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

ee also

*Society of Yeager Scholars: another scholarship at Marshall University.