Scholarships are financial aid awards designed to help students pay for an undergraduate or graduate degree. These financial awards differ from student loans because they do not have to be repaid. 

• Sometimes a scholarship comes in a one-time check. Other scholarships are renewable and provide student with money each semester or school year.

• Students might receive the money directly as a check in their name.  In other cases, the money is given to the student's school. When that happens, the student would pay the school for the difference in any money owed for tuition, fees, room, and board.

• If the scholarships and other forms of financial aid are enough to cover the direct college costs, the excess money is refunded to the student.

• Amazon Future Engineers - Get a $40,000 scholarship ($10,000/year) towards an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science and an offer to complete a summer internship at Amazon!

• Cappex – A free website where you can learn which colleges want you, before you apply and learn about more than $11 billion in merit aid scholarships.

• CashCourse – Information that helps college students stay financially informed.

• Chegg – A place to connect with scholarships and learn about colleges.

• The College Board Opportunity Scholarships - The program guides juniors and seniors through the college planning process and offers the chance to earn scholarships, from $500 to $40,000, for every action that students complete.

• Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation – Educational and scholarship opportunities for students of all levels.

• Dell Scholars Program – Recognizes academic potential and determination in students that have a definite need for financial assistance.

• Fastweb – Create a profile and let fastweb do the research on scholarships, internships colleges and more for you.

• Going Merry - A free, one-stop scholarships platform. It matches you with scholarships and then helps you apply directly. It has both local and national scholarships and you can bulk-apply for multiple scholarships, which share similar essay prompts, using one application.

• Goizueta Legacy Scholarship - Provides scholarships for the children of Coca-Cola employees.

• HS Finder (Hispanic Scholarship Fund) – Scholarship information for Latino students.

• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation - A national scholarship provider dedicated to advancing the education of promising students who have financial need. Open to high-achieving high school seniors who seek to attend and graduate from some of the nation's best four-year college and universities.

• KnowHow2GO – Complete information on college prep, whether in middle school or seniors.

• Nitro Scholarship Search Database by Sallie Mae

• The NSHSS Foundation - The NSHSS Foundation fosters the growth of students pursuing the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math), business, economics, public policy, and environmental science and sustainability fields. The NSHSS Foundation connects young scholars with additional opportunities to advance their education, personal growth and career interests.

• Peerlift - Proven scholarships, internships, summer programs, and more gathered by fellow students like you. 

• Reagan Foundation Scholarships - Scholarship opportunities for outstanding student leaders.

• Sallie Mae - The Sallie Mae Fund’s Bridging the Dream Scholarship Program for High School Seniors helps make the dream of higher education a reality for outstanding high school seniors from historically underserved communities. 

• Scholarship Academy - The Scholarship Academy is committed to offering concrete tools to help students take ownership of their financial future.

• Scholar Snapp - A free, simple to use data standard that allows students to reuse their application information - including contact information, essays, transcripts, etc. - from one scholarship application to another thereby streamlining the college scholarship application process.

• Scholarships.com– A free college scholarship search and financial aid information.

• Scholarship America – Provides information and resources for your scholarship search.

• Scholly – A mobile app that provides students with a fast and simple way to find scholarships for college. 

• Thurgood Marshall College Fund – Provides scholarships, programmatic and capacity building support to the 47 public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

• UNCF – Awards 10,000 students each year through 400 scholarship and internship programs so that students from low- and moderate-income families can afford college tuition, books and room and board.