Scholarships

Architecture Department Scholarships

AIA New Mexico and Professor Stephen Dent Sustainable Design Scholarship in Architecture
Selection Criteria: To be awarded to a Master of Architecture Student with a 3.0 GPA or higher, who has delayed need and is in their last year of the program. This student must also demonstrate a commitment to sustainable issues through a digital portfolio of their work. 
Award starts at $500

AIA Santa Fe Chapter Endowed / Bradley P. Kidder Endowed Memorial Scholarship
Selection Criteria: The fund provides for annual scholarships to be used for students in the UNM SA+P Master of Architecture Program with two or more semesters remaining in the completion of the degree. The student must demonstrate exemplary work in advanced technology skills used in the practice of architecture. Scholarship preference is given to graduates of public or private schools in the following northern New Mexico counties: Colfax, Harding, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos, or Union.
Award starts at $1300

AIA Santa Fe Chapter Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: To provide for annual scholarships to be used for students in the UNM SA+P Masters of Architecture Program with two or more semesters remaining in the completion of the degree. The student must demonstrate exemplary work in the area of exploration of sustainable issues in architecture of New Mexico or the desert Southwest.
Award starts at $1500

Anne Taylor Design Education Scholarship
Selection Criteria: The scholarship is for architecture students who are interested in teaching design education at the Pre-K-12 levels or who want to research, write about, or design a learning environment as a studio for children and test its effects on occupants. The student must be enrolled in cross-disciplinary design education at UNM.
Award starts at $1000

Cherry See Scholarship in Architecture
Selection Criteria: For undergraduate (end of 2nd or 3rd year) and graduate students (who receive their undergraduate degree from UNM, or incoming graduate students who completed their first year of graduate study). Must be a full-time student (15 credit hours). Must have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.75 and graduate GPA of 3.0. Must maintain these minimum GPAs to be considered for succeeding years. Must have financial need. Scholarship may be awarded to the same student throughout their studies or to a different student each year.
Award starts at $1300

Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Albuquerque Chapter Endowed Scholarship 
Selection Criteria: Awarded to a graduate or undergraduate student enrolled in the Architecture Program Must be a full-time student with 2.75 GPA overall, 3.25 GPA in architecture courses. May be awarded to the same student throughout their studies. This scholarship rotates between engineering and architecture programs. Therefore, this scholarship is offered every odd ending year to an architecture student.
Awards $500

David Keller Endowed Memorial Travel Fellowship
Selection Criteria: To support foreign or domestic travel for research purposes. Recipient must be a returning graduate student enrolled in the Architecture program. Recipients will make a presentation to the donor during the semester following their travel experiences.
Award starts at $2000

Donald Tucker Scholarship in Architecture for a Socially Responsible Undergraduate Student
Selection Criteria: The recipient should demonstrate social responsibility through experience with work- or volunteer-related activities for organizations that support undeserved or disadvantaged communities.
Award starts at $3500

Gilberto Churchill Forbes Scholarship
Selection Criteria: For an Architecture major, undergraduate student in 3rd or 4th year with a minimum GPA of 2.75. Must demonstrate financial need. Must exhibit a passion and talent for architecture, as demonstrated in their scholarship application.
Award starts at $1000

Jim and Jeanette Larson Architecture Student Support Fund
Selection Criteria: The student must be currently pursuing a degree in Architecture, and demonstrates financial need. Recipients shall be selected by the Dean or his/her delegates in accordance with the normal procedures and criteria used to select any and all award winners. The award is to be used to purchase supplies, books or other media needed to complete a degree in Architecture.
Award starts at $1000

Lou Weller Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: For a student in either the undergraduate or graduate program in Architecture with proven financial need. First preference is to an enrolled member of a U.S. federally recognized American Indian tribe who has graduated from secondary school in New Mexico. The student must have at least a 3.0 GPA.
Award starts at $1200

NM Southern Chapter AIA Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: The student must demonstrate academic achievement and must be enrolled as a third- or fourth-year undergraduate student in the Architecture Program. Scholarship preferences will be given to residents of the following southern New Mexico counties: Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Quay, Roosevelt, or Sierra. The scholarship may be awarded to the same student in successive years as long as the student continues to demonstrate academic achievement and remains in the Architecture Program. Each scholarship recipient shall make an annual presentation of his or her work at a regularly scheduled monthly NM Southern Chapter AIA meeting.
Award starts at $500

Professor Don and Jackie Schlegel Graduate Award
Selection Criteria: The selection of the student to receive this award shall be based on the Architecture faculty’s determination of the best project completed in the terminal studio that fully represents the integration of design and technology.
Award starts at $2800

Robert G. Mallory Architecture Scholarship in Architecture
Selection Criteria: The scholarship is awarded annually to a Master of Architecture student who grasps the discipline and shows competence in the processes of transforming architectural design into built reality.
Award starts at $1600

Schoeman Travel Endowment for Architecture
Selection Criteria: To support travel within the Architecture Program, including domestic and foreign travel by students as approved by the Director of the Architecture Program.
Award starts at $4000

Westwork Architects Scholarship in Memory of Glade F. Sperry and Lawrence W. Licht
Selection Criteria: For a student in the graduate program in Architecture and maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher. To be selected by the Dean or appointed delegates. Can be awarded to the same student in successive years. 
Award starts at $1000

Scholarships for Incoming ARCH Graduate Students

Don Schlegel Design Excellence in Architecture Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: A graduate student entering the Master’s degree program in Architecture. The student must have completed their undergraduate degree in Architecture at UNM. The recipient must be a graduate of a New Mexico high school.
Awarded $1550

Don Stevens Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: A graduate student entering the Master’s degree program in Architecture holding an undergraduate degree from UNM School of Architecture and Planning.
Award starts at $800

George Anselevicius Graduate Scholarship
Selection Criteria: The recipient must be a graduate student in Architecture dealing with the study of housing.
Awarded $2500

James W. and Jeanette C. Larson Endowment Scholarship for Architecture
Selection Criteria: A graduate student who is entering the Master’s degree program in Architecture. The student must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution other than the University of New Mexico.
Awarded $1000

John Quinn Pate Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: For a graduate student in the Architecture program.
Awarded $1000

Lalitha K. Iyengar Endowment
Selection Criteria: The scholarship is to support international students in the Architecture Program at SA+P. The fund may be used to provide assistance in the form of scholarships, faculty-directed student travel, stipends for summer architecture internships, registration and associated travel costs for conferences.
Award starts at $2500

Maureen McMahon Walter Endowed Memorial Scholarship for Women in Architecture
Selection Criteria: To support women graduate students in the Architecture Program. The recipient must demonstrate academic achievement, be enrolled as a new or returning full-time student at UNM SA+P. Scholarship preference will be given to new graduate students entering the program.
Awarded $1000

NCA Architects Endowed Scholarship
Selection Criteria: For a graduate student with an undergraduate degree in architecture who is entering the two-year master’s degree in architecture program.
Awarded $1200

CRP Department Scholarships

Cynefin Scholarship
Selection Criteria: To support students who are admitted into the BA in Environmental Planning and Design Program (BAEPD) and are New Mexico high school graduates. Students much show financial need. Award is for the cost differential between the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship and tuition. Additional funds up to $500 for emergency needs as determined by the dean. Recipients must write a letter to donor expressing how they will use their education to benefit the community they come from. Selection by a committee that includes the CRP Chair, a BAEPD associated faculty member, and both the undergraduate and graduate advisors.
Awarded $6400

Herb Denish Memorial Scholarship
Selection Critiera: The recipient must be a student of the UNM School of Architecture + Planning, with at least one semester remaining before graduation, and a graduate of a New Mexico High School. Preferences may be given to eligible students who are enrolled in the Community and Regional Planning program at SA+P and are enrolled in a Graduate Degree program.
Awarded $1000

Rankin Family Endowment Memorial Scholarship
Selection Criteria: The student must demonstrate academic achievement, including making satisfactory academic progress toward a degree and maintaining a minimum GPA of 3.0 in CRP courses. The student must be enrolled as a full-time, returning graduate student in the CRP Program, and express a passion for physical planning.
Awarded $1000

Tir Comin Graduate Fellowship
Selection Criteria: First preference is to an enrolled member of a U.S. federally recognized American Indian tribe who has graduated from secondary school in the Four Corners states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, or Utah or who is resident in one of these states at the time of admission to the CRP program. A student who attended high school in New Mexico may receive the Graduate Fellowship if there is no eligible Native American student from the Four Comers states. The Graduate Fellowship may be awarded for two consecutive years to the same student, provided the student is making satisfactory academic progress and has maintained a 3.75 GPA. The recipient is will be requested to write a letter to the donor expressing how the fellowship will benefit the community from which they come from.
Award starts at $7000

LA Department Scholarships

Connie Hyde Memorial Scholarship
Selection Criteria: Recipients shall be selected by the Dean or his/her delegates in accordance with the normal procedures and criteria used to select any and all scholarship award winners. The recipient must be a woman who is starting a second career in design, and who is enrolled in the 3-year MLA program. Preferences are given to students who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color), have a focus on issues of racial/environmental justice, and who want to do a study abroad class.
Awarded at the discretion of the Fund Administrator

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini Scholarship
Selection Criteria: LA Student that demonstrates design excellence.
Award starts at $500

Mitchell Associates Scholarship 
Selection Criteria: Awarded to a student in the Landscape Architecture program at SA+P. The recipient must be a student in good academic standing. Preference will be given to students with financial need.
Award starts at $1000

Morrow Stratham Award
Selection Criteria: To be selected by the Landscape Architecture Department Chair on the basis of need or merit. For two (2) BAEDP students entering the MLA in the Landscape Architecture Department. A recipient must be a UNM/SA+P graduate and have a BAEPD major and enter the UNM/SA+P Master of Landscape Architecture Program. Preferences are given to exceptional scholars, talented designers, and students who intend to become a licensed Landscape Architect.
Awarded at the discretion of the Fund Administrator

Pland Collaborative Excellence Award
Selection Criteria: The Pland Collaborative Excellence Award will be given to an MLA student who demonstrates professionalism and work that represents pragmatism, beauty, innovation and resilience.
Award starts at $1200

Yellowstone Landscape Scholarship
Designing, building and maintaining beautiful and sustainable landscapes for clients and users is at the core of Yellowstone Landscape’s mission. The Yellowstone Landscape Scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding MLA student who demonstrates curiosity, collaboration, and a holistic approach to landscape design from concept to construction and maintenance.
Award starts at $1000