Concord — For a lot young immigrants known as “Dreamers,” the cost and challenges of juggling jobs and family duties often prove to be insurmountable hurdles to earning a college degree.

But now one New Hampshire university is hoping to change that with a $20 million program that will offer scholarships to 1,000 working-class and low-income students who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA program. Most scholarship programs for DACA students are offered to attend more expensive, four year programs.

Southern New Hampshire University is getting support from The Shapiro Foundation, an organization which primarily assists children and refugees and TheDream.US, the largest scholarship program for dreamers.

TheDream.US provides over $100 million in scholarships to 3,000 DACA students at 75 partner colleges in 15 states.

The university will offer the assistance over the next five years for DACA students to pursue degrees through one of the university’s online programs.

The scholarship program will cover many more students than the others because the university estimates the tuition is about 25 times cheaper than what a student might pay to attend a traditional, four-year university.