The AICPA Foundation, the largest member association representing the accounting profession, has announced hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships and fellowships for America’s top accounting scholars. Scholarship awards are offered to students from the undergraduate to doctoral levels, with an emphasis on enhancing the skills and strengths of tomorrow’s CPA leaders.
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AICPA scholarship opportunities include the AICPA Fellowship for Minority Doctoral Students, which aims to increase the number of CPAs who serve as role models and mentors to young people in the academic environment. The program provides individual awards of $12,000/year to doctoral candidates who show significant potential to become educators in the classroom.
There’s also the AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship, which provides financial assistance to non-business degree holders who are pursuing both graduate studies in accounting and the CPA licensure. These awards are intended to encourage students with little or no previous accounting education to consider professional accounting careers.
The AICPA Scholarship for Minority Accounting Students offers scholarship awards to undergraduate and graduate-level students. Since 1969 this program has awarded more than $14 million to approximately 8,000 accounting students.
The Two-year Transfer Scholarship Award provides financial assistance to students looking to transfer from a two-year college to a four-year institution to complete their degree in accounting or an accounting-related field.
The William (Bill) Ezzell Scholarship provides a one-time award of $10,000 to five outstanding accounting Ph.D. candidates who demonstrate significant potential to become mentors for the next generation of CPAs.
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