TEXAS Grant Program
Offered by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and participating Texas universities
About this scholarship
The Toward EXcellence, Access, and Success Grant is Texas’s principal need-based grant for residents pursuing a first bachelor’s degree at a participating public university or health-related institution. Students apply through the FAFSA or, when federal-aid rules prevent FAFSA use, the TASFA; the college financial-aid office confirms eligibility and issues awards from its state allocation. The January 15 priority deadline helps institutions rank similarly situated applicants, but it does not guarantee funding or automatically exclude later applications. For 2026–27, a university may award up to $5,399 per semester and as much as $16,197 across fall, spring, and summer, although the state still encourages a $2,500-per-semester target. Initial recipients must be Texas residents with financial need, enroll at least three-quarter time, have no bachelor’s degree, and qualify through an approved pathway. Those pathways include recent graduation from a Texas public, private, or home school; transfer after receiving TEOG and completing at least 24 Texas college credits with a 2.5 GPA; recent completion of a Texas associate degree; or timely college entry after qualifying military service. Renewal requires continued financial need, three-quarter-time bachelor’s enrollment, satisfactory progress, and no simultaneous TEOG. After the second year, students normally complete 24 annual credits and maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA.
Eligibility
- Be classified as a Texas resident by the participating institution
- Complete the FAFSA or, if ineligible for federal aid, the TASFA
- Demonstrate financial need and meet Selective Service statement requirements or an exemption
- Enroll at least three-quarter time in a bachelor’s degree program at an eligible institution
- Not already hold a bachelor’s degree
- Qualify through the recent Texas high-school/home-school, TEOG transfer, recent associate-degree, or honorable military discharge pathway
- For the high-school pathway, enroll within 16 months and have no more than 30 non-dual-credit attempted hours
- For renewal, continue to show need, meet satisfactory academic progress, and not receive TEOG concurrently