John Marshall Scholars

The John Marshall Scholars Program is an academic scholarship program that covers a majority of the cost of education for member students at Marshall University. Named to honor the Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, the program affords a rigorous academic program and provides a full tuition/fees waiver and stipend to students with a composite ACT score of 30 or higher who have been accepted to the University. Students must maintain a 3.5 GPA in order to retain their scholarship.

John Marshall Scholars complete a program of interdisciplinary honors seminars and departmental honors courses. Examples of these interdisciplinary seminars include:

  • Threads of Bale, exposing students to the literature and music of suffering in Northern Ireland and Appalachia.
  • The History of Science, exploring the nature of scientific revolutions and their impact on society
  • Global Terrorism
  • Literary Ornithology
  • Tolkien and Film
  • Writing Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Post-Colonial Theory and Literature
  • The American Constitution
  • Endangered Species: Genetics and Policy
  • The Roosevelts: The Years Before the White House
  • Tests, Tests and More Tests
  • Castro's Cuba and the American Imagination

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