Pittsburgh's Carlow College has received $1 million from the F. E. McGillick Foundation to fund scholarships and pay for renovations at its Hill College satellite facility, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

The scholarship fund will provide $2,500 grants to as many as 40 Hill College students a year over eight years, the paper reports.

Annual tuition there is $7,000. The only qualifications for the scholarships are recipients must be needy Catholic students between the ages of 16 and 50, the paper reports.

Renovation funds will be applied to the school's Bedford Avenue site. A classroom building will be re-dedicated as the Francis Edward McGillick School of Carlow College in recognition of the gift.

Carlow College is a private, Catholic women's college established in 1929 as Mount Mercy College.

The 15-year-old Hill College facility offers co-educational academic and career education programs, primarily for Pittsburgh's minority communities.

The McGillick Foundation was created in 1937 by real-estate mogul Francis E. McGillick. It primarily offers scholarships to low-income Catholic students.

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