Scholarship Search Databases
Approximately 2/3 of private scholarship deadlines occur between September and April. This list is always changing, so check back frequently and please report any defunct links.
| 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. |
| Art Deadlines List | Updated monthly, the Arts Deadlines Lists site contains approximately 40-50 competitions, scholarships, and funding primarily for humanities majors. The SRC subscribes to the full version of this excellent newsletter, which lists 400-500 announcements each month. |
| 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. |
| CAPPP Internships | The CAPPP Internship Database contains a list of agencies and organizations in Washington previous internships held by UCLA/CAPPP students. The CAPPP internship database serves as a launching pad to further placement research. CAPPP encourages UCLA students to look for organizations that are not on this list. An excellent place for students interested in government internships to start brainstorming internship ideas. |
| Club Scholarship | Club Scholarship boasts over 500,000 scholarship listings. |
| Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees: Hyperaid |
Headquartered at Arizona State University, CIMD lists summer, undergraduate, and graduate aid, as well as access to several excellent resources, including employment. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Financial Aid Resource Center | This search service, also known as "The Old School," lists several well-organized financial resources, and includes international student links. |
| FundsNet | FundsNet contains scholarship listings that you can browse. At the bottom of each page, be sure to check the "More Scholarships" and "Foundations Online" links for additional listings. |
| 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. |
| HispanicBusiness.com | HispanicBusiness.com advertises their organization as one that "equips Hispanic high-achievers to succeed in America today" to guide "future leaders and builds a dynamic community of individuals who are urban, smart, and making a difference." Hispanic Business provides information on services such as entrepeneurship, franchising, finance, community, and other business-related topics. Their site also provides internship database, cover letter and resume samples, as well as numerous scholarships for individuals of hispanic descent. |
| 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. |
| Mach25 | The Mach25 database, part of Dan Cassidy's College Net, contains over 600,000 awards in a beautiful, easily navigable site which total over $1.6 billion. Mach25 includes both undergraduate and graduate listings, but does not save your profile. |
| Military.com | Military.com specializes in funding for the armed services. |
| NCAA | The NCAA lists several scholarship resources for student athletes. |
| NextStudent | The NextStudent scholarship search allows visitors to search a database of more than 9,000 college funding sources comprised of over 800,000 individually awarded scholarships valued at over $2.8 billion. |
| PrincetonReview.com | PrincetonReview.com requires that you establish an account to use the scholarship search. This search service allows users to find awards based on year of study, minimum award level, areas of study, and applicant criteria. |
| ScholarshipsExperts | 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. |
| ScholarshipsCanada.com | This site requires user registration and provides scholarship information for Canadian citizens and study in Canada. |
| The Scholarship Page! | The Scholarship Page! contains a quick overview of scholarship listings grouped by discipline on the Browse link. Scholarship surfers should make sure to click the "Links" hyperlink, which contains several scholarship-related resources. |
| SchoolSoup | A large scholarship database and search engine containing $32 Billion worth of scholarships. |
| Science Wise | Science Wise provides a sophisticated search engine and a database users can browse for science and engineering majors. Users can choose a quick search also, or sign up for the Science Wise alert, a free e-mail service that delivers valuable research and education funding opportunities. |
| SRN Express | The Scholarship Resource Network, SRN, is an excellent web database resource for scholarship searches. You must register for this service. The SRC also provides UCLA students with free searches on the expanded version of the SRN database. UCLA students can call the SRC at (310) 206-2875 for current information, or visit the SRC workshops to learn how to utilize this service and sign up on MyUCLA. |
| Supercollege.com | SuperCollege provides help on many college-related topics for both parents and students. The site requires users to create a login profile to search 400,000 awards worth over $1.1 billion. |
| Thomson Peterson's Financial Aid Center | Thomson Peterson's Financial Aid Center, sponsored by the National Association of Financial Aid Administrators, provides free membership. This site contains in-depth profiles about college and universities, and allows users to search the Peterson's database of more than 800,000 scholarships and awards. |
| U.S. News & World Report | You can also investigate the U.S. News & World Report Scholarship Database, which lists scholarships based on several criteria, such as ethnicity and national origin, athletics, art, corporate, organizational, and military. You can also complete a personalized search based on the personal characteristics that you enter. U.S. News also publishes a helpful report about financial aid and application strategies for the college application process. |
| 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. |
| Foundation Center | The Foundation Center, an online orientation to the grant- seeking process, provides links to corporate and non-profit funding sites. The Center also lists their Philanthropy News Digest online, as well as specific Research Funding Proposal opportunities, which can be browsed by category. |
| Grant Net | Grant Net provides program search and a funding directory with contact information. |
| IM Diversity.com | IM Diversity online not only contains graduate and fellowship opportunities, but also provides valuable information about career-related resources. The site is "devoted to serving the cultural and career-related needs" and "self-development information" for underrepresented groups. |
| Kachina Technologies, Inc. Graduate 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. |
| NYU GIGS | New York University's Grants in Graduate Studies provides pages of links one can browse by discipline, and also includes a simple search engine. |
| University of Kansas E-grants Page |
The University of Kansas provides a table that summarizes numerous funding opportunities. The UKansas Humanities Grant Development Office provides several useful links for graduate students who seek funding and help on grant development. The list of links includes databases and search engines, foundations, government agencies, humanities funding agencies, humanities research centers, major arts funding agencies, opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral fellowship programs, proposal development advice, and other useful information sources. |
