Career and Technical Scholarship Fund
The Career and Technical Scholarship Fund will help build a work force with the skills Texas employers need now and in the future.
Grant Disbursements
As of July 29th, 2010, the Comptroller awarded $5 million in tuition grants from the Career and Technical Scholarship Fund to 54 Texas community colleges and public technical institutes.
Recipient schools will award scholarships to their students who meet the eligibility requirements.
The amount of JET scholarship funds available annually to each public community college or public technical institute is determined by a formula established by the Comptroller allocating 60 percent of the funds to certificate programs and 40 percent to associate degrees. This year, each college received a proportionate share of the funding based on the number of degrees awarded in 2007-08.
- Alamo Community College District
- Alvin Community College
- Amarillo College
- Angelina College
- Austin Community College
- Blinn College
- Brazosport College
- Central Texas College District
- Cisco College
- Clarendon College
- Coastal Bend College
- College of the Mainland
- Collin County Community College
- Dallas County Community College District
- Del Mar College
- El Paso Community College District
- Frank Phillips College
- Galveston College
- Grayson County College
- Hill College
- Houston Community College System
- Howard College
- Kilgore College
- Lamar Institute of Technology
- Lamar State College - Orange
- Lamar State College - Port Arthur
- Laredo Community College
- Lee College
- Lone Star College System
- McLennan Community College
- Midland College
- Navarro College
- North Central Texas College
- Northeast Texas Community College
- Odessa College
- Panola College
- Paris Junior College
- Ranger College
- San Jacinto Community College District
- South Plains College
- South Texas College
- Southwest Texas Junior College
- Tarrant County College District
- Temple College
- Texarkana College
- Texas Southmost College
- Texas State Technical Colleges
- The Victoria College
- Trinity Valley Community College
- Tyler Junior College
- Vernon College
- Weatherford College
- Western Texas College
- Wharton County Junior College
Fund Overview
Fund Purpose: Provide tuition grants to eligible Texas community colleges or public technical institutes to award scholarships to students enrolled in a training program for high-demand occupations, such as engineering technology, welding, computer support, and many others.
Budget Allocation: $2.5 million annually to disburse to students in fiscal 2010 and 2011. The amount of JET Scholarship funds available to each public community college or public technical institute is determined by a formula established by the Comptroller.
View FY 2010 JET Scholarship Formula and Allocation for more details.
Who Can Apply: Texas community colleges or public technical institutes (see application instructions for further details).
The need for the Career and Technical Scholarship Fund arises from increasing costs at two-year and four-year institutions. According to the Texas Comptroller’s 2008 Texas Works report, college costs have risen at rates surpassing both general inflation and the rise in personal income.
Scholarship Requirements
Student Eligibility: Scholarships may only be awarded to students seeking professional registration, certification or licensure in high-demand occupations, where a certificate or an associate degree is a basic prerequisite for such registration, certification or licensure.
Students who are awarded Career and Technical Scholarship Fund scholarships must be:
- permanent legal residents of the United States;
- able to demonstrate financial need; and
- enrolled in a training program leading to high-demand occupations.