State Grants & Scholarships

MI Guarantee/MI Achievement Scholarship

For the 2024-25 school year, the Michigan Achievement Scholarship has been replaced with the Michigan Community College Guarantee. This applies to Community Colleges in Michigan ONLY. This means it does not matter what your high school GPA was or what your parent income is. Learn more on the MI Guarantee website.

Michigan Competitive Scholarship Program

The Michigan Competitive Scholarship Program provides tuition grants of up to $1000 per academic year. Eligibility is based on both financial need and academic achievement. Students must take the A.C.T. test no later than December of their senior year in high school, and have a copy of their SAR released to the State Scholarship Program. Students may receive up to ten full semesters of assistance, provided they renew their application each academic year. Further information may be obtained from the high school guidance office.

Michigan Tuition Incentive Program (TIP)

MICHIGAN TUITION INCENTIVE PROGRAM (TIP) 

To meet the financial eligibility requirement, a student must have (or have had) Medicaid coverage for 24 months within a 36 consecutive month period as identified by the Family Independence Agency (FIA).  This can happen as early as the sixth grade.  The Michigan Department of Treasury will send an application form to the home of each of these identified students.  The student must complete the application form and return it to Treasury before graduation from high school (or GED completion) and before their 20th birthday to activate the financial eligibility for the program.  Only then will the student receive a “confirmation letter.”  All benefits must be used within six years of high school graduation (or GED completion) or student forfeits program eligibility.

To receive Phase I benefits, the student must further demonstrate to the participating college:

• Evidence of eligibility, I.e., submit a copy of the confirmation letter to the financial aid office of the college and complete the Financial Aid Application Process to receive student aid at MCC.
• High school graduation (or GED completion) prior to age 20.
• U.S. citizenship or eligible non-citizen status, or designated “refugee”, “asylum granted”, “humanitarian parole”, “indefinite parole”, or “Cuban-Haitian entrant”status.
• Michigan residence as determined by institutional criteria.
• Initiation of benefits for enrollment at a participating college within four years of high school graduation or GED completion. Eligibility ends six years from the date of high school graduation or GED completion, effective with the class of 2010.
• Future awards are subject to availability and approved funding.
• At least half-time enrollment in a program other than theology or divinity earning less than 80 semester or 120 term credits.
• Satisfactory academic progress according to institutional policy

Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver

The Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver program was enacted by Public Act 174 of 1976, which waives the tuition costs for eligible Native Americans in public community colleges or universities within Michigan.

To be considered eligible, applicants MUST fit all 5 requirements below:

1. be a Michigan resident
2. have resided in Michigan for twelve consecutive months at the time of application;
3. attend a public institution in Michigan;
4.   be one-quarter Native American blood quantum
5. AND be an enrolled member of a U.S. federally-recognized tribe.