New and Current Students: Apply for Scholarships Today! Scholarship Universe is where you will find and apply for most internal and external scholarships. To maximize financial aid, complete your FAFSA and your Scholarship Universe profile by February 1. The system matches you with scholarship applications based on your profile and matching questions, so filling it out completely matters. To maximize your scholarship opportunities, you should complete the Scholarship Universe applications each year.
For technical or application questions, please contact CFAES Scholarships at CFAES-Scholarships@osu.edu
This past year, CFAES undergraduate students received more than $3.6 million in scholarships from our college to attend Columbus and Wooster campuses.
Key Steps
- Log in to Scholarship Universe through Buckeye Link using your Ohio State username (lastname.#) and password. Or copy and paste https://osu.scholarshipuniverse.com/ into your browser.
- Complete your profile and begin answering questions that will help match you to scholarships and applications to further complete. The more questions you answer, the more scholarship opportunities available to you! Be sure to complete the CFAES Scholarships Application AND the application for your individual major.
- Scholarship Universe matches you with various scholarship opportunities and alerts you whenever you match to a new scholarship opportunity, so continue answering questions. You'll want to keep coming back to Scholarship Universe to check if you have new matches to scholarships.
- Login through the secure portal to check your application statuses, look for additional scholarship opportunities and more. See user instructions and tips.
- Check out our quick tips file for help on navigating Scholarship Universe.
Key Timeline
- FAFSA opens: October 1, 2025
- Scholarship Universe opens: December 1, 2025
- Priority deadline for completion of University scholarships: February 1, 2026
- Priority deadline for CFAES and academic unit scholarships: February 15, 2026