National Merit Scholarship Program 2024

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Eligibility Verification
Requirements
College enrollment
Public Announcements for the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program

By Vipul Jain

22 Nov, 2024

Scholarship

National Merit Scholarship Program 2024

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an American scholarship competition for recognition and scholarships. The program is administered by the National School Science Center (NMSC), a private non-profit organization based in Evanston, Illinois. This program starts in the year 1955.

Every year, NMSC conducts a competition for all eligible students. Until 2015, NMSC also operated the National Merit Scholarship Program for African American students only.

Eligibility Verification

The NMSC portion of the PSAT/NMSQT score report shows the student's answers to the questions required for admission and whether the student's selection score qualifies for the National Scholarship Program. Students are encouraged to review this section of their score report and contact NMSC immediately if answers to admissions questions are incorrect or changed.

Requirements

To be eligible for university-sponsored awards, winners must meet all three of the following criteria. Finalists:

You must have notified NMSC that the sponsoring university was their first choice;
You must be registered to become a member of the institution;
You must not have received another national scholarship.

College enrollment

According to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's 2018-19 Annual Report, the following is a list of universities that have named more than 100 National Merit Scholars for the entering class of 2019.

Rank	University	Total scholars (including college-sponsored)	College- sponsored only
1	University of Florida	270	231
2	University of Southern California	265	206
3	University of AlabamaÂ (Tuscaloosa)	258	210
4	Northwestern University	244	188
5	University of Chicago	233	174
6	Vanderbilt University	222	168
7	Harvard University	207	0
8	University of Texas at Dallas	200	173
9	Texas A&M University, College Station	188	144
10	Northeastern University	155	133
11	Yale University	140	0
12	Arizona State University	136	113
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	136	0
14	University of California, Berkeley	132	0
15	University of Pennsylvania	126	0
16	Stanford University	124	0
17	Duke University	119	0
18	Purdue UniversityÂ (West Lafayette)	116	101
19	Princeton University	114	0
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	107	95