JBU Awards Seven Full-Tuition Presidential Scholarships
SILOAM SPRINGS, Arkansas (Feb. 10, 2025) – John Brown University awarded the final four Presidential Scholarships on Feb. 5 to Abby Irwin from St. Louis, Missouri; Jenna Perea from Midland, Texas; Caia Underwood from Pleasant Hill, Missouri; and María Paz I Hernández Gómez (Gómez).
Each year, JBU hosts a Scholarship Competition in the fall and spring, inviting prospective students to participate based on their academic performance. The competition includes rigorous interviews conducted by various faculty and staff.
From the two weekends, JBU awarded Presidential Scholarships to seven students who demonstrated great academic achievement as well as social and spiritual maturity. The scholarship is valued at $120,000, awarded over four years.
The three Presidential Scholarship winners announced in the fall were Emerson Bailey from Little Rock, Arkansas; Micah Baggett from Houston, Texas; and Elijah Strait from Laurens, South Carolina.
JBU also awarded more than $4 million in Chancellor's Scholarships to some of the students who participated in the competition.
For more information on scholarships at JBU, please visit jbu.edu/scholarships.
John Brown University is a leading private Christian university, training students to honor God and serve others since 1919. Arkansas’ top-ranked university (The Wall Street Journal) and top-ranked regional university (U.S. News), JBU enrolls more than 2,200 students from 37 states and 42 countries in its traditional undergraduate, graduate, online and concurrent education programs. JBU offers over 50 undergraduate majors, with top programs including nursing, psychology, business, computer science, construction management, graphic design, family and human services, and engineering. Eighteen graduate degrees are available in business, counseling, cybersecurity, and education.
