Scholarship Funding Opportunities in the Raj Soin College of Business Supporting the Next Generation of Ethical Business Leaders

Here are just a few of the scholarship funds available to Raj Soin College of Business Students.  To contribute to any of these scholarships or establish a new endowed scholarship, please contact Colleen Lampton Brill, Director of Development for the Raj Soin College of Business, 937-775-2852, colleen.lampton@wright.edu

Alumni Accountancy Scholarships—Available to part-time accountancy students. This scholarship is designed to foster academic achievement, professional development, and future alumni involvement. The scholarship will recognize extracurricular activities, leadership, and outstanding academic achievement.

Bank One Lending Hands Education Grants Program— Candidates must be full-time students majoring in banking related fields; e.g. accountancy, economics, finance, management, marketing, and information systems and operations management.

Battelle and Battelle Scholarship—Established to give financial assistance to accounting majors with demonstrated financial need.

Barnes and Noble Business and Fiscal Affairs Scholarship—Established to provide encouragement and financial assistance to students who have demonstrated an interest in a career in college bookstore retail management.

James W. Blain Scholarship Fund (Arthur Anderson & Co. – Employees)—For accountancy students.

Dr. Sonia Brecha Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund—Recipients may be full- or part-time undergraduate or graduate students in good academic standing majoring in accountancy.

Brower Insurance Agency Endowed Scholarship—Established to provide funding to students demonstrating an interest in corporate insurance, customer service, financial services, sales, marketing, and communications careers.

Roger Brucker Scholarship for Marketing Enthusiasm—For marketing graduate students who have clearly demonstrated an ongoing enthusiasm of pursuing a marketing career and the application of marketing to problem solving. The award is to be used to offset the cost of tuition, fees, and required textbooks.

Business Alumni Associates Scholarship—Awards will be made to graduate or undergraduate students pursuing studies in the Raj Soin College of Business.

Dayton EC Forum Scholarship—Established to give financial assistance to students with demonstrated financial need who are majoring in MSIS, marketing, or e-commerce.

Dean Investment Associates Scholarship—First preference to candidates who are pursuing dual majors of finance and accountancy. Second preference to finance majors, and third preference to accountancy majors.

Deloitte & Touche LLP Accounting Excellence Scholarship—For full-time students who are in good academic standing.

Daniel W. Duval Endowed Scholarship (Robbins & Myers, Inc.)—Awards are rotated between the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Raj Soin College of Business. The award will first be given to a student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and will remain with that student until he/she graduates or becomes ineligible. The scholarship will then be awarded to a Raj Soin College of Business student based on the same conditions. The award will alternate indefinitely.

Thomas Dovel Memorial Scholarship Fund—Provide financial assistance and encouragement to deserving students who intend to pursue a career in marketing.

Ernst & Young Scholarship Agreement—Distributions of the scholarship fund shall be awarded to outstanding students majoring in accounting who, in the opinion of the committee, have demonstrated potential for academic success.

Fifth Third Bank Scholarship—Candidates must be continuing students who are pursuing majors in the Raj Soin College of Business and in good academic standing as determined by Wright State University.

William L. Gans Scholarship—Established to give financial assistance to students majoring in accounting with demonstrated financial need.

Gillispie Family Scholarship—Established to support the efforts of needy African American students wishing to complete their bachelor’s degree from the Raj Soin College of Business.

David S. Gutridge Business Scholarship—Established to reward students who best exemplify the ideal qualities the Raj Soin College of Business. These qualities include being of strong moral character while demonstrating a well-rounded and sustained work ethic, high academic performance, leadership, and university and/or community involvement.

IAFP Scholarship (International Association for Financial Planning, Dayton Chapter, Inc.)—For full-time juniors majoring in financial services.

Daniel J. Kaufman Memorial Scholarship (Sally E. Kaufman or Mrs. Daniel J.)—To provide financial assistance and encouragement to deserving students who intend to pursue a career in financial services or finance.

Wilma J. Kelly Scholarship (Wilma J. and Dennis P. Kelly Trust)—Established to support the efforts on non-traditional female students wishing to complete their bachelor’s degree in financial services.

Thomas E. Kreusch Family Scholarship—Candidates must have majors in real estate or finance, a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average, and demonstrated financial need.

Rishi Kumar Endowed Student Scholarship Fund—To encourage and give financial assistance to students in the Raj Soin College of Business who demonstrate financial need and a high potential to graduate.

Lofino Scholarship (LCM Foundation)—To encourage and give financial assistance to students pursuing majors within the Raj Soin College of Business.

Howard L. Magner Accountancy Scholarship—The annual income will be used to fund one student who is pursuing a major in the Accountancy Department. 

Steve Mason Business Scholarship—Established to provide funding for continuing Raj Soin College of Business students.

Naum Scholarship—One scholarship will be awarded each year to an outstanding Beavercreek High School senior who plans to major in business at Wright State University.

Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants Scholarship—First preference will be given to students intending to pursue a career in public accounting.

Donald F. Pabst Endowed Scholarship Fund (WSU Accountancy Dept.)—Recipients may be either full-time senior accountancy majors in good standing with the university or full-time graduate students enrolled in the Master of Accountancy Program.

Jacob E. Paperman Scholarship (WSU Accountancy Dept.)—Recipients must be senior accountancy majors in good academic standing as determined by Wright State University.

Denny and Sharon Phillips Scholarship Fund—Established for Fairborn High School students pursuing a major in the Raj Soin College of Business. 

Robins & Myers Scholarship—Awards will be rotated between the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Raj Soin College of Business, with one award made annually to a full-time junior or senior with a 3.0 or higher cumulative grade point average.

William Schoenfeld Scholarship—Established to give financial assistance to accounting majors with demonstrated financial need.

Scitex Endowed Scholarship (Scitex Digital Printing, Inc.)—Applicants will be full-time, continuing, undergraduate students pursuing majors within the Raj Soin College of Business.

JoAnn Self Memorial Scholarship—Candidates may be either graduate or undergraduate students in good academic standing as determined by Wright State University.

Shumsky Enterprises Scholarship—For juniors or seniors majoring in marketing.

Brian Skelton Scholarship for Business and Communications—For a Wright State University student majoring in either communications in the College of Liberal Arts or in a business field within the Raj Soin College of Business.

Barbara K. Stickney Scholarship and Professor Frank A. Stickney Scholarships—For junior and senior management majors.

Student Audit Program Scholarship (Department of Accountancy)— For accountancy majors who have clearly demonstrated an interest in pursuing a career in internal auditing and are seeking professional certification.

Sharon K. Sutton Memorial Scholarship (Jerome P. Sutton)—For a non-traditional female student who has made consistent progress toward a bachelor’s degree for at least two consecutive quarters prior to selection. Recipients must demonstrate financial need and have a 3.0 or higher cumulative grade point average.

Sweeney Family Scholarship—For seniors enrolled in studies within the Department of Finance and Financial Services at Wright State University.

Thein Financial Group Award—For Wright State University finance and financial services majors who are committed to a career in financial planning and expect to take the Certified Financial Planner exam (CFP)  following graduation. There will be two awards of $1,000 each year to help cover the registration fee and books for the CFP review course plus the registration fee for the CFP exam.

Thomas D. Weeda Memorial Scholarship—For students who have declared accountancy as their major, and have a grade point average of 3.0, documented financial need, good academic standing at Wright State University, and met the requirements for admission into the Raj Soin College of Business.

WSU Finance Club Scholarship—Candidates must be full- or part-time continuing students who are members of the Finance Club and in good academic standing as determined by Wright State University.

YES Scholarship—Recipients may be incoming freshman or transfer students but no more than five years may lapse between a recipient being named and that recipient’s receipt of funds.