If you’re in college and utilizing a HOPE Scholarship, you can take advantage of the extended eligibility and use your scholarship for a total of five years. This means if you complete your undergraduate degree in less than five years, you can start on your master’s degree and apply HOPE funds to the portion of your graduate degree that can be completed within the five-year window.
In many cases, you’d be saving up to 50 percent or more on a master’s degree at Trevecca, depending on the length and cost of the program and the time remaining on your HOPE Scholarship.
To receive this benefit, the first step is to continually renew and use your HOPE funds during every semester of college. If you allow the scholarship to lapse at any point, state regulations stipulate that you can't use it anymore––or apply it to a graduate degree.