15 Places to Find College Grants and Scholarships Online
July 4, 2009 by Karen Schweitzer
Filed under Online Colleges
With the rising cost of tuition, finding the resources to attend college can be tough. Fortunately, there are billions of dollars in grants and scholarships that can be found online to ease the financial burden for college students. Here is a list of 15 sites that you can search for college grants and scholarships.
FastWeb – FastWeb is a great place to find money for college. The site’s scholarship database includes more than 1.5 million college scholarships and grants for high school, college, and graduate students.
Scholarship Experts – With 2.4 scholarships and an up-to-date database, Scholarship Experts is one of the best places online to find college funds. The site also features a time saving scholarship finder that matches students to scholarships by hobbies, interests, and academic background.
CollegeBoard – Designed specifically for college bound students, the CollegeBoard site includes a handy scholarship finder that can match students to more than 2,300 sources of funding based on a few basic variables.
Scholarships.com – The Scholarships.com database includes more than 2.7 million scholarships and grants worth nearly $20 billion. Students can search for scholarships based on fully-customizable criteria and create one-click scholarship application letters.
Federal Student Aid – The Department of Education offers a large database of scholarships and grants to fit any student’s needs. Their scholarship finder lets you simply enter your field of interest, then scroll through the dozens of matches.
The Scholarship Page – The Scholarship Page was created by a student who was having a hard time finding money for college. It can be used to browse scholarships by country, organization, state, heritage, or major. The Scholarship Page also contains a directory of links to other sites with scholarship search engines.
International Student – International Student has a variety of scholarships, grants, and fellowships for international students or students who plan to study abroad. Visitors can browse awards by type, location, and field of study.
College Scholarships – This meta search engine for scholarships pulls results from several different scholarship websites to limit the amount of time it takes to find scholarship money.
NextStudent – NextStudent is one of the largest scholarship sites on the web. It is a good place for students to start their scholarship search. The site offers more than 69,000 sources of scholarships and grants worth more than $16 billion.
Peterson’s – Peterson’s offers two different scholarship databases: one for general searches and one for international and study abroad students. Both databases are unique and include billions of dollars in awards.
Careers and Colleges – The Careers and Colleges scholarship finder searches over 7 billion in scholarship funds. The site also features tools to find colleges, careers, and majors.
CollegeData – This scholarship finder from CollegeData uses your academic information, gender, heritage, and residency to find scholarships that fit your needs. The site also lets you add keywords to narrow your searches.
Scholarship Monkey – Scholarship Monkey is a free scholarship searching tool with over 4,000 sources of college financing. This site, complete with a talking monkey, is a superb place for students to obtain information about all kinds of scholarships.
Military.com – Military.com has a scholarship finder for members of the military and their families. More than 1,000 exclusive scholarships and grants are available.
CollegeNet – Students who already know which scholarship they are searching for can use the Mach25 scholarship search engine from CollegeNet. This free application finds scholarships based on keywords or your personal profile.
About the Author
Karen Schweitzer is an education writer who serves as the About.com Guide to Business School. Karen also writes about college courses online for OnlineCourses.org.
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Hi Karen. Thanks for the great list of websites for finding college grants & scholarships. College is expensive these days, but there is a lot of free money up for grabs. It is surprising that more students do not take advantage of these. One problem is that many students learn of these offers too late. As a result, they did not put in the extra effort in high school.
P.S. I think many of these websites have affiliate programs available through cj.com