• The Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship gives students the chance to grow in their academic careers and anti-fraud professions. 
• Additionally, by offering a full year of ACFE membership, it helps their anti-fraud goals. $10,000, $5,000, $2,500, and $1,000 in award sums are paid directly to the recipient's college or university.

History

• The scholarship programme was started in 1992 to give students who had proven themselves in studies relating to fraud opportunity. 
• To honour ACFE members Larry Jennings, CFE, and Tracy Ritchie, CFE, the scholarship programme was renamed the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship in 1998. On November 14, 1997, two males were among the five persons killed during terrorist assaults in Karachi, Pakistan.

• Students must exhibit a desire to work in fraud examination or a related anti-fraud profession, as well as:
• Have an accounting, business administration, finance, or criminal justice major or minor declared.
• Be enrolled full-time in an accredited four-year college or university for the academic year 2023-2024.
• When applying, undergraduates must be enrolled in at least 9 semester hours (or equivalent) per term and in the second half of their sophomore year.
• Graduates must enroll in a minimum of 6 semester hours (or equivalent) per term in order to graduate.

• The application season is now ended, but it will reopen on September 15th for the academic year 2023-2024. 
• Applicants that meet the criteria can apply through the scholarship application portal. 
• Only applications that are fully completed and received by the deadline will be considered.