Scholarships

Merit Scholarships

Students may only receive one scholarship listed in this section. For all scholarships, students must remain continuously enrolled in fall and spring semesters and maintain satisfactory academic progress toward a degree to continue to receive the award. All scholarship awards are for tuition only at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.

The Sumners Scholarship

Thanks to the generosity of the Sumners Foundation, rising juniors (students who have completed ~60 semester hours at the end of the spring semester) at HPU interested and invested in civic engagement and leadership may apply for admission into a highly competitive and richly rewarding scholarship program (Source). Click here or below to learn more. 

Heart of Texas Scholarship

HPU offers the Heart of Texas Scholarship to graduates from area high schools and home schools. This scholarship is for tuition only at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. Use the link below to learn more. 

Central Texas Scholarship* – $500**

This scholarship is awarded to first-year and transfer students who are unconditionally admitted to HPU and graduated from a high school in one of the following counties: Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Coke, Concho, Coryell, Erath, Fisher, Gillespie, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, McLennan, Menard, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Runnels, Schleicher, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Sutton, Taylor, Tom Green and Williamson counties. This scholarship is for tuition only at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.

*Students may only receive either the Central Texas Scholarship or the Legacy Scholarship

**Semester Award

Legacy Scholarship* – $500**

This scholarship is awarded to students who are unconditionally admitted and whose parent or grandparent graduated from Howard Payne University. This scholarship is for tuition only at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.

*Students may only receive either the Central Texas Scholarship or the Legacy Scholarship

**Semester Award

HPU Head Start Scholarship

This HPU Head Start Scholarship Program is available to all students who enroll in dual credit or dual enrollment courses at Howard Payne, who receive a grade of B or above in those courses, and who enroll in HPU as a full-time first-year or transfer student following the students’ high school graduation.

Church Matching Scholarship Program

This scholarship program applies to full and part-time graduate and undergraduate students enrolled at Howard Payne. HPU will match any gift from student’s church up to $3,500 per academic year.

Baptist Ministerial
Dependent Scholarship – $750*

An application must be obtained from and approved by the dean of the School of Christian Studies (325-649-8403) prior to the first semester’s registration period. Renewal review occurs annually. 

*Semester Award

Baptist Ministerial Scholarship – $750*

An application must be obtained from and approved by the dean of the School of Christian Studies (325-649-8403) prior to the first semester’s registration period. Renewal review occurs annually.

*Semester Award

HPU Sibling Scholarship – $500*

Full-time students at HPU who have one or more siblings also enrolled at HPU full-time will qualify. Siblings must be from the same household. Awards are considered on a semester-by-semester basis. This scholarship is for tuition only at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.

*Semester Award