Intensive English Center

Refer-a-Friend Scholarship

SCSU students and alumni

Refer-a-Friend Scholarship Program

If you are a St. Cloud State University student or alum your friends can earn $500 scholarship when they enroll full-time to the Intensive English Center (IEC)!

How it Works

Share IEC with a friend

Tell your friend about St. Cloud State's Intensive English Center and why it's a great place to build language skills and prepare for academic success.

Your friend applies and submits referral

When your friend applies to the program, they must include your full name on the online application and you must fill out and submit the referral form. Referrals must be submitted during the application.

Fill Out a Referral Form

IEC verifies eligibility

If your friend is a new applicant, enrolls as a full‑time IEC student, they will receive $500 (subject to policies and limits).

Eligibility and Rules

SCSU Students and Alumni (Referrers)

You must be a undergraduate student, graduate student, or alumni at St. Cloud Cloud State University.
Faculty, staff, and non-community members are not eligible as referrers.
You may submit multiple referrals.
You complete the referral form verifying the referral to the program.
Referrers do not receive scholarship funds in this program.

New IEC Students (Referred)

You must be a new prospect to SCSU. If any part of your application or documentation was submitted before you indicate the referral, or if you have a deferred application prior to indicating the referral, you are not a new prospect.
You will receive $500 only if you register and maintain full‑time enrollment as an IEC student at St. Cloud State University past the add/drop period.
Each referred student is eligible for one $500 scholarship regardless of how many individuals refer them.
If you are working with an SCSU-contracted agent, you are not eligible for the scholarship.
You must submit the referral during your application and include the full name of the student who referred you to us under the "How did you hear about us?" section.

Frequently Asked Questions

"New Prospect" means the student has not contacted SCSU previously. It means the student has not applied previously. It means the student and has not sent documents previously. Also, they do not have a deferred application prior to sending us a referral request.

Using the online IEC application, write the full-name of the current IEC student who referred you to our program under the "How did you hear about us?" section. The referrer must complete the referral form.

Yes. Multiple referrals are allowed. Each eligible, enrolling new IEC student (referred) may receive one $500 scholarship in their first semester.

Only the new full‑time IEC student (referred) receives $500 as a scholarship (applied to the first IEC semester after enrollment and verification). The referrer does not receive funds in this scholarship.

No. If the referred student is working with an SCSU-contracted agent, they are not eligible.

Notice

St. Cloud State University reserves the right to interpret, modify, or discontinue this scholarship at any time. Awards are subject to verification of eligibility, enrollment, and university policies. This scholarship does not imply admission to SCSU or the IEC. This scholarship cannot be used to meet the financial requirements for the Form I-20.

Refer-a-Friend Scholarship