External Scholarships

The Kean University Office of Scholarship Services is happy to process all external donor scholarship awards. All external awards letters and scholarship checks should be sent or delivered to the Scholarship Office, locared in Townsend Hall, Room 122. All donors and recipients are strongly encouraged to review the Policies and procedures before making arrangements.

Policies and Procedures 
Often, a student receives a scholarship from an organization, foundation or philanthropist that is not affliliated with Kean University or the Foundation Office. This is known as an external scholarship, and The Office of Scholarship Services is happy to process these awards as well.

Many external scholarships and funding entities have different timelines and criteria, the process for handling these awards is ongoing throughout the year. However, there are a few simple ways to ensure that your external scholarship is posted in the most timely fashion possible.

• Ensure that the check is made out to The Kean University Foundation, Inc.
• Indicate the recipient's name and student ID number on the check
• Make sure that the address of the funding entity or bank is on the check
• Submit both the award letter and check together
• Keep copies of everything for your personal files

Checks must be sent to:
Kean University Office of Scholarship Services
Townsend Hall, Room 122
1000 Morris Avenue
Union, NJ 07083

Please do NOT send external scholarship checks to Student Accounting.

In the event that a check is forthcoming, please supply the Office of Scholarship Services with a copy of the award letter as well as any accompanying information that should be included in the file as per the funding entity's guidelines. This way, a record of the pending award will be reflected in the student recipient's KeanWise account until the check arrives and is processed.

We cannot process checks made out directly to a student, nor can we accept a check which lists a student as the co-payee.

For more external scholarship links click here.

Please email kuscholar@kean.edu with any questions about the external scholarship process.