Baylor Baptist Missionaries' Dependent Scholarship
Offered by Baylor University
About this scholarship
Baylor University’s Baptist Missionaries’ Dependent Scholarship awards up to $5,000 per academic year to undergraduate dependents of missionaries who are actively serving, or officially retired from serving, a Baptist international mission agency. It is a distinct scholarship for missionary families rather than a generic Baptist affiliation award. Students must provide documentation showing the parent’s qualifying employment or retirement relationship with the mission agency. Baylor says the award is renewable beyond the initial year when the recipient continues full-time undergraduate enrollment and maintains a minimum 2.5 cumulative Baylor GPA. The university’s official instructions direct applicants to attach the supporting documentation to a Student Financial Services Contact Us inquiry, so that form is the direct action link used on this record. Prospective recipients must separately secure admission to Baylor. No universal deadline or guaranteed award count is stated on the current official page; students should submit current agency verification well before the semester for which support is requested and confirm processing timing with Student Financial Services. The official amount is “up to” $5,000 annually, so the final award may be lower based on Baylor’s review rather than automatically equaling the maximum.
Eligibility
- Be admitted to and enrolled full time at Baylor University as an undergraduate
- Be the dependent of a missionary actively serving or officially retired from service
- Have a parent affiliated through employment with a Baptist international mission agency
- Provide current documentation of the parent’s qualifying missionary employment or official retirement
- Submit supporting documents through Baylor Student Financial Services
- Maintain at least a 2.5 cumulative Baylor GPA for renewal