The Ancient Language Prerequisite Tuition Scholarship is designed to help students take necessary language prerequisites free-of-charge.
Ancient Language Tuition Scholarship
Wheaton College provides an Ancient Language Tuition Scholarship for you to take Hebrew and/or Greek prerequisite language courses at Wheaton. This scholarship, covering up to 16 credit hours, significantly reduces the overall cost for studying the biblical languages. This scholarship does not cover the cost for competency exams or the cost for ancient language courses taken at another college or university.
The scholarship applies to the following ancient language courses:
- HEBR 101
- HEBR 102
- GREEK 101
- GREEK 102
How does it work?
A student is charged the tuition cost for a language prerequisite course the semester he/she registers for the class. At the end of the add/drop period, the enrollment for these courses is confirmed. Students pursing the M.A. in Biblical Exegesis who are also enrolled in these courses will receive a scholarship for the tuition charged for these courses.
Scholarship Details
The scholarship is not matched dollar-for-dollar if you received an institutional scholarship during the term you completed the undergraduate ancient language course. Scholarship awards are based on taking 8 credit hours of graduate level courses. Instead of reducing the merit award for the semester(s) you are taking an undergraduate language course(s), we prorate the Ancient Language Scholarship.
For example, if a student receives a $1,500 endowed scholarship in a semester where he/she took 12 credit hours of which 4 were ancient language credits, one third of the scholarship helped fund the undergraduate language course. Therefore, the Ancient Language Scholarship awarded would be the amount of the tuition for 4 credit hours less $500. If a student receives a 25% tuition scholarship, the Ancient Language Scholarship will be awarded at 75% of the MA tuition rate since this is what the student is charged.
It is best to take the ancient language prerequisite courses early in your studies. The tuition scholarship is not available after completing the 42 credit hours required to earn the degree. It is also not available if a student leaves the program without completing his/her degree. The Exegesis Program will notify the Office of Student Financial Services of the scholarship amount the drop/add date for the current semester has passed.
The Ancient Language Scholarship will only be awarded for tuition paid by the student and not be awarded in excess of a student’s tuition charges. If a student is receiving institutional scholarships in the amount of his/her tuition charges (i.e. the Billy Graham Center Scholarship), he/she will not receive the Ancient Language Rebate as excess since the student did not pay for the course. Rather, the student’s institutional scholarship(s) will be decreased by the amount of the rebate.
