AccountingWEB, the leading online media company for accountants, is pleased to announce the 2011 AccountingWEB Accounting Student Scholarship Program. Applications will be accepted through the deadline of March 31, 2011.

  • Participation in the scholarship program is open to U.S., Canadian, and Mexican citizens who are students attending colleges, universities and professional schools of accounting in North America.
  • Students applying for the AccountingWEB Accounting Student Scholarship must have already completed at least one semester or two trimesters of full-time college and must be declared accounting majors, effective fall 2011.
  • Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to enter.
  • The scholarship is a $1,000 one-time award, payable to the educational institution where winning students are in attendance as full-time students, have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale (or the equivalent), and who are declared accounting majors. Transcripts are required as evidence of this status.
  • Scholarship winners will be chosen based on submission and subsequent judging of a short essay not to exceed 500 words. The topic for the 2011 AccountingWEB Accounting Student Scholarship is There’s an App for That. Essays will be judged on both style and content. More details are available in the Scholarship Rules.

Winners will be selected by May 6, 2011 and notified shortly thereafter. AccountingWEB will announce the winners to the public on June 15, 2011.

Submitted by Keri Ledezma