NJ World Trade Center Scholarship

This scholarship benefits dependent children and surviving spouses of New Jersey residents who were killed in or who died as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

Benefits

• Recipients may attend an eligible post-secondary school in NJ or out-of-state

Eligibility

• Student must be a child or spouse of an individual who was a NJ resident on September 11, 2001 and was:
  • killed in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, or 
  • who died as a result of injuries received in the attack, or
  • who died as a result of illness caused by exposure to the attack sites, or
  • who are missing and officially presumed dead as a result of the attack 
• U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen
• Be a full-time, undergraduate student
• Eligibility is continued for eight years from the date of the child's high school graduation and eight years from the date of death for the spouse

How Do I Apply?

• Download the application from our website or call 800-792-8670
• Application deadlines:
  • Fall and Spring term - October 1 of the academic year for which aid is requested
  • Spring term only - March 1 of the academic year for which aid is requested