Yes. The scholarships listed on this page are for current real estate students. If you have enrolled in the MSRE program and are an incoming student, you can find more information on prospective student scholarships on the One Stop page.

Internal scholarships are those that are administered by the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for real estate and are guaranteed to be given to a USD student. External scholarships are those that are administered by outside organizations where students will be competing with other schools outside of USD.

Congratulations! Once you have been notified of your scholarship award, the BMC will work with the Office of Financial Aid to process your award through your student account. Scholalrship payments are made in a priority system in the following order: 1) If you have a student loan, the award will be used to pay down your student loan balance. 2) If you do not have a student loan, but do have an outstanding balance with the university, your award will pay down your university balance. 3) If you do not have a student loan or an outstanding balance with the university, you will be reimburesed via check.

Once you have been notified that you are a scholarship recipient, the BMC works hand in hand with the Office of Financial aid to submit all necessary documents to process your award. Fall awards are typically disbursed in December and Spring awards are typically disbursed in April. For more specific information, you can always contact: joebertocchini@sandiego.edu for more information.

When a college or scholarship requires you to show “demonstrated need” for financial aid, all they mean is that your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) does not meet the Cost of Attendance (CoA). This makes demonstrated need a fluid figure. Income changes, your year in school, how many people there are in your family, and whether or not you have siblings in college can affect this number. One way to think about it is this: If your EFC is $15,000 per year, and your CoA for a particular school is $14,000, you do not have demonstrated need. But if you take that EFC of $15,000 per year and apply it to a school with a CoA of $40,000, you now have a demonstrated need of $25,000. This means that the cost of the schools you are looking into affect your demonstrated need.