Our Scholarships
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s scholarship programs are designed to encourage and support outstanding students who work hard and have financial need. Our scholarships provide financial assistance and academic support to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. In addition to the monetary award, students join a thriving network of more than 3,400 Cooke Scholars.
Our Cooke Community Commitment
Programs Data Dashboard
As part of the Foundation’s commitment to data transparency, we have launched an interactive dashboard presenting details about Cooke undergraduate Scholars, their academic experiences, and scholarship funds. This project is a work in progress. We invite you to explore the data dashboard.
Young Scholars Program
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program offers some of the most personalized, generous scholarship and educational support to exceptionally promising students from families across the nation who have financial need.
Cooke Young Scholars receive comprehensive educational advising and financial support from the 8th grade through high school to pursue their unique academic and talent goals.
College Scholarship Program
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship Program is an undergraduate scholarship program available to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend the nation’s best four-year colleges and universities.
Cooke College Scholars receive college planning support, ongoing advising, and the opportunity to network with the larger Cooke Scholar community in addition to scholarship funding. The award, which is last dollar funding after all institutional aid, can be as much as $55,000 a year.
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship is a highly-selective scholarship for the nation’s top community college students seeking to complete their bachelor’s degrees at selective four-year colleges or universities.
The highly competitive national scholarship aims for Scholars to complete their undergraduate educations with as little debt as possible. The award, which is last dollar funding after all institutional aid, can be as much as $55,000 a year for up to three years, making it one of the largest private scholarships for community college transfer students in the country.