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SME Solutions Group Certificate Reimbursement Scholarship

With the goal of helping our students in their efforts to acquire professionally marketable knowledge and skills, the department has developed a certification exam support program that refunds the costs of relevant certification exams for students in the department's degree programs. This fund is made possible by the generous support of our local industry partners. Exam support is on a first-come-first-serve basis while funds last. Availability of funds may be inquired from the department front office.

To ensure that the limited available funds are used judiciously, the award requires that all the following conditions be met. Students are often very creative in making the case for support (and rightly so!), therefore the department reserves the right to update these conditions retro-actively as new information becomes available. Please confirm with Megan Gorrell at megananthony@usf.edu before taking the certification exam.

• The student's primary major at the time of taking the exam is from the School of Information Systems and Management (currently Business Analytics & Information Systems and Management)
• The certificate is included in the list of certificates below. If not, the certificate must be directly related to the academic program and be approved by the program's academic director prior to taking the exam
• The student uses his/ her ßÙßÇÂþ»­ email address and affiliation to register for the exam
• The registration fee takes the benefits of all academic discounts (only the academic price for the certification exam will be awarded)
• The student passes the certificate examination

Students MUST register for the exam with their ßÙßÇÂþ»­ email address and forward the documents below to megananthony@usf.edu.

• Certificate Reimbursement Form (Please send via Docusign)
• W-8BEN Form (Non-U.S. citizens)
• W-9 Form (U.S. citizens)
• Itemized receipt of the exam purchase showing you signed up for this with your USF email address
• Copy of your credit card statement showing the charge Please blackout all information except your name, the last 4 of your credit card, and the specific charge.
• Informational page about the certification  (Screenshot of webpage, flyer, etc.) 
• Copy of passing exam score

Currently, the following certificates are covered by the certification exam support program.

• AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
  
• Azure Data Engineer- Associate
  
• Snowflake SnowPro Core
  
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer
  
• Google Data Professional Data Engineer