Sponsors of National Merit® Scholarships
CORPORATE SPONSORS
The corporations, company foundations, and businesses named in this list are expected to sponsor Merit Scholarship® awards in 2017
for Finalists who meet their preferential criteria (published in the 2015 Official Student Guide to the PSAT/NMSQT®). Those shown in
bold type became sponsors after the Student Guide was published; a few additional corporate organizations may make arrangements
to sponsor scholarships in 2017.
AbbVie Inc.
Acushnet Company
ADP Foundation
Advocate Medical Group
Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation
Air Products Foundation
Akzo Nobel Inc.
Albany International
The Allergan Foundation
Alliance Data Systems
Corporation
Ameren Corporation
Charitable Trust
American City Business
Journals, Inc.
American Electric Power
Company, Inc.
American Financial Group
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
The AMETEK Foundation
Anadarko Petroleum
Corporation
Aon Foundation
Apache Corporation
Archer Daniels Midland
Company
Arkema Inc. Foundation
Armstrong Flooring Foundation
Armstrong Foundation
ASC Partners, LLC
ASM Materials Education
Foundation
Astellas US LLC
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
BASF Corporation
Battelle
Bayer USA Foundation
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Trust Under The Will of
Mary E. Beyerle
Black & Veatch Corporation
BNSF Railway Foundation
The Boeing Company
BorgWarner Inc.
Brady Corporation
Branch Banking & Trust Company
Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Foundation, Inc.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc.
Brooks Brothers Group, Inc.
Bunge North America, Inc.
Bunzl USA, Inc.
CACI International Inc
California Resources Corporation
Cardinal Health Foundation
Carlisle Companies Incorporated
Carpenter Technology
Corporation
CBS Corporation
(COUNTRY Financial)
CC Services, Inc.
CDK Global, LLC
Chemtura Corporation
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Chico’s FAS, Inc.
Citizen Watch Company of
America, Inc.
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Commvault Systems, Inc.
Computer Aid, Inc.
Computer Sciences Corporation
ConAgra Foods Foundation
Corning Incorporated
CSX Corporation
The Delphi Foundation
Dentsply Sirona
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley
Foundation
R. R. Donnelley Foundation
The Dow Chemical
Company Foundation
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
E*TRADE Financial
Corporation
Eastman Chemical Company
Foundation, Inc.
Eaton Charitable Fund
Electrolux North America
Emerson Charitable Trust
Essentra Holdings Corporation
Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
Ethicon, Inc.
Eversource Energy Foundation, Inc.
FedEx Custom Critical, Inc.
FedEx Freight Corporation
FedEx Ground Package
System, Inc.
Ferro Corporation
Fifth Third Foundation
Fluor Foundation
FMC Corporation
FMC Technologies, Inc.
Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.
FTS International, LLC
GAF
Gannett Foundation, Inc.
GEICO Philanthropic Foundation
Genentech, Inc.
General Dynamics
General Dynamics Ordnance and
Tactical Systems
Georgia-Pacific Foundation, Inc.
GKN Foundation
Gleason Family Foundation
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
(Gulfstream Aerospace
Corporation) Rolls-Royce
North America Inc.
Harris Corporation
H. J. Heinz Company
Foundation
Henkel Corporation
Hormel Foods Corporation
Charitable Trust
The Harvey Hubbell
Foundation
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Ingersoll-Rand Charitable
Foundation
Insperity Services, L.P.
International Union of Bricklayers
and Allied Craftworkers
Jacobs Engineering Foundation
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Janssen Research &
Development, LLC
Janssen Supply Chain
John Bean Technologies
Corporation
Johnson & Johnson World
Headquarters
Kaman Corporation
The Kennametal Foundation
Knovel
LANXESS Corporation
Leidos, Inc.
Liberty Mutual Scholarship
Foundation
Loews Foundation
Lord & Taylor Foundation
LPL Financial
The Lubrizol Foundation
Macy’s, Inc.
Mannington Mills, Inc.
Maritz Holdings Inc.
Marsh & McLennan
Companies, Inc.
McKesson Foundation Inc.
Mead Johnson & Company, LLC
Mead Witter Foundation, Inc.
MetLife Foundation
The MITRE Corporation
Molex LLC
The Moody’s Foundation
MorphoTrust USA, LLC
Motorola Solutions Foundation
National Distillers Distributors
Foundation
(National Gypsum Company)
C. D. Spangler Foundation, Inc.
Nationwide Foundation
New Jersey Manufacturers
Insurance Company
New York Life Foundation
The NewMarket Foundation
NextEra Energy Foundation, Inc.
NiSource Charitable
Foundation
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Northrop Grumman
Corporation
Novartis US Foundation
Novo Nordisk Inc.
Occidental Petroleum
Corporation
Old National Bancorp
Olin Corporation Charitable Trust
OMNOVA Solutions
Foundation, Inc.
Omron Foundation, Inc.
Owens Corning Foundation
Panavision Inc.
Parker Hannifin Foundation
Sagar G. Patel Memorial Fund
Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
Frank E. Payne and Seba B.
Payne Foundation
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Company
The PepsiCo Foundation, Inc.
Pfizer Inc
Pilkington North America, Inc.
PPG Foundation
PPG Industries, Inc.
PPL
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Principal Life Insurance
Company
Public Service Enterprise
Group
Putnam Investments, LLC
Quanex Foundation
Raytheon Company
Research Triangle Institute
Rexam Inc. Foundation
Reynolds American Foundation
Rheem Manufacturing
Company
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Collins
Rolls-Royce North America Inc.
S&P Global
Sage Software, Inc.
Schindler Elevator Corporation
Schneider Electric North America
Foundation
Scripps Howard Foundation
Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.
Sensient Technologies
Foundation
Sentry Insurance Foundation, Inc.
Siemens Foundation
Snap-on Incorporated
Sogeti USA LLC
Solvay America
Sony Electronics Inc.
Southern Company Services, Inc.
Southwest Airlines Co.
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
SRI International
State Farm Companies
Foundation
Suburban Propane, L.P.
Tate & Lyle Americas LLC
TD Ameritrade Services
Company, Inc.
TEGNA Foundation, Inc.
Teradata Corporation
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Textron Charitable Trust
J. Walter Thompson Company
Fund, Inc.
3M Company
Tomkins Gates Foundation
The Travelers Employees’ Club
Tredegar Corporation
Uhlig LLC
United Services Automobile
Association
United States Fire Insurance
Company
The UPS Foundation
USG Foundation, Inc.
Utility Workers Union of
America, AFL-CIO
Varian Medical Systems
Vulcan Materials Company
Foundation
Walgreen Co.
Waste Management National
Services Inc.
Weatherford International, LLC
Westlake Chemical Corporation
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
The Xerox Foundation
Zoetis Inc.
COLLEGE SPONSORS
The colleges and universities named
in this list are expected to offer
Merit Scholarship awards in 2017 for
Finalists who will attend the sponsor
institution. A few additional colleges
may make arrangements with NMSC to
sponsor scholarships in 2017.
Abilene Christian University
Alma College
American University
Arizona State University,
and identified campuses
Auburn University
Ball State University
Baylor University
Belmont University
Bethel University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Bradley University
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Bucknell University
Butler University
Calvin College
Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
Centre College
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Colby College (ME)
College of Charleston
College of Wooster
Colorado College
Colorado State University
Concordia College (MN)
Creighton University
Davidson College
Denison University
DePauw University
Dickinson College
Drake University
Emory University
Florida State University
Fordham University,
and identified campuses
Franklin and Marshall College
Furman University
George Washington University
Gordon College (MA)
Goshen College
Grinnell College
Gustavus Adolphus College
Harding University
Harvey Mudd College
Hendrix College
Hillsdale College
Hope College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Indiana University Bloomington
Iowa State University
Ithaca College
Kalamazoo College
Kansas State University
Kenyon College
Knox College
Lawrence University (WI)
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College (OR)
Liberty University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech University
Loyola University Chicago
Luther College
Macalester College
Marquette University
Messiah College
Miami University-Oxford
Michigan State University
Michigan Technological University
Mississippi State University
Missouri University of Science
and Technology
Montana State University-Bozeman
New College of Florida
North Dakota State University
Northeastern University (MA)
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio University-Athens
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma State University
Franklin W. Olin College of
Engineering
Oregon State University
Ouachita Baptist University
Pennsylvania State University,
and identified campuses
Pepperdine University
Pomona College
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology
Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey,
and identified campuses
Saint Louis University
St. Olaf College
Samford University
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology
South Dakota State University
Southern Methodist University
Southwestern University (TX)
Stony Brook University
Tennessee Technological University
Texas A&M University
Texas Christian University
Texas Tech University
Trinity University (TX)
Truman State University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
University of Alabama at
Tuscaloosa
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Dallas
University of Dayton
University of Evansville
University of Florida
University of Georgia Foundation
University of HoustonMain Campus
University of Idaho
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland,
and identified campuses
University of Miami
University of Minnesota,
and identified campuses
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Missouri-Kansas City
University of Montana-Missoula
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Reno
University of New Mexico
University of North Dakota
University of North Texas
University of Oklahoma,
and identified campuses
University of Oregon
University of Pittsburgh
University of Puget Sound
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of St. Thomas (MN)
University of the South
University of South Carolina,
and identified campuses
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Tulsa
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of WisconsinEau Claire
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wyoming
Ursinus College
Valparaiso University
Vanderbilt University
Villanova University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Washington and Lee University
Washington State University
Wayne State University (MI)
West Virginia University
Foundation, Inc.
Western Washington University
Westmont College
Wheaton College (IL)
Whitman College
Wichita State University
Willamette University
Wofford College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University (OH)
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