Prestige scholarships are nationally competitive scholarships, and include the Marshall, Rhodes, Truman, Udall, and Goldwater. Most of the scholarships support graduate study in the U.S. or abroad. Several require applicants to be nominated by their University. In order to help FAU students learn about and apply for these lucrative awards, FAU has established a Prestige Scholarship Coordinating Committee of faculty advisors that will actively encourage faculty to identify and recruit potentially competitive candidates, cultivate prospective applicants, and organize the institutional screening of candidates when the rules of competition require this.

Recent FAU Recipients of Prestige Scholarships:
Sarah Wiggill (Honors College '2006: Jack Kent Cooke graduate award)
Daniel Gopman (Honors College '2008: NSEP-Boren in 2006 for study in Russia)
Heather Chase (Honors College: NSEP-Boren in 2007 for study in Morocco)