Scholarships

North Carolina Scholarship for Children of Wartime Veterans

*Update as of June 3, 2025*

Thank you for your continued interest and patience regarding our delay in notification of awards for the North Carolina Scholarship for Children of Wartime Veterans.

The North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (NC DMVA) worked diligently alongside the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority to ensure the appropriate resources and ongoing support could be in place and sustainable for this important scholarship now and in the future.

After this meticulous review process, NC DMVA will not be awarding the competitive class of scholarships (Class II and Class III) for this coming semester. If available in future semesters, we encourage you and/or your student to reapply for consideration.

NC DMVA is working with our partners to address the Children of Wartime Veterans Scholarship, Class II & III categories, but is currently unable to support awards for 2025-2026 academic year. We will work within the bounds of statutory and regulatory guidelines to open a new application window if possible and will continue to update you on the process. We understand your concern and want to do what is possible to honor your family’s service and sacrifice.

Over 20,000 scholarships have been awarded to children of North Carolina veterans. North Carolina Scholarship Program was created to show its appreciation for the services and sacrifices of its war veterans. The scholarship program applies to North Carolina schools. The scholarship is for eight academic semesters, and the recipient has eight years to utilize the eight academic semesters. The Scholarship program has been established for a child, as that term is defined in 37 U.S.C. § 401 of certain class categories of deceased, disabled, combat, or POW/MIA veterans. Applicant must be under the age of 25 at the time of application. The veteran's qualifying criteria must have occurred during a period of war. At time of application, applicant must be domiciled and a resident of North Carolina. The deadline to apply is February 14 if the Veteran's disability is less than 100% service connected or served in a combat zone.  All paper applications are now obsolete and will be returned to sender. In addition:

1.  Veteran parent was a legal resident of North Carolina at time of said veteran’s entrance into that period of service in the Armed Forces during which eligibility is established, 

OR

2.  The Veterans child who was born in North Carolina and has been a resident of North Carolina continuously since birth.