The Excellence in Experiential Learning Honors Program (UIU ExcEL) truly represents: opportunity in motion. Your donation would help 18-22 year olds graduate from Upper Iowa with reduced debt and advanced career preparation.

A Scholarship That Lifts the Weight

For many students, college begins with a question: How will I afford this?

UIU ExcEL answers that question with action.

As an ExcEL Scholar, tuition is 100% covered. The financial burden that holds so many students back is removed, allowing scholars to focus fully on learning, growing, and contributing. Instead of worrying about debt, ExcEL students invest their energy into building their futures.

Learning Beyond the Classroom

But UIU ExcEL is more than a scholarship, it’s a commitment to growth through experience.

Each scholar averages 15 hours per week in meaningful on- and off-campus employment. These aren’t just jobs. They’re laboratories for leadership. Class concepts become real-world solutions. Communication turns into confidence. Responsibility becomes professionalism.

Service That Shapes Character

ExcEL Scholars complete 200 service hours over four years, not as a requirement to check off, but as a mission to embrace.

UIU ExcEL brings together students who are ready to do more, more learning, more serving, more growing.

The Excellence in Experiential Learning Honors Program is not just about funding education.

It’s about transforming potential into purpose.

At Upper Iowa University, ExcEL Scholars don’t just attend college; they experience it.