Finding Financial Aid

Finding College Scholarships is Time Consuming

Surfing the Web is the Best Way of Finding College Scholarships


The best way of finding college scholarships in this day and age is on the Internet. With scholarship databases, you fill in your personal criteria and only scholarships that fit your profile will be retrieved.

  • The largest, fastest, most accurate scholarship database is FastWeb.com. This site is also the most frequently updated database featuring the most recent college scholarships being offered. Once you put in your profile and enter your email address, FastWeb will notify you when new college scholarships that match your profile are added to their database. It doesn't take much time to search this database and best of all, it's free!

  • Along with FastWeb, you should at least search one other scholarship database. A good starting point is College Scholarships. You will find some overlap, but usually there will be a few scholarships in each database not listed anywhere else.

  • The College Board's FUND FINDER college scholarship database scholarship and financial aid programs from over 3,000 national and state public and private programs. This database is updated annually.

  • Another source of college scholarships is The Scholarship Resource Network. This site contains information about awards from more than 1,500 organizations and is updated annually.

  • A database that covers over 2,000 scholarship sources is the Peterson's Award Search Peterson's is one of the best known and trusted names in education publishing.

    For a great reference book check out the "Idiot's Guide to Financial Aid for College". There is a great chapter on searching the web for college scholarships. It contains pages of sites where you can find scholarship databases for scores of special interest and niche scholarships. It will be worth your time to check out this great resource.









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There are numerous databases on the Internet for college scholarships. This listing is only the tip of the iceberg. Along with the large general databases, there are innumerable smaller databases that provide information on tightly focused niches and career interests such as nursing, art or computer science, just to name a few.

Searching for college scholarships on the web does take time. Spend some time to construct a profile and you will find it will save you hours of work. Once you find scholarships that fit your interest, you can quickly fill out a form online and send away for the applications.


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Updated May 22st, 2008

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