Minority Accounting Scholarships

KPMG Foundation Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarships

• Minority accounting doctoral scholarships are provided by the KPMG Foundation annually to U.S citizens and U.S permanent residents with green cards who are enrolled in a full-time accredited accounting doctoral program. Funds are in the amount of $10,000 a year with annual renewal (not to exceed $50,000) provided for African-American, Native American or Hispanic-American students. Awards are recommended by the foundation to be used toward tuition and fees and assistantships. Application forms must be accompanied with the letter of acceptance into the program, a cover letter, a current resume and all college transcripts.

  KPMG Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Program
  KPMG Foundation
  Three Chestnut Ridge Road
  Montvale, New Jersey 07645
  800-677-SIFE
  kpmgfoundation.org

American Institute of CPAs Scholarships

• The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) offers scholarships for minority accounting students and fellowships for minority doctoral students. The scholarships for minority accounting students are designated to full-time undergraduate students who are declared accounting majors with GPAs of 3.3 or more and have completed at least 30 semester hours. They are also available to graduate students who are currently in five-year (doctoral) accounting, business administration, taxation or finance programs and were accounting undergraduate students, or are currently full-time graduate students enrolled in a master's accounting program. More than $6 million has been awarded to recipients of these scholarships in past years in the amount of $5,000 each. Fellowships are awarded for up to $12,000 once annually to minority students enrolled in doctoral accounting programs who plan on becoming accounting educators and agree to teach at least one course per semester as a teaching assistant or spend at least one quarter of their time as a research assistant.

  AICPA Headquarters
  1211 Avenue of the Americas
  New York, New York 10036
  212-596-6200
  aicpa.org

National Association of Black Accountants

• The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) offers its annual National Scholarship Program to 40 to 70 students, awarding between $1,000 and $10,000 each. This program provides eight scholarship options. The qualifications are that the student is an ethnic minority currently enrolled in an accredited four-year institution as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student of accounting, is an active member of the NABA and meets GPA requirements of either a 2.0 major GPA and 2.5 overall or 3.5 major GPA and 3.3 overall, depending on which specific scholarship is chosen. Applications include two letters of recommendation, an official transcript, a 500-word personal biography, a current resume and the completion of the National Scholarship Application (NSA).

  National Association of Black Accountants
  National Scholarship Program
  7474 Greenway Center Drive, Suite 1120
  Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
  301-474-6222
  nabainc.org