The Homecoming Scholars Award Program for the 2018-19 academic year will give US$25,000 (RM97,000) in scholarship money to a student respectively at Xavier University in Louisiana, Wilberforce University in Ohio, Tuskegee University in Alabama, and Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, the singer’s foundation said.

Beyoncé’s performance at the Coachella festival in the Southern California desert on Saturday was billed as a homage to education and black American culture, featuring a marching band, performance art, choir, and dance. She was supported by more than 150 performers on stage.

It was the first time a black woman headlined the two-weekend festival, one of the biggest US music gatherings of the year.

“We honour all institutions of higher learning for maintaining culture and creating environments for optimal learning which expands dreams and the seas of possibilities for students,” Ivy McGregor, who administers the singer’s BeyGood foundation, said in a statement announcing the scholarship.

Last year, the 36-year-old singer established a merit scholarship program to support young women.

The singer’s Coachella performance, which was streamed live on YouTube, was hailed as an “unprecedented celebration of black cultural influence in America” by NBC News.

Trade publication Variety called Beyoncé’s show, her first in more than a year, a “musical, visual, and physical triumph.”