latino high school senior at Franklin High School in Stockton, California. They must pursue an undergraduate degree in any major at an accredited college. Applicants must also demonstrate community leadership and participation in extracurricular activities. Applicants must submit a letter of recommendation from a teacher, faculty member, or school counselor. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the San Joaquin Community Foundation for more information.

The Azteca Scholarship is not awarded based solely on academic achievement or need but on motivation and involvement in your community. Applicants must be of Chicano, Mexicano, Raza, or Latinx descent. Undocumented students are encouraged to apply. Applicants must also be a resident of the Houston Metropolitan Area. They must be high school seniors accepted into a four year college or university as a first-year full-time student. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

PlaceWorks has established a scholarship program to assist current undergraduate and graduate students in California who are pursuing a degree in Planning, Urban Design and/or Architecture, Environmental Planning, or Landscape Architecture. Applicants must be a member of one or more historically underrepresented groups, including but not limited to, American Indian or Alaska Native, Arab or Middle Eastern, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, veterans, disabled individuals, or first-generation college students. PlaceWorks employees and their children are not eligible. Awards are not renewable, but students may reapply to the program each year they meet eligibility requirements. One online recommendation form must be submitted on the student's behalf no later than May 1, 2025. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

Established charitable fund at the Triangle Community Foundation to benefit Hispanic students in North Carolina. The high cost of college tuition is often a major challenge for students when considering a college education. The NCHCF awards annual scholarships to help students pay for their college education. Scholarship recipients must be of Hispanic/Latino descent and graduates of a North Carolina high school. Eligible students include those graduating this year and those that graduated within the last two years. Recipients of the NCHCF scholarship must be committed to public service and community development. Preference will be given to foreign-born applicants or the native-born children of foreign-born parents. Recipients will be chosen based on family economic need, community involvement, academic achievement, volunteerism, and leadership. Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation from a high school teacher, principal, pastor, employer, or other community leaders. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

The Ken Inouye Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a college journalist of color and is aimed at increasing ethnic diversity in newsrooms. Ken Inouye was a 22-year-old cameraman for the International News Service, covering the Korean War, when he was killed aboard an Army aircraft. Students from Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties who have completed at least their freshman year of college, as well as graduate students from those same counties, are eligible to apply for all scholarships. Students enrolled in college in another state who have graduated high school in Los Angeles, Orange or Ventura counties may also apply. Applicants must submit proof of enrollment or acceptance in a journalism program at a two-year or four-year college or university. Students completing pre-journalism programs must provide proof they have been admitted to a journalism program. Students must have completed at least their freshman year in college and have at least one semester to complete in a journalism program after the award of the scholarship. Graduate students in journalism programs are eligible. Applicants must submit a resume that should contain a record of their school and/or professional journalism experience. This should also include journalism honors and awards, and scholarships or achievements in any field. Applicants must also submit their work samples with their application online via email, scanning, attaching and/or providing links to their work samples in acceptable formats. For Text submissions, at least three samples of the applicant's best published work must be provided. For broadcast, multimedia and photo submissions, five samples of published work are required. Applicants are also required to provide a letter of recommendation from one of their journalism professors or instructors. The instructor can email a letter directly to SPJLA. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

LPA, Inc. has established the LPA Diversity in Design Scholarship to champion the design professions among students from underrepresented demographics. We believe diversity and inclusion are essential to innovation, belonging, and representation. To that end, we aim to foster a culture where students feel that anything is possible regardless of their starting point. Applicants must be high school seniors in states California and Texas. They must have been accepted in an undergraduate study at an accredited NAAB, LAAB, ABET, CIDA, NASAD, four or five-year college or university for the entire upcoming academic year. Applicants must be pursuing a degree in one of the following majors associated with the building and design industry: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Architecture/Design, Architectural Engineering, Structural Engineering, Building Science, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related degree. They must also be a student who has overcome significant challenges in their academic pursuit and/or belong to a group historically underrecognized or marginalized within the building and design industry. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Awards are renewable for up to three years or until a bachelor's degree or for four years or until a Bachelor of Architecture (BARCH) degree is earned, whichever occurs first. Awards may be renewed for the fourth year for a bona fide five-year undergraduate program upon sponsor review. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.

The Laura Greenstone Memorial Scholarship honors the memory of art therapist Laura Greenstone in her request for the establishment of a scholarship to support masters-level African-American and Afro-Caribbean art therapy students. Through the establishment of this scholarship, Laura hoped to address the legacy of racial violence in the United States by furthering a diversified art therapy profession and serving very diverse communities in inclusive ways. This scholarship is available to an AA...

Rizing Tide will annually award the Crest scholarship to students who are pursuing a physical therapy degree and who come from an underrepresented racial and/or ethnic background (self-identifying as BIPOC). Applicants must be a student entering their first or second year of a DPT program (with their second year beginning no sooner than June 1, 2023); or be an active first-year student; or be a student entering a PTA-to-DPT bridge program. They must have been accepted into a CAPTE-accredited ...

The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) in partnership with Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies invites paper submissions for the 2025 NWSA Women of Color Caucus Frontiers Student Essay Award. The purpose of this award is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and girls of color in the United States and diasporas. An annual award is available for a woman of color who is a current graduate student and member of NWSA. The Editorial Collective envisions this award as initiating a relationship between the author and the journal, and thus we expect the prize-winning essay to be formally submitted to Frontiers (pending any initial revisions requested by the co-editors). We are willing to work with authors on timeline/schedule, but we kindly ask that you do not apply for the award if you are not willing to pursue the submission, review, and publication process with the journal. Submissions must be from Women or Non-Binary People of Color who are current individual NWSA members and currently enrolled in a graduate or professional program. Recent recipients of a terminal degree (no later than May 2025) are also eligible to apply. Submissions must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a mentoring professor. The letter of recommendation should speak to the importance and innovation of the applicant's particular research interventions, and should also address the applicant's skills, accomplishments, and other qualities that make them well suited as a leader in research on women of color. Additionally, the letter of recommendation must address the suitability of the paper for publication in Frontiers. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.