California
Student Aid Commission: The
California Student Aid Commission administers a variety of
scholarship and loan repayment programs for California
residents.
College
Aid Sources for Higher Education (CASHE):
CASHE is a free financial aid service
offered by Sallie Mae. The database includes thousands of private
scholarships, grants, tuition waivers, internships and
fellowships.
CollegeNet:
A free searchable database with over 500,000
listings of private sector awards. This site is updated
annually.
FinAid:
FinAid contains a comprehensive annotated
collection of information about student financial aid. Access to
this site is free for all users and there is no charge to link to
the site.
FastWeb:
FastWeb lets students create a personalized
profile that can be matched against an expansive database
containing over 600,000 scholarships.
Fellowship
Listing at Yale: This site
lists several fellowship programs and other resources, with
special focus on graduate educational opportunities for
women.
Ford
Foundation Fellowship for Minoritites:
Predoctoral fellowships provide three years
of support at $11,500 per year to individuals who are members of
minority groups underrepresented in the nation's Ph.D. population.
Awards are made for doctoral programs in the sciences, humanities
and engineering. Application deadline is early
November.
Free
Application for Federal Student Aid:
This bi-lingual site (both Spanish and
English) contains an on-line application for all types of federal
student aid (both loans and grants); also contains work-study
information.
Free
Scholarship Search (FreSch!):
FreSch! has a database of over 2,000
organizations and foundations that offer scholarships,
representing approximately 169,000 awards. This is also a very
comprehensive site, which also lists information on federal
student loans (Perkins, Stafford, PLUS, Pell).
Graduate
Fellowship Notebook: The
Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship Notebook is an
extensive database of fellowships offered to graduate students,
the majority of which are non-Cornell sources. See also their
gopher of fellowship competitions open to undergraduate
students.
GrantsNet:
GrantsNet is an on-line resource that helps
science majors find scholarships and grants for training in the
biomedical sciences and undergraduate science
education.
Hispanic
Scholarship Fund :
Eligibility Requirements - Be of Hispanic
background; Full-time student at an accredited US college with at
least a minimum GPA of 2.7 & 15 completed credits; US or
permanent resident status. Awards
generally range from $1,000 - $3,000 per academic year (awarded
each Spring). Community College, Four-Year, & Graduate
students eligible.
Minority
Fellowships (University of Chicago):
Lists several fellowships specifically for
minority students.
Minority
On-Line Information Services (MOLIS):
Molis provides comprehensive financial aid
information for minority students. This website contains extensive
information on scholarships available for minority students in the
sciences. Also provides information about minority
institutions.
National
Science Foundation - Graduate Student Scholarships:
Graduate Research Fellowships
are available through NSF, with additional awards offered for
women in engineering and computer and information science. The
fellowships provide three years of support with a stipend of
$16,200 per year at the school of choice, and include complete
remission of tuition and fees to approximately 900 graduate
students each year in the mathematical, physical, biological,
engineering, and behavioral and social sciences. Application
deadline is early November.
NIH
Undergraduate Scholarship Program:
NIH offers various types of scholarships to
students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to
careers in biomedical research.
Scholarship
Resource Network Express:
This database provides information on
portable, private-sector, non-need based aid.
Succeed
Now!: Succeed Now is a
service of NSF that lists several graduate school fellowships and
scholarships for minority graduate students.
