News and Information

Apply for a AIAS/AIA Trust Scholarship for Emerging Professionals


With ever increasing college tuition, students are facing staggering college costs--with no sign of slowing down in sight. Tuition continues to rise, and students are looking for more and more ways to pay for college.

Architecture students have the usual financial burdens as their peers:

Tuition	Supplies
Room and board	Clothing
Text books	Transportation

They also have the added expenses of the following:

Computers	Printing
Software	Field trips and foreign travel
Studio supplies	Summer internship

Depending on a program's requirement, these items can cost thousands of dollars each academic year. Furthermore, students and graduates wishing to pursue a license also have the fees for enrollment in the Intern Development Program (IDP) and the Architect Registration Exam (ARE).

While the amount varies per student, it is obvious that studying architecture in pursuit of a professional degree can be very expensive--perhaps far more than the average college student. Students can therefore graduate with an above average amount of debt due to loans.

To alleviate some of this burden, the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and the AIA Trust have joined together to establish the AIAS/AIA Trust Scholarship Program for Emerging Professionals. Our collective goal is to assist students with their educational pursuits by helping to minimize their financial obligations. This scholarship program is primarily intended to assist students with financial need by helping to pay their tuition and/or other direct educational expenses. The architecture profession needs talented individuals to help lead it into the future and we expect this program will help remove of some of the barriers to a career in architecture.

Up to six scholarships of $750 each will be awarded for the 2009-2010 school year. The program is limited to AIAS members in their fifth year of an undergraduate professional degree or their first year of graduate professional degree. The application deadline for the 2009-2010 school year is December 4, 2009.

Click here to download the application (PDF).

If you do not have the necessary software, you can merge individual PDFs via a free service: mergepdfs.net.

Questions? Call the AIAS at 202.626.7472 or send a message to scholarship@aias.org.

Read about other scholarship programs.