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Scholarships

UCCI as all colleges and universities offer financial aid. Financial aid helps students and their families by covering education expenses, such as tuition and fees, books and supplies.

What are scholarships?

It’s a type of financial aid in out university.
The amount of financial aid one can receive is dependent
on a few factors:

  • Financial situation
  • Cost of tuition
  • Your academic performance
  • Your year in school and your enrolment status.
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Types of Financial Aid

There are two main types of scholarships that students may be eligible for: merit-based scholarships or needs-based scholarships.

Both college grants and scholarships are forms of financial aid that students are not required to pay back. Both may require that a student maintain a certain GPA to receive the money each year (if the aid is renewable), and may require an annual application.

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Merit-based scholarships

Award students for outstanding credentials. They award high-achieving students who excel in academics, arts and athletics. They do not take into account a student’s financial situation.

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Needs-based scholarships 

Award students who have a financial need. Students qualify for needs-based scholarships based on their family’s income and financial constraints.

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Scholarships opportunities

The University College of the Cayman Islands is proud to offer a diverse range of scholarship opportunities
to support our students' academic aspirations.
Applications are accepted throughout the year, with deadlines falling four weeks before the start of each semester.

Humanities and Arts Scholarships

Carol Winker Memorial Scholarship

Provided by Compass Media/Cayman Compass

  1. Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year
  2. Eligibility Criteria
    • New or current student
    • Caymanian status
    • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
    • Pursuing journalism, photogrphy, graphic design/creative writing

Mrs. Joyce Hylton Scholarship

Provided by Daniel Simmons Estate

  1. Award Amount: KYD 114,999.40 over seven (7) years
  2. Eligibility Criteria
    • New or current student
    • Caymanian status (or Permanent Resident if no Caymanians qualify)
    • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
    • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's in social work
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Peter N. Thomson Scholarship

  1. Award Amount: KYD 25,000 per year
  2. Eligibility Criteria
    • New or current student
    • Caymanian status
    • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
    • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's in Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Social Sciences
    • Available to 10 students each year
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STEM & Health Scholarships

Health City Cayman STEM Grant Programme

  1. Award Amount: KYD 10,000 per year
  2. Eligibility Criteria
    • New or current student
    • Caymanian status
    • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
    • Participate in an interview process
    • Pursuing any STEM degrees

Note: Multiple students may be awarded this grant each year based on financial need.

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Helen Heaver Wren Scholarship

  1. Award Amount: KYD 3,500 per year
  2. Eligibility Criteria
    • New or current student
    • Caymanian status
    • Must maintain 3.0 GPA
    • Pursuing nursing

Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Construction or ICT
  • Must participate in two Rotary community events
  • Must attend one Rotary meeting
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Scholarships

ABM Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Studying a Hospitality Programme
  • Maintain minimum 2.0 GPA

Cayman Mechanical Company Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Pursuing a TVET degree or secobdarily a stem or buiness progreamm
  • Maintain minimum 2.5 GPA
  • Includes paid internship at Cayman Mechanical Company Ltd.
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Consolidated Water Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing an NCCER Program
  • Includes paid internships at Cayman Water
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Polar Bear Air Conditioning Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status or permanent resident
  • Minimum 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Level 1-3
  • Must submit 750-word essay
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Warren Greene Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing Construction Technology/TVET Programme
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Michael Godfrey Vocational Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 6,140 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain a 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing Construction Technology/TVET Programmes Level 1 & 2 programme


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Royal Bank of Canada Scholarship

Award amount KYD 20,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian
  • Must maintain a 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing an Associate or TVET degree
  • Available to eight students per year
  • Internship opportunities available

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Calypso Grill Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum of 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Hospitality
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Casa 43 Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum of 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Hospitality
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Celebrations Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum 2.5 GPA to be eligible
  • Pursing Hospitality Management/ Event Management / Wedding Planning
  • 3 – 6 Months Paid Internship Opportunity

Eats Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum of 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Hospitality
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Lloyds Smokehouse Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 3,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum of 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing Hospitality degree
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General Scholarships

Artex Risk Solutions Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:New or current student

  • Caymanian status
  • Maintain 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's degree
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Browns Holding Ltd T/A Browns Esso Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing any undergraduate, post graduate, or certificate programme
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CIBC Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 15,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's degree
  • Includes Internship opportunities at CIBC
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The Cleaning Connection Ltd Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 3,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing any degree
  • Must provide notarised proof of status
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Digicel Cayman Ltd Scholarships

Award Amount: KYD 10,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current full-time student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's degree
  • Open to potential internship opportunities
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Gallagher Scholarship Programme

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's degree
  • Open to internship opportunity at Gallagher
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Sterling Security Solutions Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor's degree
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Progressive Distributors Scholarship

Award amount KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Pursuing any undergraduate, postgraduate, or certificate programme
  • Must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5
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Richard Adam Oakley Scholarship

Award amount KYD 3,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain a 2.5 GPA
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelors degree
  • Provide a notarised proof of status
  • Recipients may receive the grant in multiple years, if they continue to meet the criteria

Cayman Dispatch Services LTD Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New Or Current Student
  • Caymanian status
  • Pursuing An Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Certificate in Any Discipline
    Or
    UCCI Student Seeking Supplementary Grant to Transfer to an Affiated University
  • Must Maintain A 2.0 GPA
  • Needs Based Scholarship/ Grant
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Greenlight Reinsurance

Award Amount: KYD 1,100 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing any degree Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Certificate Programme
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Harmonic Fund Services

Award Amount: KYD 15,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing any degree Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Certificate Programme

MAB LTD T/A MIKE’S ESSO

Award Amount: KYD 5,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain 2.0 GPA
  • Pursuing any degree Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Certificate Programme
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Royal Bank of Canada (Cayman) Ltd

Award Amount: KYD 20,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Pursuing an Associate or TVET degree
  • Must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5
  • Available to eight students per year
  • Internship opportunities available
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Olivier Thiery Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 3,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5 each term
  • Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline

Richard Adam Oakley Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 3,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor’s degree
  • Must provide notarised proof of status

Compass Media / Cayman Compass Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 2,500 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian status
  • Minimum 2.0 GPA to be eligible
  • Pursing journalism / photography/ graphic design / creative writing

Joyce Hylton Memorial Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 13,124.40 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • Caymanian, or permanent resident if no Caymanians qualify
  • Must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5 to be eligible
  • Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work
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Peter N. Thomson Scholarship

Award Amount: KYD 25,000 per year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • New or current student
  • No immigration status required
  • Must maintain a 2.25 GPA for Associate degrees and a 2.5 GPA for Bachelor’s degrees
  • Pursuing any Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts, Sciences, or Social Sciences
  • Available to up to 10 students each year
  • Needs-based award of up to KYD $2,500 per student, per year
  • Associate students may receive the scholarship for up to 2 years;
    Bachelor’s students may receive it for up to 4 years, pending GPA compliance
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