UCC Financial Aid
Educational benefits and services to students may be awarded as grants, bursaries, tuition credit, student exchange facilities, discounts, referral programs, sticker benefits, UCC financial aid and scholarships, waivers, work-and-study programs, or tuition financing partnerships. These benefits may also be awarded as cash payouts. Both new and returning students may receive more than one financial promotion per program.
Scholarships and Awards
In addition to UCC-sponsored scholarships, external scholarship opportunities tenable at UCC are available from institutions such as Ministry of Education Grants and Digicel. UCC makes every effort to inform students about these opportunities via email, website updates, and bulletin board notices across all campuses.
Take a moment to explore the scholarships offered at the University of the Commonwealth (UCC)—this could be your lucky day! Scholarships are open to Jamaican students in any field of study offered locally by UCC. Each scholarship has specific eligibility criteria, and applicants must have received an acceptance letter from the UCC Registrar’s Office before submitting a scholarship application.
See below the steps to complete the UCC Financial Aid and Scholarship Application process:
- Scholarship Application Form
- Official Document Request Form
Purpose: The purpose of the data is to correctly process an official status letter, transcript for active or inactive students or graduates to include but not limited to research, communication and data analysis. - Formal Documentation Request (Statement of Accounts)
Purpose: The information from the form is used for gathering documents from the respective department.
| UCC Foundation Scholarship | Value |
|---|
| UCC Foundation Scholarship | Value |
|---|---|
| AIR/Miracle Club Scholarship | 65-85% |
| Dr. Rickert Allen Memorial Scholarship | $600,000 JMD |
| First Generation Scholarship | $115,000 JMD |
| Founders’ Day Scholarship | $200,000 JMD* |
| Helping Hand Scholarship | $50,000 JMD |
| Janet Davis Lindsay Memorial Scholarship | Varies |
| Pathfinders Scholarship | $100,000 JMD |
| The Geraldine Adams’ Hope Scholarship | $150,000 JMD |
| Trailblazers Scholarship | $100,000 JMD |
| UCC Alumni Association Scholarship | $50,000 JMD |
| UCC Kiwanis Scholarship | $456,000 JMD |
| Winston I. Adams Scholarship | $235,000 JMD |
| For inquiries and to send scholarship documents, please contact us: Scholarships Department of Student Affairs University of the Commonwealth Caribbean 17 Worthington Avenue, Kingston 5, Jamaica W.I.\R259357222\ Telephone #: (876) 906-3000, Extension: 3912 or 4005 Email: [email protected] |
The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) is registered with and recognised by the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ), the official accreditation body for tertiary education in Jamaica, as a University. The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean has since achieved institutional accreditation by the UCJ.
This positions the UCC as one of only six institutions, of the eighty public & private tertiary institutions that have been registered by the UCJ, to have achieved this significant & decisive accreditation status.
UCC is also registered by the Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission, JTEC, the official GOJ regulatory body, as a Teaching University.
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