Become a university partner
NACME is one of the largest providers of college scholarships for high-potential students pursuing undergraduate degrees at schools of engineering. NACME manages its programs through leveraged partnerships with our university partners, encouraging them to implement programs that will increase retention-to-graduation rates.
When you become a NACME Partner Institution, your engineering students will have the opportunity to receive scholarship funding through our grant programs and other scholarships opportunities offered by our Partner and Non-Partner Corporate Sponsors. Your Scholars will also have the opportunity to apply for internships and full-time jobs after graduation with our Partner Corporate Sponsors. Your students will also have access to our C.A.S.E Academy (Career Accelerator in Science and Engineering Academy) which provides exposure to our many career focused programs intended to better equip students with the knowledge and skillsets needed post-graduation. Your university will also be able to participate in annual conferences where we discuss best practices in engineering education.
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When you give at a Leadership level you enable us to meet our most pressing needs and to fund our highest priorities. By supporting NACME with a gift of $1,000 or more, you directly ensure that we can continue to improve our research into engineering education and the engineering workforce, build on new initiatives such as pre-engineering, and most importantly, increase our ability to give more STEM education scholarships to more deserving students across the nation. Your gift makes the dreams of aspiring engineers come true.
Membership in the NACME Leadership Gift Society recognizes individual donors for their annual support. Unless you prefer to remain anonymous, your generosity will be recognized in our annual report. Our fiscal year runs from September 1 through August 31.
Partner Universities
NACME Partner Universities demonstrate their leadership by
Recruiting high-achieving students from high schools and community colleges;
Striving to improve the retention to graduation of engineering students.
Implementing admissions policies and procedures that reflect a broad approach beyond SAT/ACT scores and GPAs in evaluating student potential to succeed;
Providing programs that engage students in the engineering culture and expose them to opportunities to transform their college life into an enriching experience;
Click here to see a regional list of the institutions that NACME currently partners with.How to Become a Partner University
Academic institutions that wish to participate in the NACME Scholars program must demonstrate a commitment to student success.
Participating universities and colleges enter into a five-year partnership, which is reviewed annually to compare institutional performance against established enrollment and graduation goals. NACME expects evidence of continuous improvement toward parity. Such indicators of success would include in the aggregate rising GPAs, reduction in retention rate between NACME scholars and comparison group, and stable or decreasing time to degree.
The program was created to achieve the following goals:
Provide financial support to high-potential, engineering students who have demonstrated financial need. Leverage NACME’s partnerships with academic institutions to increase the retention-to-graduation rate of engineering students enrolled at those schools. Increase the capacity and capability of academic partner institutions to recruit, admit, retain, educate, and graduate engineering students.For more information about the NACME Scholars program or to become a partner, please email scholarships@nacme.org.Toolkit
The toolkit is a guide for universities for report submissions to NACME
Best Practices in Graduation Rates
These academic support systems are working for students across the country.