Scholarship Universe

All Scholarship opportunities in one place!

Scholarships

In an effort to improve educational accessibility and affordability, Student Financial Aid Services began the process of providing relevant, trusted external scholarship opportunities to you using new software, Scholarship Universe. This is an initiative that will allow you to maximize your scholarship award opportunities while allowing you to continue your goal of achieving an NJIT degree. 

About Scholarship Universe

  • Scholarship Universe is an online portal intended to reduce “scholarship search fatigue” by bridging students to vetted scholarship opportunities through an adaptive matching engine, which identifies relevant scholarships based on individual student's personal information, needs, and eligibility.
  • Based on information submitted to build the student's personalized Scholarship Universe profile, students will be able to review a customized list of scholarship opportunities that they qualify for, learn the dollar value of matched opportunities, and directly connect and submit online applications with organizations offering those scholarships.

Steps to apply for External Scholarships:

  1. Log in to the platform from this link: https://njit.scholarshipuniverse.com (Use UCID and Password to log in to the system. If you have not already claimed your UCID, we urge you to create your University Computing Identification (UCID) as soon as possible so that you will be able to access NJIT's Scholarship Universe portal. For details on how to set up your UCID, please go to: http://ist.njit.edu/ucid)
  2. Upon answering some profile questions at the dashboard, the system will match your profile with the criteria from the external scholarship opportunities.
  3. Review the vetted list of external scholarship opportunities and total dollar value for each scholarship opportunity.
  4. Go to the Scholarship Tile from the options on the left of the screen
  5. View Eligible Scholarships to apply in the Matches section
  6. Click on Apply to begin the Scholarship application process
  7. You will be directed to the specific external scholarship page to apply for the scholarship
  8. External scholarship agency will contact you directly if selected

Students should take care of the following:

  • Be sure to update your profile frequently (such as GPA, Major, etc.) to get matched to all the eligible scholarships in a better way.
  • Be sure to answer ALL the questions in order to build your profile which would match you to the most relevant scholarships.
  • Make sure to complete the outstanding tasks to be considered without any delays. 

If you still have any questions, please go through our FAQs or contact Student Financial Aid Services at finaid@njit.edu or 973-596-3479.