College of Agriculture & Natural ResourcesDepartment of Horticulture

Scholarship Archive

• Markham – Colegrave International Scholarship

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2018

  This scholarship works as an annual exchange programme between the UK and US/Canada.

• School to Work Career Placement Program

  Application Deadline: September 15, 2018

  For students who have been accepted and are enrolled at Michigan State University or an MSU Partnership Program for classes beginning fall of 2018.

• Troy Garden Club

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2018

  For students pursuing a horticultural education, Preference given to residents of Oakland and Macomb Counties and to college or university upperclassmen.

• Better Seed Better Life (Contest / Scholarship)

  Application Deadline: October 5, 2018

  Contest for undergraduate and graduate students

• GPN/Nexus Intern of the Year

  Application Deadline: October 15, 2018

  For students who have completed a greenhouse-related internship

• RNMF Scholarship

  Application Deadline: October 15, 2018

  The Responsible Nutrient Management Foundation is pleased to offer an annual scholarship, available to students attending an agricultural-related program at a post-secondary educational institution during the 2018-2019 school year.

• Friends of Richard F Stroud Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: October 20, 2018

  A $3,500 scholarship is offered to students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

• Davey Foundation Arbor Grant Program

  Application Deadline: October 26, 2018

  For students interested in arboriculture, horticulture, landscape, turf science, and forestry.

• Hydroponics Scholarship

  Application Deadline: November 1, 2018

  For students who are interested in hydroponics and aquaponics.

• MNLA Academic Scholarship

  Application Deadline: November 1, 2018

  Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association Scholarship

• National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) Foundation

  Application Deadline: November 2, 2018

  For students with a current NALP membership

• The Capital Area Landscape and Nurseryman's Association

  Application Deadline: November 15, 2018

  For students interested in pursuing a career in the green industry

• MSU College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Alumni Association

  Application Deadline: December 3, 2018

  For students who have: demonstrated leadership and community service; effective communication skills; and a commitment to their chosen field of study.

• The Garden Writers Association

  Application Deadline: December 5, 2018

  For students interested in garden communications, including garden photography.

• University Distinguished Fellowships

  Application Deadline: December 16, 2018

  For graduate students. Applicants do not directly apply for these fellowships; outstanding candidates are nominated by the departmental Admissions Committee

• Association of Grand Rapids Landscape Professionals Scholarship

  Application Deadline: December 17, 2018

  For students interested in the green industry (landscape, lawn maintenance, retail garden center, arboriculture, and grower) and intend to reside and work in Grand Rapids, MI upon graduation.

• MSU Dept of Horticulture Graduate Office Fellowship Funds

  Application Deadline: January 8, 2019

  For new and enrolled horticulture graduate students to obtain funding for equipment, supplies, or travel

• Michigan Potato Industry Commission Scholarship

  Application Deadline: January 11, 2019

  For students in agricultural majors with a minimum 3.0 GPA

• MSU Office for Education Abroad (Winter Application)

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  Scholarships to support student study abroad experiences

• Royal Horticultural Society

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  An exchange programme for British and American university graduates and horticultural students wanting experience abroad.

• STEM-FEE Scholars Program

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  Open to students who demonstrate financial need and are incoming freshmen, currently undecided or changing majors at MSU, or transferring to MSU from a community college or two-year institution.

• Winterthur Research Fellowship Program

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  For graduate students to support research in social and cultural history, design history, the decorative arts, landscape architecture and design, consumer culture, and conservation studies.

• Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  Open to rising college sophomores, juniors, seniors and Master’s degree candidates majoring in horticulture or related fields at institutions in IN, KY, MI, OH, PA or WV

• Professional Grounds Management Society

  Application Deadline: January 15, 2019

  Open to all undergraduate students in horticulture

• MSU Federal Credit Union Internship Opportunity Award

  Application Deadline: January 16, 2019

  For students accepted to or actively pursuing a high quality, unpaid, career-related internship focusing on the following areas: nonprofit organizations, government, media, the arts, public relations and advertising.

• The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship

  Application Deadline: January 31, 2019

  For graduate students interested in or studying public horticulture

• Garden Club of America’s Urban Forestry Fellowship

  Application Deadline: January 31, 2019

  Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying urban forestry, environmental studies, horticulture, forestry, or related courses of study with a special interest in urban forestry.

• National School Plant Management Association

  Application Deadline: February 1, 2019

  For undergraduates. Selection criteria is based on financial need, academic achievement, co-curricular participation, community service, and essay response.

• American Public Gardens Association Student Travel Award

  Application Deadline: February 1, 2019

  A travel scholarship for students to attend the annual APGA conference

• National Garden Clubs Inc.

  Application Deadline: February 1, 2019

  For students planning a career related to gardening, landscape design, environmental issues, floral design or horticulture.

• The Garden Club of America

  Application Deadline: February 1, 2019

  28 Merit-based scholarships in multiple categories

• Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: February 1, 2019

  Available to students in the horticulture field in two-year and four-year institutions of higher education for pursuit of degrees and practice in horticulture or closely related areas.

• American Society for Horticultural Science

  Application Deadline: February 4, 2019

  There is no application for this scholarship; the Horticulture Department nominates one student each year

• The John L. Arend Excellence in Graduate Student Research Scholarship

  Application Deadline: February 8, 2019

  For graduate students whose research is innovative, creative, and making timely progress.

• Dr. Ruth Allen Scholarship

  Application Deadline: February 8, 2019

  For graduate students to provide support while traveling abroad as part of their research program.

• Bruce Simpson Winemakers Scholarship

  Application Deadline: February 15, 2019

  For students pursuing a certificate or associate’s degree in viticulture and/or enology via the MSU Institute of Agricultural Technology or Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA).

• Dave Dowling Scholarship

  Application Deadline: February 15, 2019

  For students who have worked, are currently working, or plan to work after graduation in a commercial cut flower production operation.

• The Irrigation Foundation Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: February 15, 2019

  For students interested in a career in the irrigation field.

• Scholarship

  Application Deadline: February 22, 2019

  Intended for undergraduate students with a major in Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Botany (Horticulture Equivalent), Plant Pathology, Agricultural Education or Entomology.

• Horticulture Scholarship from Frances Sylvia Zverina

  Application Deadline: February 28, 2019

  Zverina Horticulture Scholarship

• National Association of Women in Construction

  Application Deadline: February 28, 2019

  For women in construction-related programs

• Western Reserve Herb Society

  Application Deadline: February 28, 2019

  For sophomore, juniors, and seniors with a GPA of 3.2 or above.

• GreenStone Farm Credit Services Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For incoming college freshman in agriculture

• Walker Hill International Award

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For PhD students to travel outside the U.S. for research purposes

• MSU Office for Education Abroad (Spring Application)

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  Scholarships to support student study abroad experiences

• MSU Department of Horticulture Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Spring)

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For PhD students to help complete their dissertation

• Vic & Margaret Ball Intern Scholarship Program (Spring Application)

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For students to train at a commercial production greenhouse or nursery.

• Mosmiller Intern Scholarship Program (Spring Application)

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  To support student internships in the ornamental industry

• Herb It Forward Scholarship

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For undergraduates with a passion for giving back to their communities.

• AmericanHort Scholars

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  A scholarship for students to attend the Cultivate conference

• West Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association

  Application Deadline: March 1, 2019

  For students whose home address is in Ottawa, Kent, Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Mason, or Allegan Counties

• Grand Traverse Area Spartans

  Application Deadline: March 2, 2019

  For incoming MSU students from Antrim, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties.

• MSU Student Affairs and Services

  Application Deadline: March 3, 2019

  The Office of Student Affairs and Services (SAS) oversees more than 20 scholarships available for undergraduate and graduate students.

• Bartlett Tree Foundation Scholarship Fund (Spring Application)

  Application Deadline: March 10, 2019

  For students pursuing degrees in arboriculture, forestry, urban forestry, horticulture, plant pathology, botany, or other closely related discipline.

• The TREE Fund

  Application Deadline: March 15, 2019

  Multiple scholarships for undergraduate students who aspire to careers in arboriculture, urban forestry and related fields.

• Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association Scholarship

  Application Deadline: March 15, 2019

  For students interested in using their horticultural degree in the field of communications.

• Annie's Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: March 15, 2019

  For students pursuing studies in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture

• ILCA Scholarship - Illinois residents

  Application Deadline: March 18, 2019

  For students whose home address is in Illinois pursuing a degree in Horticulture at MSU

• MSUFCU Internship Award

  Application Deadline: March 20, 2019

  To support MSU students while pursuing a high quality, unpaid, career-related internship focusing on the following areas: non-profit organizations, government, media, the arts, public relations and advertising.

• Joseph Shinoda Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc.

  Application Deadline: March 30, 2019

  For students interested in Floriculture

• Student Horticulture Association Scholarship

  Application Deadline: April 7, 2019

  For currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students who are active in the Student Horticulture Association

• Horticulture Plant Science Excellence Graduate Fellowship

  Application Deadline: April 15, 2019

  A 1-year assistantship available to outstanding incoming masters or doctoral students in the Department of Horticulture at MSU

• Proven Winners Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: April 15, 2019

  For students with a sophomore status or above and have at least one year of school left before graduation.

• GIE Media's Horticultural Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: April 16, 2019

  For students working towards a degree in horticulture

• John A. Muter Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: April 30, 2019

  For college sophomore and juniors who have demonstrated a commitment to engaging new audiences and/or new generations with Michigan’s natural resources and rich outdoor heritage.

• The Clifford Humphrys Fellowship for Preservation of Water Quality in The Great Lakes

  Application Deadline: April 30, 2019

  For graduate students doing research on water quality

• NC Strawberry Association Scholarship

  Application Deadline: May 1, 2019

  For students interested in a program of study directly related to the strawberry industry (for example, small fruit production, marketing, food science, nutrition, entomology, agronomy, etc.).

• National Association of Plant Breeders Diversity Travel Award

  Application Deadline: May 1, 2019

  This program provides support to undergraduate and graduate students from under-represented groups to learn about plant breeding at the National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) annual meeting.

• Multiple Scholarships

  Application Deadline: May 1, 2019

  Multiple Scholarships available from the American Floral Endowment

• Orchid Care Scholarship

  Application Deadline: May 1, 2019

  For students interested in pursuing a career working with orchids

• Taylor Garden Club - Jeanne Eckert Scholarship

  Application Deadline: May 3, 2019

  Open to students following a career path in agriculture, horticulture, organic gardening, botany, environmental studies, landscape design, or conservation.

• California Certified Organic Farmers

  Application Deadline: May 6, 2019

  For students interested in organic farming.

• Kenneth Kingsley Smith Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: May 9, 2019

  For students in the Agricultural Technology program or CANR Major from Lenawee, Oakland, Washtenaw, Monroe, or Jackson counties.

• 2019 Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: May 27, 2019

  We invite eligible university students pursuing bachelor’s or master’s degrees in crop-related disciplines to compete for $20,000 in scholarship awards.

• MSU Office for Education Abroad (Summer Application)

  Application Deadline: June 8, 2019

  Scholarships to support student study abroad experiences

• Arborjet Taking Root Scholarship

  Application Deadline: June 14, 2019

  For graduating high school seniors who are enrolled at a 2 or 4-year accredited college or university.

• Dummen Orange Scholarship

  Application Deadline: June 15, 2019

  For students entering their sophomore through senior year in the upcoming fall semester and pursuing a degree in the floriculture/horticulture field with a minimum 3.0 GPA.

• Student Scholarship Program

  Application Deadline: June 15, 2019

  1 Scholarship for $3,000 will be awarded twice a year to students who are pursuing a Biology or related degree in Environmental Studies.

• Ohio Chapter International Society of Arboriculture

  Application Deadline: July 1, 2019

  For students interested in Arboriculture

• Daniel Joseph "DJ" Kurkowski Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: July 15, 2019

  For students enrolled in an arboriculture related educational program or employed in an arboricultural or related field.

• MSU Department of Horticulture Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Summer)

  Application Deadline: August 1, 2019

  For PhD students to help complete their dissertation

• Perfect Plants Scholarship

  Application Deadline: August 20, 2019

  For incoming freshman, sophomore, junior or senior enrolled full or part time leading to a career in the horticultural industry.