This program began in 1948, and the KYTC has awarded nearly 1,700 scholarships, amounting to over $12 million in scholarships since its beginning.  We now have 80 scholarship openings each year that are filled with returning students and new students.  This scholarship can be worth up to $44.000!

 

Scholarship Qualifications
All scholarship recipients must be graduates of an accredited Kentucky high school, or high school graduates who are residents of Kentucky, and must meet the admission requirements of the University and its respective  engineering department. All applicants must have successfully completed the high school pre-college curriculum. It is anticipated that successful applicants for scholarships will have qualifications considerably higher than the minimum required for acceptance into the Department of Engineering.

Students who have completed at least 10 semester hours of acceptable work in mathematics, physics, and chemistry at another school are considered to be transfer students and are evaluated under different criteria. Such students should contact the Department of Engineering directly for further information on requirements for admission to the program.  

 

Method of Selection
Selection will be made on a statewide, competitive basis. Applicants are selected by the scholarship committee at the universities on the basis of scholastic standings and, recommendations and in the case of Freshman, the American College Test (ACT) score. A Minimum composite ACT score of 24 is required.

 

Agreement with the Transportation Cabinet
The scholarship student must agree by contract, with the approval of parent or guardian when applicant is under twenty-one years of age, to work full time for the Cabinet immediately after graduation. One year of employment is required for each school year on scholarship. Location of employment will be based upon the Cabinet’s needs at the time of the student’s graduation. The Transportation Cabinet may provide summer employment for scholarship students as long as they make reasonable progress in their academic work and prove satisfactory in summer work.

 

Conditions of Scholarship
Students awarded scholarships are expected to make normal progress toward a degree. A student who fails to make normal progress toward a degree, does not maintain satisfactory academic standards, or does not perform satisfactory in their summer work assignment may be dropped from the scholarship program; but, may reapply when deficiencies are corrected. Upon meeting the above conditions, the scholarship is automatically renewed each year for students who achieve at least a 2.500 GPA, either semester or cumulative, on a 4.000 scale. Grade point averages are cumulative for all credit hours attempted and applicable to the universities repective civil engineering degree. In addition, successful completion of 30 hours or more of courses is required each year.

Scholarship students will receive a stipend each semester while in school. Freshmen and sophomores will receive a gross amount of $5,300 each semester and juniors and seniors will receive a gross amount of $5,700 each semester. Stipend payments are made directly to the students. Students are then responsible for paying their fees at the university. Stipends are issued around February 1st and October 1st each year.  The summer employment salary will be commensurate with employees who have similar qualifications and experience.  Both summer salary and stipends are considered a wage and are subject to normal payroll deductions.

 

Application for a Transportation Scholarship
Freshmen applicants must include this completed application, submit a copy of their official high school transcript, a copy of their official ACT score report (if the ACT score is not shown on the transcript) two recommendations (one from a guidance counselor or principal and one from a mathematics teacher who is acquainted with the students’s scholastic achievements).

 

University sophomore and junior applicants must attach a completed scholarship application, their official college transcript; and two recommendations from college instructors. A short essay is also required.

 

This application should be returned by March 1st to: 

Do not return the scholarship application to the Admissions Office with the application for admission to the University.  Applications that are incomplete, without the required supporting materials, or received after March 1st will not be considered.

 

Applying for Admission to the University
All students who plan to begin study during the fall semester should return all application forms and supporting documents for admission to the University to the Admissions Office no later than March 1. The student should indicate on the application that he/she is applying for admission at UK, UL, WKU,or KSU. It is essential that the ACT be taken before application is made. Send requests for application to:

Applications for admission to the University should be returned to the Admissions Office of the selected University  and not to the College of Engineering. On-campus students should obtain applications for transfer to the College of Engineering from the Engineering College Student Records Office.

Scholarship students may attend a KCTCS college in their area, for up to 2 years, before transferring to the University. If you choose to do so, contact their admissions office for further information. Please see their individual websites from this website: www.kctcs.edu/student/collegedistricts.htm. This must also be done before March 1st.

The Transportation Cabinet may provide summer employment at the following rates to scholarship students as long as reasonable progress is made in academic work and you prove satisfactory in your job performance.

 

$5,300/semester for Freshmen and Sophmores
$5,700/semester for Juniors and Seniors

4-5 Year Scholarship

Job placement after Graduation

A Rewarding and Lucrative Career

 

The Cabinet agrees to aid the Conditional Employee in continuing the aforementioned academic training for the following amount of time:

 

 

It is expressly understood that a request for 2 additional checks for 1 year can only be used for pursuing a MSCE at the University of Kentucky or a MSCE at the University of Louisville.  

 

 

For KSU students, a 5 year scholarship is used to complete the dual degree program through Kentucky State University (BA in Applied Math) and a BSCE at the University of Kentucky.