UWM Retention Grant

The UWM Retention Grant is awarded to select undergraduate students to help them complete a bachelor's degree by removing financial barriers to registration. UWM recognizes that students may sometimes be unable to pay their tuition, fees, and other university charges. Students with outstanding bills of $1500 or greater are restricted from registering for classes for future terms. Retention grants are one-time awards designed to help students pay down a bill, thereby removing a hold from the Office of Student Accounts and allowing them to register for classes for the upcoming term and remain enrolled. Retention grants are not intended to be a long-term solution to funding one's education or for emergency purposes such as car repairs, food, or other personal and non-university expenses. Incoming first-year and transfer students and students in their first semester at UWM are not eligible for this grant. Priority consideration is granted to eligible students who file the FAFSA, submit the Panther Scholarship Portal General Application, and have exhausted all other aid types, including federal direct loans.