Our Scholarships

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

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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$250 Million

Awarded in Scholarships

3,200 Cooke Scholars

Current Scholars and Alumni

$126 Million

Awarded in Grants

“I have a really central belief that potential is universal, but opportunity is not.”

William Tarpeh
Cooke Scholar

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Happy Women's History Month! To celebrate this year, we highlighted two amazing Cooke Scholars - Dr. Fasika and Dr. Tinsay Woreta of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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