Removing Barriers. Supporting Success.
Saint Anselm College has a long history of making a distinctive liberal arts education accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. We are committed to ensuring that all students—regardless of their financial background—can access the full range of academic, co-curricular, and wellness opportunities essential to a transformative college experience.
What is the Anselmian Success Grant?
The Anselmian Success Grant Fund is designed to help students overcome unexpected or unmet financial barriers that might otherwise prevent them from thriving at the College. Whether it’s covering the cost of an internship-related expense, study abroad travel, professional clothing, certification fees, or a wellness program, these grants are designed to support students holistically—academically, personally, and professionally.
The Anselmian Success Grant Fund provides small grants ranging from a few hundred dollars up to a few thousand dollars. These grants are awarded to currently enrolled undergraduate students who face financial challenges that could impact their academic progress, well-being, or participation in meaningful co-curricular experiences.
The fund is made possible through institutional support and the generosity of donors who believe in the potential of every Anselmian.
Types of Anselmian Success Grants
Anselmian Success Grant Fund
The Anselmian Success Grant Fund removes financial barriers that hinder academic progress, well-being, and access to enriching experiences. Grants support five key areas:
- Academic Needs: Help with essential expenses like computers, textbooks, or taking advantage of curricular or co-curricular opportunities that might require funds, including travel
- Degree Completion: Assistance to clear outstanding balances that will prevent them from receiving a diploma, or they do not have the funds to fully participate in Senior Days or Commencement.
- Wellness Needs: Support for urgent health and safety expenses, including food, clothing, and emergency medical or dental care.
- Emergency Transportation: Funding to cover travel during critical situations such as hospitalizations or family emergencies.
- Co-Curricular Opportunities: Aid to access internships, study abroad, leadership development, and other transformative experiences.
Financial hurdles at the end of a student’s college journey—such as an unpaid balance or costs associated with Commencement—can delay or disrupt the transition to post-graduate life. Degree Completion grants aim to reduce these final barriers and support students in successfully earning and receiving their diploma on time.
Who is Eligible?
- Applicants must be full-time undergraduate students at Saint Anselm College
- Students who demonstrate financial need and can clearly identify how the grant will support their success or persistence
- Priority is given to students with limited access to other funding sources
- Students are generally expected to take out loans as part of their educational funding
- Your previous financial aid applications, grants, and loans may be considered as part of the review
Generally, the lifetime maximum of all awards made to any one student during all combined enrollments at Saint Anselm College will not exceed $2,000. Requests concerning degree completion and internship funding are considered independently from this allotted maximum.
How to Apply
Students can apply by submitting an application that includes a description of the need, the amount requested, and how the funds will be used. Documentation or estimates may be required. Applications are reviewed on a rolling by a small committee committed to equity, discretion, and student support. Students should be aware that it may take up to 10 business days before they receive a decision. Requests for emergency funding will normally be reviewed in no more than 3 business days.