Funding Update:
NCDMVA has shared that, due to limited funding, Spring 2026 awards for the North Carolina Scholarship for Children of Wartime Veterans will be prorated by 25% of each student’s Fall 2025 award amount. Also, the application portal for new January 2026 applicants will not open, unless additional funding is appropriated by the General Assembly. You can receive updates on applications and funding on their website.

Your enrollment datasheet will ask you if you are eligible for the North Carolina Children of Wartime Veterans (NCDMVA) Scholarship. 

If you are not eligible or have not applied, please check no. 

If you are eligible, have applied, and received an acceptance letter, check yes.

 

Eligiblity

  • The veteran must be in certain class categories: deceased, disabled, combat, or POW/MIA.
  • The veteran's criteria must have occurred during a period of war.
  • Applicant must be under the age of 25 at the time of application.
  • At time of application, applicant must be domiciled and a resident of North Carolina.
  • Veteran parent must have been a resident of NC before enlistment/commission and enlisted/commissioned out of NC OR the dependent was born in North Carolina and has been a resident of North Carolina continuously since birth (family deployments or PCSs outside of NC will make the applicant ineligible).

 

Coverage and Information

The scholarship is for eight academic semesters and the recipient has eight years to utilize the eight academic semesters. The scholarship covers full tuition and fees. There are no monthly stipends that come with this scholarship.

Because the scholarship requires us to check eligibility, it may delay other benefits that you might receive (Ch. 33 especially).

  • Due to VA regulations, we are unable to provide full coverage for Chapter 33 if you receive this scholarship. We will report your tuition and fees only as the book stipend so you can receive monthly housing payments, but we will not submit full tuition and fees.

If you receive the scholarship, it may be beneficial to save your benefits and use the scholarship first.