John Marshall Scholars
# 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
