Scholarships

First-year professional students are eligible for competitive scholarships, when available, awarded by the school’s Scholarship Committee and determined primarily by information supplied by students in their admissions application. No additional application is required.

Scholarship decisions are made and conveyed during the admissions process. Those selected must respond by the deadline noted in the offer letter or the scholarship will be forfeited. Additional scholarship details will be included in the offer letter and must be read and adhered to in order to maintain scholarship funding.

The Scholarship Committee takes many factors into account when reviewing criteria of potential scholarship recipients such as academic achievement, initiative and degree of effort given to self-support of the student's educational expenses, residency, unmet financial need, career aspirations, the quality of the admissions application essay, combinations of these factors, and/or other criteria.

All first-year undergraduates admitted directly into the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree program through our Early Assurance Program 2+4=6 option will earn a Dean’s Leadership Scholarship upon successful transition to the professional (3rd) year of study. No additional application is needed.

Need-based scholarships are provided for students who demonstrate legitimate financial need to support their PharmD studies. Students must also be in good academic standing and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in core courses only.

All scholarships opportunities are available for application through the UB Scholarship Portal. By completing the initial general form, student applicants will be automatically notified of SPPS need-based scholarships and other university scholarships for which they are eligible. Scholarships which are specific to SPPS may request additional application materials, and students must submit all required information by the application deadline of September 30. 

The Graduate School Fellowship helps fund outstanding graduate students at UB. A minimum of twenty students will be selected per year. Each student will receive a $10,000 top-off per year, renewable for five years, for a total value of $50,000.

To be eligible, a nominee must be a new applicant to a PhD program and must be appointed as a full teaching, graduate or research assistant.

Below is a list of relevant scholarship opportunities offered outside of the school. Please review the application instructions and verify the deadlines on the scholarship provider's website.