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Save on Your Advanced Degree From UMKC

UMKC seniors receive $1,000 toward select UMKC master’s and doctoral programs with the new Roo Graduate Scholarship.

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We're offering a special incentive for UMKC seniors who continue on to an eligible graduate program at UMKC in Fall 2026 or Spring 2027.

Continue Your Academic Career at UMKC

The Graduate Roo Scholarship automatically provides $1,000 to UMKC seniors who have been accepted to an eligible master's or doctoral program for upcoming Fall or Spring entry at UMKC. Accepted students will receive $500 per semester for their first two semesters.

Eligible Graduate Programs

Graduate Programs notated with an asterisk (*) below have no set application deadlines.

Henry W. Bloch School of Management

  • Accounting MS*
  • Business Administration MBA
  • Entrepreneurial Real Estate MS*
  • Finance MS*
  • Public Administration MPA

Conservatory

  • Conducting MM
  • Conducting MM with Instrument
  • Conducting MM with Voice
  • Music Composition MM
  • Music Education MME
  • Music MA
  • Music MA with Jazz Concentration
  • Music MA with Music Therapy Emphasis
  • Music Performance MM
  • Music Performance MM with Pedagogy Emphasis
  • Music Theory MM
  • Musicology MM
  • Music MA with Instrument
  • Music MA with Keyboard
  • Music MA with Voice
  • Music Performance MM with Instrument
  • Music Performance MM with Keyboard
  • Music Performance MM with Voice
  • Conducting DMA
  • Music Composition DMA
  • Music Performance DMA
  • Conducting DMA with Instrument
  • Conducting DMA with Voice
  • Music Performance DMA with Instrument
  • Music Performance DMA with Keyboard
  • Music Performance DMA with Voice
  • Music Artist's Certificate
  • Music Performer's Certificate
  • Theatre: Design and Technology MFA

School of Dentistry

  • Oral and Craniofacial Sciences MS

School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences

  • Curriculum and Instruction MA*
  • Curriculum and Instruction EdS*
  • Educational Administration EdS
  • Language and Literacy EdS*
  • Counseling MA
  • Educational Administration MA
  • Social Work MSW
  • Teaching MA*

School of Graduate Studies

  • College Teaching and Career Preparation CT
  • Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Leadership CT
  • Interdisciplinary Studies PhD

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Language and Literacy MA*
  • Creative Writing and Media Arts MFA
  • Criminal Justice and Criminology MS*
  • Economics MA*
  • English MA
  • History MA*
  • Romance Language and Literature MA

School of Law

  • General LLM
  • Taxation LLM*

School of Medicine

  • Anesthesia MS
  • Bioinformatics MS*
  • Physician Assistant MMS
  • Health Professions Education MHPE*

School of Nursing and Health Studies

  • Nursing MSN

School of Pharmacy

  • Pharmacy PharmD

School of Science and Engineering

  • Biology MA
  • Biomedical Engineering MS*
  • Cell and Molecular Biology MS*
  • Chemistry MS*
  • Civil Engineering MS*
  • Computer Science MS*
  • Data Science MS*
  • Electrical Engineering MS*
  • Environmental and Urban Geosciences MS
  • Mathematics MS*
  • Mechanical Engineering MS*
  • Physics MS*
  • Statistics MS*

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