National Service Scholarships

At Heller, our students are driven by their missions and passion for social justice and service. One in five of our American students has a background in national service: Peace Corps, AmeriCorps State and National, City Year, Teach for America, AmeriCorps Vista, and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps).

AmeriCorps Scholarships

The Heller School is pleased to offer guaranteed partial-tuition merit scholarships of at least 50% to AmeriCorps alumni admitted to one of the following Heller Degree Programs:

The scholarship amount a student is awarded will be reflected in the acceptance letter. Heller AmeriCorps scholarships exceed the match provided through the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Match Program.

The application fee will be waived for all AmeriCorps alumni.

City Year Scholarships

The Heller School is pleased to offer guaranteed partial-tuition merit scholarships of at least 50% to City Year alumni admitted to one of our master’s degree programs. The scholarship amount a student is awarded will be reflected in the acceptance letter.

The application fee will be waived for all City Year alumni.

Commonwealth Corps Scholarships

The Heller School is pleased to offer guaranteed partial-tuition merit scholarships of at least 50% to Commonwealth Corps alumni admitted to one of the following Heller Degree Programs:

The scholarship amount a student is awarded will be reflected in the acceptance letter. The application fee will be waived for all Commonwealth Corps alumni.

Peace Corps Scholarships

The Heller School is proud to offer one 100% tuition Peace Corps Fellows Scholarships to RPCV applying to the Master of Public Policy or Master of Arts in Global Sustainability programs. In addition, The Heller School is pleased to offer guaranteed partial-tuition merit scholarships of at least 60% to Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. The scholarship amount a student is awarded will be reflected in the acceptance letter.

The application fee will be waived for all RPCVs.

Meet a few of our service alumni:

Zari Havercome ’16, MBA/MA SID’22

AmeriCorps and Peace Corps

“Shirley Chisholm said, ‘Service is the rent you pay to live on earth.' I want to support communities that are disenfranchised, under-resourced, taken advantage of—the people experiencing cyclical poverty and hunger. We have come too far for people to still suffer from things they don’t have to.”

Elizabeth Nguyen, MBA/MA SID'20 (VIDEO)

Peace Corps

“There's a huge Peace Corps community here [at Heller]. If you walk anywhere on campus, you'll notice everyone is either Peace Corps or AmeriCorps or City Year, which is a really nice community to have. The fact that we are service driven is obvious in every classroom and I really love that part about Heller.”

Joel Pugh, MBA'20

AmeriCorps

“I did two terms of AmeriCorps, and I absolutely loved it. It completely changed my life,” says Pugh. “It was my first job, and I got to meet people who were different from me, which was a big deal having growing up in this very rural, shut-off part of the country. It taught me about myself, about other people, about intersectionality. That experience instilled a sense of social justice in me.”

Charlie Stoever, MBA'22

Peace Corps

“I want to empower people, especially LGBTQ folks, people of color, to dive into finance and learn about financial literacy. When COVID caused the stock market to dive, people like me who were financially literate could take advantage of lower-priced stocks, while millions were applying for unemployment.”