Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship
An award capped at the tuition and mandatory fees of the most expensive University System of Maryland campus — one of the more generous ceilings in this corpus, with a stated 2025-26 maximum of $13,689. It reaches a veteran in their own right at a 25% service-connected disability who has exhausted federal VA education benefits, as well as children, stepchildren and unmarried surviving spouses of members who died or are 100% permanently disabled from service, and several non-military categories. Apply to your institution's financial aid office by 15 July, not to MHEC.
Verified August 27, 2026
What this benefit is
An award capped at the tuition and mandatory fees of the most expensive University System of Maryland campus — one of the more generous ceilings in this corpus, with a stated 2025-26 maximum of $13,689. It reaches a veteran in their own right at a 25% service-connected disability who has exhausted federal VA education benefits, as well as children, stepchildren and unmarried surviving spouses of members who died or are 100% permanently disabled from service, and several non-military categories. Apply to your institution's financial aid office by 15 July, not to MHEC.
What it's worth: Up to the annual tuition and mandatory fees of the costliest USM four-year campus
- The ceiling is the equivalent annual tuition and mandatory fees of a resident undergraduate at the University System of Maryland four-year institution with the highest annual expenses — excluding University of Maryland Global Campus and University of Maryland, Baltimore.
- The stated maximum award for 2025-26 is $13,689.
- That is a ceiling rather than a guarantee; the actual award depends on the programme.
- A veteran qualifies in their OWN right with a service-connected disability of 25% or more, where they have exhausted or are no longer eligible for federal VA education benefits.
- Other categories include a child, stepchild or unmarried surviving spouse of a member who died or is 100% permanently disabled as a result of service; September 11 victim families; Vietnam POW and MIA families; and public-safety and school-employee categories.
- Applications go to your institution's financial aid office by 15 July each year. They do not go to MHEC, and sending them there loses the year.
Who is entitled to it
- It reaches a child or a spouse.
- Your own military or public safety service, or your relationship to someone who served, brings you within the programme.
- You are a Maryland resident.
- Your home is in Maryland.
Not sure whether that describes you?
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How to claim it
- 1Check the eligibility gate that actually decides this one — it is rarely the disability rating alone.
- 2Apply through the Maryland Higher Education Commission before the academic year begins.
- Form
- MHEC One-App
- File with
- the Maryland Higher Education Commission
- Documents you will need
- dd214 · va benefit summary letter
- Each term
- Claimed per academic term.
Sources
- authority · published policyMaryland Higher Education Commission — Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship
Why only one source type: The administering agency publishes the eligibility and the award on its own programme page, which is both authority and operating source.
This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.