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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Better Seed Better Life (Contest / Scholarship)

  Application Deadline: August 31, 2019

  Contest for undergraduate and graduate students

• The Horticulture Research Institute Scholarships

  Application Deadline: September 13, 2019

  Multiple scholarships for horticulture students

• Student Conference Scholarships & Free Membership

  Application Deadline: September 13, 2019

  A scholarship to cover registration costs for the 2018 IPPS Annual Conference

• Irrigation Foundation

  Application Deadline: September 20, 2019

  For students interested in a career in the irrigation field

• Merrill S. Fuller Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled or incoming freshmen MSU Horticulture students.

• Leon R. Christensen Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students with a minimum 3.0 GPA and junior, senior, or graduate student status.

• Carl J. Sellner Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students with interests in fruit production and management.

• Walter and Janice O'Dell Endowed Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students with a minimum 3.0 GPA and show financial need

• Harry A. Foster Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students.

• Franklin Garden Club Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students.

• Harry Eustace Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students

• Metro Detroit Flower Growers Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students interested in floriculture and who reside in east Michigan

• Lynn and Stella Bowers Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students, with a preference for those pursuing a career in the fruit industry

• June Alexander Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students with a GPA of 2.5 or higher who reside in MI, VA, IN, IL, WI, WV, PA, or NY

• Michigan Garden Clubs Thelma Burleigh Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students

• Victor Ray Gardner Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students

• David and Marion Dilley Endowed Scholarship and Research Fund

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students

• Michigan Garden Clubs Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students

• Estate of Henry T. Ritter Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students interested in potted plant production

• Darla Paselk Memorial Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students who intend to work in the Floriculture industry upon graduation.

• Eleanor and Wilhelm Beckert Forestry and Horticulture Endowed Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students who have participated in a study abroad program

• John H. Clupper Memorial Scholarship Fund

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture students with a minimum 3.0 GPA and Junior status or above

• Robert Herner Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  There is no application for this scholarship; the Horticulture Department chooses one of the top graduating seniors

• Rose M. Carlson Internship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  Common application scholarship for the student to have a paid internship experience in the MSU Horticulture Demonstration Gardens

• Frank Dennis Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 27, 2019

  There is no application for this scholarship; the donor chooses one of the top graduating seniors to receive it

• MSHS Cherry Scholarship

  Application Deadline: September 30, 2019

  $1500 scholarship give to a student who has worked with cherries.

• Jordan Tatter Scholarship (Graduate)

  Application Deadline: September 30, 2019

  For graduate students interested in pursuing a career in or working with the fruit and vegetable industries.

• Jordan B. Tatter Scholarship (Undergraduate)

  Application Deadline: September 30, 2019

  Scholarship for currently enrolled MSU Horticulture undergraduate students pursuing a career in the fruit or vegetable industries.

• Scholarships

  Application Deadline: September 30, 2019

  For students interested in careers in the vegetable or fruit industries

• Troy Garden Club

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2019

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

• MSU Office for Education Abroad (Fall Application)

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2019

  Scholarships to support student study abroad experiences

• MSU Department of Horticulture Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Fall)

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2019

  For PhD students to help complete their dissertation

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

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2019

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

• Mosmiller Intern Scholarship Program (Fall Application)

  Application Deadline: October 1, 2019

  To support student internships in the ornamental industry

• Bartlett Tree Foundation Scholarship Fund (Fall Application)

  Application Deadline: October 10, 2019

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