Our Corporate Partner Programs
Scholarships, Honors, & Awards
In conjunction with its Corporate Partner Program, The Professional Sales Institute provides a variety of student scholarships, honors and awards with a focus on two interrelated objectives:
- Encourage quality students to explore professional selling as a rewarding career opportunity.
- Recognize and reward sales students who have distinguished themselves through their high achievements, enthusiasm and excitement for a personal selling career.
Each year, the Professional Sales Institute provides up to $24,400 in scholarships and awards to students enrolled in the Professional Sales Sequence. This extensive scholarship and award program includes the following opportunities:
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car Professional Sales Student Scholar Program – provides up to 20 students with $1,000 scholarship opportunities to select juniors electing the Professional Sales Sequence of study. In addition to the scholarships, this student scholar program also includes extensive out-of-class learning opportunities and credit hours towards graduation.
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Student Application Form (pdf)
- Professional Sales Leadership Freshman Scholarship Program – provides up to 10 freshmen students with $200 scholarships. Qualified candidates must enroll or declare their interest to enroll as a new freshman majoring in sales and marketing, achieve a minimum 3.0 high school GPA on a 4.0 scale, and rank in the top quarter of their high school class, or have an ACT Composite Score of 24 or above (equivalent SAT score also acceptable).
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Student Application Form (pdf)
- Windy City Wire All-Around Outstanding Senior Sales Student Award – provides a $1,000 award for a graduating senior in the Professional Sales Sequence with a 3.0 GPA or higher. In addition to GPA, candidates must demonstrate strong qualities in leadership, service and professionalism through their academic and extra-curricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- AAA- Chicago All-Around Junior Sales Student Award – provides a $300 award for a junior or first semester senior in the Professional Sales Sequence with a 3.0 GPA or higher and less than 90 hours completed. In addition to GPA, candidates must demonstrate strong qualities in leadership, service, and professionalism through extra-curricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- Frito-Lay Sales in Action Award: Outstanding Senior – provides a $300 award for a graduating senior in the Professional Sales Sequence with a 3.0 GPA or higher. Primary emphasis is on students who have exhibited exemplary involvement, work-ethic, and leadership in sales related work, internships, student organizations and other extracurricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form pdf)
- Fastenal Sales in Action Award: Outstanding Junior – provides a $300 award for a junior with at least 75 hours but less than 90 hours completed and is enrolled in the Professional Sales Sequence with a 3.0 GPA or higher. Primary emphasis is on students who have exhibited exemplary involvement, work-ethic, and leadership in sales related work, internships, student organizations and other extracurricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- Chicago Office Technology Group Outstanding Sales Intern Award – provides a $300 award to a junior or senior student completing a Professional Sales Internship for credit, enrolled in the Professional Sales Sequence, and having a 3.0 GPA or higher. Primary consideration will be given to students who exhibit strong professionalism, work-ethic, and enthusiasm in their sales related internship. Recipient is selected by a committee consisting of the Sales & Marketing Internship Director and members of the sales faculty.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- Northwestern Mutual Financial Network-Scott Carr Group Senior Sales Student Excellence in Leadership Award – provides a $300 award to a senior student in the Professional Sales Sequence having a 3.0 GPA or higher, demonstrating exemplary leadership, and serving as a positive role model for fellow students throughout their course and extracurricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- First Investors Junior Sales Student Excellence in Leadership Award - provides a $300 award to junior student in the Professional Sales Sequence having a 3.0 GPA or higher, demonstrating exemplary leadership, and servings as a positive role model for fellow students throughout their course and extracurricular activities. Sales faculty members select the winner.
Student Application Form (pdf)
- Sherwin Williams Exemplar Sales Student Scholar & Coaching Award - provides a $300 award to a senior in the Professional Sales Student Scholar Program having a 3.0 GPA or higher and demonstrating exemplary achievement as a Sales Student Scholar and excellence in coaching and mentoring sales program students. Students enrolled in sales courses and interacting with Sales Scholar coaches vote to select the recipient.
- University Sales Center Alliance Certified Sales Student Achievement Program – This national program awards selected students an official certificate of recognition for superior academic and professional achievement in selling from the University Sales Center Alliance. In all of the U.S., there are only 11 university sales programs qualified to confer this honor on students who have distinguished themselves in their study and practice of professional selling through a rigorous combination of academic course work and extra curricular activities. In any given year, fewer than 200 students across the U.S. will meet the requirements for this distinctive award. We are proud Illinois State students are part of this elite group each year.
Learn more & Program Requirements
Student Application Form (pdf)
