Independence Bank offering scholarships

Press release

Independence Bank is again offering scholarship opportunities for incoming first-year students planning to attend Montana State University-Northern.

To be eligible, students must graduate from a high school in Hill, Blaine, Phillips, Valley, Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Liberty, Chouteau, Cascade, Pondera or Toole counties.

Independence Bank will award eight $1,000 scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year. Recipients will receive $500 during fall semester and $500 during spring semester. Scholarship recipients must have at least a 2.5 GPA to be eligible for the spring award.

For more information on the Independence Bank scholarships, people can contact the MSU-Northern Financial Aid Office at 406-265-3787.

The deadline for scholarship applications is Feb. 2, 2024.

Our 2023-2024 IB scholarship recipients included:

Tristan Fladager, Sterling Shelton, Amaya Bliwernitz, Crawford Terry, Dylan Kuhn, Aaron Boysun and Gavin Hall.