Cost
Percentage of incoming undergraduates who receive an offer of institutional aid.
What is 100%
The percentage of the university's financial aid budget funded by endowment and expendable gifts.
What is 16.8%?
Note: 470 named endowed/gift scholarships equaling $8.5 million (2022-23).
A gift made of $50,000 that will payout a percentage in support of a student(s) each year, intended to last indefinitely.
What is an endowed scholarship fund?
Average price for one year of study after grant, loan, and work study are applied.
What is $31,701?
Note: The median amount borrowed by an undergraduate student over four years is $25,000.
The number of years an endowed fund is anticipated to yield a payout.
What is perpetuity, or indefinite?
An annual gift pledge of $5,000 for four years, providing an unrestricted scholarship that will help a current student achieve their educational goals, named in your honor (or in honor of someone you choose).
What is a Puget Sound Fund Named Annual Scholarship?
The average university-funded financial aid offer per undergraduate student in 2022-23.
What is $30,535?
The minimum gift amount to establish an endowed financial aid fund.
How much is $50,000?
Note: $100,000 if the donor wishes to restrict it with awarding criteria.
Endowed gift amount that would eliminate the average unmet need for one undergraduate.
What is $262,000?
Puget Sound has three publicized full-need financial aid commitment programs. Name one.
What are the:
Posse Scholars Commitment
Tacoma Public Schools Commitment
Access Commitment
Note: Also of note is the Neukom Scholarship, Pohlad Family Scholarship, and the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) Scholarship.
As of August 2024, this is the current dollar value of the university's overall endowment.
How much is $488,000,000?
*51% of the endowment supports student financial aid.
Endowed gift amount that would eliminate tuition for one undergraduate student.
What is 1.25 million?