In keeping with its focus on education, Fluor supports several programs to provide scholarships for higher education.

For more than a quarter century, Fluor has sponsored a scholarship program for employee children. The Fluor Scholarship Program acknowledges the accomplishments of these children and supports their goals and aspirations to obtain degrees and certificates at universities, colleges, and vocational/technical schools. Scholarship America administers the program and annually processes approximately 500 applications from locations in 19 countries. Each year, more than $700,000 is presented to approximately 275 first-time and renewable scholarship winners. Since the program's inception, Fluor has issued more than $9 million in scholarships to nearly 2,200 employees' children.

In 2003, the Fluor Foundation and Del-Jen, a company in the Fluor Government Group, launched the Fluor Foundation Job Corps Scholarship Program — the first higher-education scholarship program designed specifically for Job Corps students. Each year, seven Job Corps students are selected to receive a $5,000 renewable scholarship from the Fluor Foundation. The Job Corps Centers are located in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas. A U.S. federally funded program, Job Corps is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the nation's largest and most comprehensive residential, education, and job-training program for at-promise youth, ages 16 through 24.

In creating a pool of qualified candidates to combat the acute shortage of engineers in South Africa, Fluor established a bursary program in 1998. Annually 15 renewable bursaries are awarded to students pursuing engineering degrees.

Fluor Corporation sponsors scholarships at partner universities in Canada, the Philippines, Poland, United Kingdom, and the United States. Funding is directed to engineering departments and student associations such as the Society of Women Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the National Society of Black Engineers.

In 1998, Houston employees set a goal of raising $500,000 to establish a scholarship program at Texas A&M University. With employee contributions and matching funds from the Fluor Foundation and the university, they achieved that goal in 2002 and created an endowment fund. Each year, 20 scholarships are issued to Texas A&M University students pursuing degrees in engineering, construction science, or business.