2025 Michigan Retailers Association Scholarship

Award details:

• Fourteen $3,500 scholarships are expected to be awarded annually and are not renewable.

• Students may reapply each year as long as they continue to meet the eligibility criteria.

• The scholarships will be applied to tuition, fees, books, supplies and equipment required for course load.

• Institutions must be accredited, nonprofit two-year or four-year colleges/universities in the United States or approved educational and professional training institutes.

• A student may transfer from one institution to another and retain the award.

Those eligible to apply are high school seniors and college freshmen, sophomores and juniors who are:

• Dependent sons and daughters of owners or full-time employees who have been employed at a member business as of Jan. 1, 2024); OR

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• Part-time employees, who are also full-time students, who have been employed at a member business as of July 1, 2024).

An independent selection committee will evaluate the applications and select the winners. The committee will consider: academic achievements and records, community involvement and extra-curricular activities, including, but not limited to, retail employment.