Engineer Scholarship Program

VDOT is making an offer you can't pass up! VDOT offers scholarships to civil engineering majors each year. If you are awarded one of them, you can gain valuable experience while earning scholarship money.

The scholarship money is worth $3,500 per semester or $7,000 per year, will a llow you to focus more on your studies. In addition, VDOT will give you a good paying job during the summer.

The experience will help you in your studies as well as prepare you for your future career goals. You will be assigned a VDOT mentor who will help guide you in your work. With the experiences you will be more qualified for a job at VDOT upon graduation.

How the program works: A scholarship stipend of $7,000 per year ($3,500 each semester) is available to rising juniors and seniors. Summer employment, under the supervision of your VDOT-designated mentor, begins the summer before your first scholarship award.

If qualified, you may gain full-time employment as an associate engineer at a VDOT location upon graduation.

Repay your scholarship stipend by working for VDOT upon graduation for six months of service for each semester of scholarship stipend received.

You are eligible to apply if you:

• Major in civil engineering
• Maintain a 2.5 grade point average or above
• Currently are a rising junior or senior
• Maintain Virginia residency or attend a Virginia school