Scholarship Search Databases
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| Undergraduate Searches | ||
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| Resources | Description | |
| ACS | Scholarship, grant, fellowship, and internship information specifically for members of underrepresented groups who pursue professions in chemistry-related sciences. | |
| AIE | The Adventures in Education website links to scholarship information as well as career planning advice. | |
| BlackExcel.org's 100 Minority Scholarships |
Scholarship, grant, fellowship, and internship information specifically for members of underrepresented groups who pursue professions in chemistry-related sciences. | |
| BrokeScholar.com | To use BrokeScholar, you must register. The site purports to offer members access to a vast, searchable database of over 900,000 scholarships totalling over $3 billion. BrokeScholar also advertises services such as: regular scholarship updates in a monthly email; tools and advice; online pre-written application request letters; and a deadline calendar and alert service. | |
| College Answer Scholarship Search |
A scholarship search service from Sallie Mae. College Answer scholarship search service allows students to search the free database for funding information from a variety of resources, including scholarships, fellowships, grants, work study, loan programs, tuition waivers, internships, competitions, and work co-operative programs. | |
| College Board Online | A database of approximately 3,300 sponsors. The College Board Online Database does not retain personal information; you must reenter your personal data each time you search for scholarships. | |
| collegeinsight.org | This website allows you to compare financial and demographic data for colleges across the country (cost of attendance, average student debt load, how many students apply for financial aid, diversity, etc.). You can print out anything you want in either table or graph form. | |
| Collegetoolkit.com | Collegetoolkit.com is a one-stop scholarship and college resource for students, which has been featured on CNN.com, the Christian Science Monitor, and Attache Magazine! Collegetoolkit.com's One-Stop College & Scholarship Resource allows students to find and apply for scholarships, search through a database of more than 4,000 colleges, and explore 900 careers all in one location. It is one of the most comprehensive sites for life after high school... and everything on the site is free for students to use! | |
| FastAID | Dan Cassidy's FastAID, another comprehensive scholarship resource, advertises the site as the "World's largest and oldest private sector scholarship database. 20 years of Scholarship Research, Constantly updated." | |
| fastWEB | A free, searchable database that contains more than 600,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans totalling over 1 billion dollars. Plan to spend 30 minutes creating your profile the first time that you use fastWEB. | |
| Finaid | FinAid provides an excellent site with great funding resources, tips, and general college information. | |
| Financial Aid Advisor | The Financial Aid Advisor allows users to perform a keyword, simple, or advanced database search without savings a profile. | |
| findtuition.com | A free scholarship search site. | |
| Go College Scholarship Search | This search service lists more than 8,000 funding sources comprised of more than 600,000 individual awards, and selects those matching the student's profile. You must choose a user ID and password to use this service. The main Go College web page provides college-related resources and information. | |
| Latino College Dollars | Latino College Dollars is a free online scholarship directory for Latinos sponsored by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI). Students may download a printable directory of scholarship listings or search the online database according to personal criteria. This site also offers general guidelines and tips to aid students in the scholarship process. | |
| Military.com | Military.com specializes in funding for the armed services. | |
| Military Officers' Association of America Scholarship Database | Scholarships, grants, and loans available to the military community. | |
| Scholarhip-positions.com | This site focuses on international scholarships, so its helpful in looking for funding to study abroad. It also has a lot of US scholarships. | |
| ScholarshipExperts | Scholarship Experts helps students and parents to quickly and accurately identify sources of college scholarships. They help both US and international students find scholarships to attend college in the USA. | |
| ScholarshipHunter.com | ScholarshipHunter.com provides a browseable list of scholarships classified by criteria such as academic major or state. The lists include captions about each scholarship and links to a detailed page of information on the scholarship including how to apply. The site does not appear to require any registration. | |
| Scholarships.com | Enter your personalized profile to match your specific skills, talents, interests, and abilities to Scholarships.com's database of over 600,000 college scholarship awards. Your results will be delivered to you immediately on-line. Scholarships.com also offers information on loans and grants. | |
| SchoolSoup | A large scholarship database and search engine containing $32 Billion worth of scholarships. | |
| UNCF | A large listing of scholarships available for African-American graduate and undergraduate students who attend or attended UNCF member institutions. | |
| UCLA and UC Graduate Funding Opportunities | ||
| Resource | Description | |
| GRAPES | UCLA's Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support database lists scholarship, fellowship, and grant opportunities for graduate students. | |
| UCLA Office of Contract and Grant Administration | OCGA provides direct funding links to SPIN, IRIS, Community of Science, FEDIX, NSF, NIH databases, and federal agencies and private foundations. OCGA also provides UCLA-specific and UC-specific funding opportunities and a funding newsletter among other helpful resources. | |
| Other Graduate Funding Opportunities | ||
| Resource | Description | |
| Arkansas Scholarship Connection | Scholarship, fellowship, and grant opportunities database from the state of Arkansas listing funding opportunities for graduate students nationwide. | |
| Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance | The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide compendium of all 1,479 federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. These programs provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, services, information, scholarships, training, insurance, and many other resources. | |
| Community of Science | COS states that its site comprises "the most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 22,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion." Listings include R&D opportunities from fields outside the physical and life sciences. | |
| Fedix | Fedix, a Science Wise resource, provides funding alerts and information about federal, corporate, and European grants for individuals who pursue the sciences and engineering, as well as a wealth of research resources. Individuals can sign up for the Science Wise alert, a free e-mail service that delivers valuable research and education funding opportunities. The Science Wise Archive Research Funding Search lists links to specific U.S. government funding sites. | |
| Grant Net | Grant Net provides program search and a funding directory with contact information. | |
| Nationally Coveted College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships & Postdoctoral Awards |
Excellently organized graduate listings you can browse. Contains information for nationally coveted awards, Science and Engineering, Human Health, Women, Minorities, Hodgepodge, and Multiple Sources. This resource links to the University of New Mexico, and lists several graduate scholarships, grants, and fellowships. Users can either browse listings or access the database. | |
| NIH | A direct funding link as well as general NIH information. | |
| NSF | A direct funding link as well as general NSF information. | |
