Money is the number one cause of students not completing their college degree. Please make sure you complete your FAFSA and reach out to your Financial Aid Counselor if you have any questions. You can visit the website to learn more about grants, loans, scholarships, and student employment. You will want to contact your financial aid counselor whenever you need to withdraw from a class, and you will run into financial aid (as well as academic) complications if your GPA is not above a 2.0! If you are a veteran, an active service member, or a dependent of either you can learn more about Veterans Services also. Office of Financial Aid | LSU New Orleans (uno.edu)
This scholarship was founded by BSCS alumni Sabrina D. Farmer ('95) in 1996. Sabrina is the current Chief Technology Officer of GitLab and awards up to two recipients a year.
Dr. Fredrick A. Hosch is one of the founding faculty members of LSU New Orleans Computer Science Department. He joined the department in 1972 and remained a consistent source of knowledge for students, faculty, and staff until 2006. The Frederick Hosch Scholarship aims to support students who are traditionally under-represented in Computer Science. Link for more details
The Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity scholarship is available to students at select universities who are designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Security Education (CAE) and Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help recruit & retain qualified students into DoD’s increasing need for cybersecurity professionals. There are currently four LSU New Orleans CSCI students awarded this scholarship: two undergraduate students and two graduate students.
The ACERS Scholarship (Achievement in ComputER Science) is a merit-based scholarship for students who can demonstrate a degree of financial need greater than that of the scholarship. Twenty ACER scholarships are awarded each semester specifically to LSU New Orleans Computer Science students.
The Office of Financial Aid will be asked to provide need and scholarship numbers on a per-student basis, and the recipients will be chosen by the Department based on merit and eligibility. If you have been chosen for this scholarship you will be notified shortly, and you will need to either accept or decline within 24 hours. In order to maintain this scholarship in a full Fall-Spring cycle the student must remain in good standing with the University.
Award will consist of:
The amount of the scholarship is $750 (graduate) / $500 (undergraduate) per semester, and the students are chosen on a per-year basis (starting in fall).
The scholarship is offered to defray tuition costs in the Fall and Spring semesters.
The COMPLETER scholarship (COMPuter science cLosE to TERminus) is meant to aid students who are nearing graduation, which significant financial need, to finish their degrees without having to take gap semesters to pay for school. Our goal is to reduce the length-of-time to degree for committed students.
Students who have significant financial need, and who have taken, or are in danger of having to take gap semesters in order to pay for school, and who also have above a 2.5 GPA will be eligible for this scholarship.The Department, based on data both from the office of Financial Aid and from conversations with students and students’ academic history will identify students who will be given these awards on a semester-by-semester basis. These will typically be restricted to students with less than 45 credit hours to degree completion, with exceptions to be made at the discretion of the Department.
Application:
Students who have been chosen for this scholarship will be notified shortly, and you will need to either accept or decline within 24 hours.
Award will consist of:
These scholarships will be $750 (graduate) / $500 (undergraduate) per student per semester.
The Mentorship program aids in student retention by pairing Junior, Senior, or Graduate students to act as mentors to Freshman-level students who are in CSCI 1583, CSCI 2120, and CSCI 2125 and CSCI 2450. The Mentors will be expected to meet for 2 hrs per week with a student, and provide assistance with things like study habits, programming tips, exam preparation assistance, the importance of actually turning in assigned homework, etc.
If you are interested in being a Mentor, please reach out to Dr. Summa prior to the start of the semester. Qualified students should email [email protected] with [CSCI MENTOR APPLY] at the beginning of the subject line.
Award will consist of:
The Student Mentors are paid hourly at a rate of: undergraduate: $11/hr, graduate: $12/hr.
LSU New Orleans offers two flagship programs that introduce undergraduate students to research opportunities:
Privateer Undergraduate Research & Scholarly LSU New Orleans Experience (PURSUE)
College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Program (CoSURP)
Through these programs, undergraduates are awarded student worker positions with LSU New Orleans faculty members. As these programs are generously funded in part by the Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust, undergraduate students who receive these positions are known as "Tolmas Scholars." Learn More
Complete and submit an online application (to come). Note: A single application initiates consideration for both programs. However, only science majors are eligible for CoSURP awards. Only one award will be made per student.
Award will consist of:
Tolmas Scholars are awarded student worker positions paying $15 per hour at a maximum of 10 hours per week.
From left to right, Ashley Bayer (LSU New Orleans CSCI Student, Class of 2020, Recipient of Women in CS Scholarship), Sabrina Farmer (LSU New Orleans CSCI Alumna, Director of Engineering for the Site Reliability team at Google), Veronica Spicer (LSU New Orleans CSCI Student, Class of 2021, Recipient of Women in CS Scholarship)
