Our Scholarships

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.

The Cooke Foundation stands with our Black Scholars, Alumni, Families, Staff, and entire diverse community to condemn systemic racism. Black Lives Matter. We are committed to fighting educational and economic inequalities.

Young Scholars Program

Offers the most personalized, generous scholarship and educational support to exceptionally promising students from families across the nation who have financial need.

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College Scholarship Program

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.

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Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship

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.

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$222 Million

Awarded in Scholarships

2,800 Cooke Scholars

Current Scholars and Alumni

$115 Million

Awarded in Grants

"I was originally born in Mexico and I came to the US when I was three years old," Stephani said. "I always kind of had that appeal for learning about different cultures."

Stephani Calderon
Cooke Scholar

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