Application deadline: The 2023 scholarship application deadline has now passed. Please check back for 2024 information soon!
Who should apply for a Foundation scholarship?
The Foundation is seeking applicants who understand the critical role that CPAs play in our society and who are eager to join a profession built on a commitment to serve the public interest. The CPA of the future must have the ability to analyze complex information and communicate it in ways that people can understand.
The Foundation encourages applications from students who:
- Enjoy finding practical significance in abstract ideas
- Have strong interpersonal skills
- Are technologically adept
- Highly disciplined and
- Equally productive whether working alone or with others.
Applicants are asked to provide information demonstrating that they possess these traits or have the potential to develop them.
What types of scholarships does the Foundation award?
The NC CPA Foundation, Inc. has three scholarship levels. Based on your eligibility, the application will automatically default to the scholarship you qualify for. All applicants must be NCACPA members to apply for a scholarship. Student membership is FREE and may be obtained here. Prior award winners are eligible to apply for scholarships through the NC CPA Foundation.
See below for additional resources available to NC accounting students.
NEW Scholarship Alert!
Deloitte Accounting Scholarship Program
Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program
Over the next several years, the Deloitte Foundation expects to fund $25 million in scholarships for students, including students interested in pursuing a fifth-year master’s degree in accounting, master’s in taxation or master’s in accounting with a concentration in audit, advisory, or tax through the Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars Program. In the spirit of supporting a diverse student population and to strengthen the pipeline of diverse talent entering the CPA profession, the Deloitte Foundation and participating universities will provide the Deloitte Foundation Accounting Scholars a scholarship that covers 100% of their tuition (excluding books and living expenses) for the 2024–2025 academic year. Please note that application deadlines vary by school.
Note: UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina A&T State, and Wake Forest participate in the Scholars Program.
Various application deadlines in April and May 2024
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
$1,500 SCHOLARSHIPS
The Foundation offers scholarships to students enrolled at North Carolina community colleges are pursuing a two-year associate degree with the intent to enroll in a four-year program and have the potential to become a CPA.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
$2,000 SCHOLARSHIPS
Four-year college/university students are encouraged to apply if they are enrolled in a program that will allow them: 1) to achieve the accounting concentration required to sit for the CPA Exam or 2) to earn the undergraduate hours needed to enroll in a graduate program in order to achieve the concentration.
GRADUATE
PROGRAM
$2,500 SCHOLARSHIPS
Students enrolled in a graduate accounting program that will allow them to achieve the accounting concentration required to sit for the CPA Exam are encouraged to apply.
GOING FORWARD IN GRATITUDE
Read how some of our recent NC CPA Foundation Scholarship recipients are impacted by the help they’ve received! Whatever your goal is and wherever you are in your accounting education journey, applying for a scholarship could be what keeps you moving forward!
Here’s what these recipients had to say:
Hear From Julianna
This is such great news at the perfect time!! I’m in the middle of final exam season and this was the perfect boost of confidence I needed. Thank you and the NC CPA Foundation’s Board of Directors so much for choosing me for such an impactful and honorable scholarship award! I’m so flattered to have been chosen and I look forward to putting this award to good use in my academic career.
– Julianna L., North Carolina State University
Hear From Jim
I am so thankful to be selected again for this scholarship. I am more than appreciative of the NC CPA Foundation and look forward to my continuous involvement with the organization throughout my career.
– Jim D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hear From Sloan
Thank you so much! I appreciated the NCACPA’s support last year, and I very much appreciate you all still supporting me this year. It means so much that your organization sees potential in me & wants to support my goals!
– Sloan R., Appalachian State University