By making a gift to the Lakeside Fund, your support will help sponsor university scholarships and other education opportunities for BSU students. 

Gifts to this area allow Bemidji State University to provide extraordinary opportunities for learning and discovery and to help meet emerging needs and challenges on campus. These unrestricted funds give BSU the flexibility to undertake critical new initiatives. 

Our donors' financial commitments make transformational opportunities a reality at BSU. We invite you to partner with us in preparing our students for the future.

Key figures

• Nearly 50% of BSU’s students are first-generation college students
• Donor-funded awards for 2018-19 totaled $1,080,000
• Last year, 3,069 alumni, parents, faculty and staff and friends of BSU made a gift in support of students

Lakeside admission scholarships

Gifts to this area allow BSU to be competitive in offering annual scholarships for incoming freshman and returning students, based on academic performance. For more information about this program, click here.