Student Scholarships

Student Scholarships

Financial support empowers students to experience college life more freely.  

The College of Science and Engineering is a great place to begin exploring how you can make academics more affordable. We offer financial aid and work study opportunities, as well as several scholarships available for both incoming and current students. You can learn more about those awards here.

Additionally, external organizations and foundations provide funding for electrical and computer engineering students. To assist in your scholarship search, we’ve compiled a list of links offering more details about various financial awards for which you might qualify.  

Bannan Scholarship

($6,000 Junior and Senior Merit Award)

The Thomas J. Bannan Scholarship program for the Seattle University College of Science and Engineering students awards scholarships to both current students and new transfer students who have junior or senior standing in the fall of the award year. A Bannan scholarship is a merit award of $6000 per year.  

For juniors, this two-year award is subject to academic performance demonstrated by maintaining a GPA of 3.0 and active participation in the Bannan Scholar Enrichment Program. This program includes service, scholarly and social activities, as well as opportunities to compete for one of several Bannan Scholar summer research stipends.

Initial award criteria for the scholarship includes having a junior or senior standing by fall 2024 as a continuing student or new transfer student, as well as a GPA of 3.5 or higher for previous college-level work. 

Sperry Goodman Scholarship

($5,000 Incoming Freshman Award) 

This $5,000-per-year scholarship is for incoming freshmen majoring in environmental science, mathematics, physics or an engineering discipline. Preference is given to students with financial need. This scholarship is renewable for a second year provided recipients maintain a cumulative 3.0 GPA in one of the above majors.

The Sperry Goodman Endowed Scholarship was established with a $1,000,000 gift from the estate of Sperry Goodman in 1999. Sperry Goodman earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from Seattle University in 1969. Following graduation, Goodman worked for the Boeing Company, where he made significant and groundbreaking contributions in electrical engineering. 

SUMSS Scholarship

(Up to $10,000 renewable award for high-achieving students with financial need)

A scholarship built to help high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need pursue career opportunities in biology, chemistry and mathematics. The SUMSS Scholarship is designed to help low-income students support study in the sciences. This scholarship is renewable for up to four years of undergraduate study. 

The Boeing Company Corporate Scholarship

The Boeing Company Corporate Scholarship is a renewable scholarship for continuing SU students.  To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must be enrolled in an undergraduate engineering major at Seattle University (with priority consideration for underrepresented student populations, especially students of color), demonstrate academic excellence, possess strong written and oral communication skills, and be an American citizen. Consideration is given to transfer students from a community college. This scholarship is renewable for the duration of the recipient’s undergraduate program (total of 4 years) by maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in one of the required majors. 

Coughlin Porter Lundeen Scholarship

The Coughlin Porter Lundeen Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering is for continuing SU students or incoming transfer students and opens on May 1. To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must demonstrate financial need, be an American citizen and be enrolled in engineering courses (civil or environmental). Consideration is given to transfer students from a community college, as well as to groups historically underrepresented in civil and environmental engineering. 

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board Impact Scholarship

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice. We pledge solidarity with communities of color and other marginalized groups who have experienced discrimination. We foster a welcoming environment that encourages the participation and pathways to ECE profession for those from groups that were traditionally marginalized.

The ECE Advisory Board Impact Scholarship aims to support an undergraduate student in their pursuit of an electrical or computer engineering degree. All eligible students are invited to apply for this scholarship. We extend a special invitation to those with non-privileged identities based on but not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, country of origin, sexual orientation, ability, religion, age, family status, veteran status, economic status and political views.

To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must be a sophomore, junior or senior enrolled full time as an electrical engineering or computer engineering major at Seattle University. Additionally, they must demonstrate strong academic potential with a GPA of 2.7 or above.

Scholarship recipients are expected to meet with the members of the ECE Advisory Board once a quarter. 

Transfer and international students are welcome to apply. 

The Edwin W. Brotherton Scholarship in Computer Science

The Edwin W. Brotherton Scholarship in Computer Science is for continuing SU students. To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must demonstrate financial need and be enrolled as a computer science major.  

The George R. Murphy Engineering Scholarship

The George R. Murphy Engineering Scholarship is for continuing SU students.  To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must demonstrate financial need and be enrolled as an undergraduate engineering major at Seattle University.

The James and Donna Knight Endowed Scholarship 

The James and Donna Knight Endowed Scholarship is for continuing SU students. To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must be enrolled in an undergraduate major in the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University, maintain a 3.5 GPA or higher and demonstrate financial need.  

The John G. Menges Endowed Scholarship

The John G. Menges Endowed Scholarship is for continuing SU students.  To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must demonstrate financial need and be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate major in the College of Science & Engineering at Seattle University.

The Richard Schwaegler Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering

The Richard Schwaegler Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering is for continuing SU students. To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must meet demonstrated financial need, be enrolled as a civil and environmental engineering major, and be a junior or senior.  

The Women of Seattle University Endowed Scholarship

The Women of SU Endowed Scholarship is for continuing SU students. To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must demonstrate financial need, be enrolled full-time in a STEM-related academic major at Seattle University, be a junior or senior, and have a 3.0 GPA or higher. Priority consideration is given for underrepresented student populations, especially women. 

The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship 

The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship supports low- and middle-income students pursuing eligible high-demand majors in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) or health care and encourages recipients to work in Washington state once they complete their degrees. The amount of funding that selected students will be eligible to receive each year varies based on the number of credits they have completed. Applicants must be a high school senior, college freshman or sophomore at the time of application with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.75 (on a 4.0 scale).  

Award recipients must be a Washington state resident and have earned a high school diploma or GED from a Washington state high school or institution by June of the year they apply to college, be pursuing an eligible high-demand major in a STEM field or health care, and be working toward a first bachelor's degree, (i.e. four-year degree) as a full-time college student at an eligible Washington state college or university.