The SVA Financial Aid office is open from 9-5 Mon-Friday and you don’t need an appointment to discuss your financial aid options with an advisor. For more information visit www.sva.edu/fa

Department Scholarships

The SocDoc department gives scholarships in the second semester of the program to help fund thesis film projects. These are merit based scholarships based on work done in the first semester and faculty recommendations.

Work Study

The SocDoc department participates in the federal work study program and there are work study opportunities in the department and elsewhere at SVA. You must apply and be approved by the Financial Aid department before being considered in the department.

Alumni Scholarships

The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts provides a wide variety scholarships and awards to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in all majors offered by the College. Because SVA covers all overhead expenses for The Alumni Society, 100 percent of any donation to the Society goes directly to one of the scholarship funds. Read more…

SVA Matching Outside Scholarships

SVA matching scholarship is available to full- and part-time graduate students. SVA will match 25% of any outside scholarship, up to $2500 that a student obtains for enrollment at SVA.

Documentary Educational Resources

DER’s mission is to cultivate community engagement with the peoples and cultures of the world in which we live through media that is both entertaining and educational.

Foundation Center

Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.

Art Deadlines List

A free subscriber list to contests, grants, scholarships, fellowships, jobs, and internships in arts and design.

College Answer

The search engine on this site, courtesy of Sallie Mae, helps students create a customized list of scholarship leads.

College Board

A tool that offers advice about scholarship planning, research and searching.

College Gold

A step-by-step guide to paying for college with useful tools including loan and debt calculators, savings plan designer, EFC worksheets, downloads of tax benefits and more.

CollegeNET

Search for scholarships by keywords or profiles.

FastWeb

A personalized search engine that compares student backgrounds with a database of over 1.5 million scholarships. Updated daily and allows online applications for many awards.

FinAid

Informative, objective, and straight-forward resource for student financial aid information, advice and tools.

The Grant Training Center

A compilation of grant information links students to funding sources ranging from federal and private foundations in the United States to international grant providers.

Scholarships.com

Advice on graduate school scholarships, research grants, employer sponsorships, and more.

Donate to the MFA SocDoc Scholarship Fund - 

We know that an MFA program is a costly endeavor and we are constantly trying to find more grants and scholarships for our students and to actively build our department scholarship fund.

In addition to a tax deduction when you donate to our SocDoc scholarship fund you are also eligible for some great perks – use of our 49 seat HD theater for screenings, a wine and cheese reception and more!

If you are interested in donating to our scholarships fund please contact Niki Bhattacharya, Director of Operations, at mbhattacharya@sva.edu or call 212-592-2919.

100% of the funds received will go towards MFA SocDoc student scholarships.