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American Universities
Click on a map to find the homepages of 4-year universities.

Absolutely Scholarships
  This site was founded in 1998 by two college students to help others find money for college after experiencing first hand the arduous task of obtaining funds. What started out as a home-based project is now a nationally recognized service listing over 200,000 awards.
Aris Funding Reports
  Scholarships listed are grouped in the following categories: creative arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, biomedical sciences, and general.
Broke Scholar
  BrokeScholar is a free search engine that lets you search through a database of more than 900,000 college scholarships. After you complete the on-line questionnaire, BrokeScholar shows you each scholarship's name, how much money is available, and the application deadline. Click on the name of any scholarship and BrokeScholar shows you more in-depth information aboutthat scholarship including applicable majors and schools, contact information, and even a link to the scholarship provider's Web site.
Club Scholarship
  Clubscholarship.com has over 500,000 awards in a searchable database that allows users to browse for the best matches. It also has a school search feature, EFC calculator, and Financial Aid Forum.
College Board's Pay for College:  Scholarships - Financial Aid
College for Texans
  Up-to-date, easy-to-follow information on: preparing for college, selecting a college, paying for college, making your way through college, and choosing a career.
(A project of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.)
CollegePrep-101
  CollegePrep-101 is made available by the Oklahoma State University College of Education
College Scholarships.com
  While this commercial site promises to build a personalized list of scholarships that fit a student, it also includes regularly updated scholarship information that is available to anyone who visits the site.
Fast Web
  Very comprehensive site contains a database of over 600,000 scholarships and is growing all the time. Complete a questionnaire and Fast Web will give you a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Some scholarship applications are available on line. Fast Web will also notify you if additional scholarships are added to its data base that are a match for you.
FRESCH
  Weekly newsletter of scholarship and financial aid information. Also has list of contest students can enter to win money for college.
GeoScholarships
  Free scholarship search site also has links to other financial aid information.
Go College
  Scholarship search engine. site also has information on loans and government programs.
Guaranteed Scholarships
  This comprehensive site lists scholarships that are unlimited in number, and require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition competition of other "secondary" requirements. The scholarships are listed by college. This site would be especially useful to valedictorians and other students with outstanding qualifications.
Hispanic Fund
  This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students and universities who participate in the Hispanic Fund scholarship program.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
  This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students, including some for undocumented students.
Literary and Poetry Contest Scams
  Before you take the time to write that poem in an effort to win a scholarship, see if the organization is listed as a scam at this site.
The LULAC National Scholarship Fund
Reserve Officer Training Corps
  Information for students interested in obtaining Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarships from the Army, Navy, or Air Force.
Scholarship Page
  The creator of this site started by looking for electrical engineering scholarships for himself, but has expanded to many other majors. Also included are scholarships grouped by gender, heritage, state, and membership in organizations.
Scholarship News
  Scholarships organized into the following categories: religion, athletics, college major, state of residence, minorities, and handicaps.
Scholarship Resources for Hispanics
  List of linkswas compiled by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
Scholarship Scams
  Site run by the Federal Trade Commission that helps students and parents avoid unethical scholarship data base providers.
Society of Women Engineers
  The Society of Women Engineers administers over 100 individual scholarship awards annually, varying in amount from $1000 to $5000 per year and totaling more than $200,000.
Wired Scholar
  Fill out an on-line questionnaire and let Wired Scholar find scholarships from its database that match your characteristics.

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