University of Arizona Global Wildcat Award

About this scholarship

The University of Arizona Global Wildcat Award is a merit-based scholarship for international undergraduate students. Arizona's official international admissions page states that the university offers merit-based scholarships for international students and that students are automatically considered for the Global Wildcat Award during the admission process. For first-year fall applicants, the university encourages students to apply by the Early Action deadline of November 1 to ensure priority consideration. The same page reports that 82% of admitted international students received the Global Wildcat Award, making it a high-volume scholarship compared with many flagship private-university awards. The official page does not publish a single current dollar value for every first-year award on the cost page, and the terms and conditions direct students to award-specific rules, so the amount is recorded as variable rather than guessed. Scholarship funds are applied toward tuition costs, and international applicants must still plan for tuition and fees, living expenses, health insurance, and other costs. Transfer students have a separate Transfer Student Global Wildcat Award, but this entry focuses on the broad Global Wildcat consideration described for undergraduate international applicants.

Eligibility

• Apply as an international undergraduate applicant to the University of Arizona main campus
• Complete the admission application; no separate Global Wildcat application is required
• For strongest first-year consideration, apply by the November 1 Early Action deadline
• Meet University of Arizona admission and English proficiency requirements
• Enroll in an eligible degree program and comply with the scholarship terms if awarded
• Use the award toward eligible tuition costs rather than non-tuition expenses