College Scholarships, Colleges, and Online Degrees
Welcome to the Free Scholarship Searches page. Below, you will find links to more than 50 free, online scholarship search sites listing thousands of scholarships and financial aid awards worth billions of dollars. Just visit the sites which seem most appropriate for you and find the scholarships for which you are a good match.
Most of the online scholarship search sites include scholarships that can be used by students enrolled in traditional college programs or by students earning online degrees.
FREE Scholarship Searches



Scholarship Experts
It's no accident we're listing Scholarship Experts first. They are one of the best, most comprehensive free online scholarship searches available to students, parents, and educators.
Petersons/CAPPEX
The two sites apparently partner on this free scholarship search.
High Five Scholarships
They imply that they have a data base with "millions of Scholarships" worth $45 billion dollars. Pardon our skepticism but that sounds like a lot. On the plus side, this site was recommended to us by a college scholarship administrator.
College Prowler
Registration required. Claims a data base of 3.2 million scholarships.
CareerInfonet
A U.S. Department of Labor site with a data base of 7,000 scholarship and financial aid opportunities.
MyCollegeDollars
Recommended to us by an admissions counselor at a university in Texas.
Scholarships 360
This helpful site is run by an admissions officer at Kenyon College.
Washboard
Connects students in Washington state with in-state scholarship providers.
Kaarme
Unlike many other scholarship search and information sites, this one requires no registration and no contact or personal information.
ScholarshipMonkey
They claim a data base of one million scholarships with a value in excess of $3.5 billion. If that's not enough reason to give this site a shot, how often do you get a monkey to talk to you?
Careeronestop
This site, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, has a searchable data base containing more than 5,000 scholarships, fellowships, loans, and other financial aid opportunities.
AidScholar
Looks to be very easy and quick to use.
AdventuresinEducation
Students can conduct a keyword search of a data base containing 10,000 scholarships.
CareersandColleges
Using data provided by Wintergreen Orchard House, their data base includes 1.7 million scholarships worth a total of $7 billion.
College Answer
Sponsored by SallieMae, they use the Scholarship Experts data base.
CollegeBoard Scholarship Search
The College Board’s free scholarship search utilizes a database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding totaling almost $3 billion in scholarships and aid.
CollegeData
Scholarship search service sponsored by 1st Financial Bank.
CollegeFunds
Their website says, CollegeFunds.net helps you hunt down the most ideal student loan, scholarships and other financial aid resources available to you!
College in Colorado
If you’re considering a college in Colorado, you might strike gold here.
CollegeExpress
Scholarship info and other services.
CollegeScholarships.org
ran by a non-profit organization.
CollegeToolKit
These folks allow you to search for scholarships by geography, heritage, religion, extracurriculars, family affiliation, high school, or scholarship name.
Discover Nursing Scholarship Search
If you are or will be studying nursing, give this free scholarship search a try. You will probably find more nursing scholarships here than in any other source.
DiversityAbroad
International scholarships and fellowships.
eCampusTours
The eCampusTours search uses a database of more than 10,000 scholarship programs that distribute awards worth more than $36 million.
Financial Aid Officer
This free scholarship search engine lists scholarships worth $1.45 billion.
FastAid
These folks say they are, “The World's largest and oldest private sector scholarship database.
FastWeb
One of the older, larger, scholarship search sites.
FindTuition
This free scholarship search site lists $24 billion in scholarships.
Find the Right Scholarship
Scholarship search run by CollegeBound.
FreeScholarshipSearch
This site doesn't list as many scholarships as some sites, but it's very well done and lists some awards not often found elsewhere.
Guaranteed-Scholarships
A list of scholarships offered by individual colleges, to all enrolled students meeting specified criteria.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Search for scholarships for Latino students.
ImmediateScholarships
In about 30 seconds this site will match students to scholarships worth between $500 and $50,000
InternationalScholarships
This scholarship search is fairly unique because it features scholarships for international students and scholarships for study abroad programs.
Joint Academic Scholarship Online Network
The introduction on their website says, “The scholarships in the database apply to Australian students wishing to study at home or abroad, and to international students wishing to study in Australia.”
MaineScholarshipSearch
State of Maine sponsors this online scholarship search.
MeritAid
A data base listing scholarships totaling billions of dollars.
Military.com
This site claims to help students find, “millions of dollars in scholarships and grants exclusively for the military community”.
MoolahSPOT
Their data base houses 3.2 million scholarships and grants.
myfreedegree
Their database contains, “billions of dollars of college scholarships and financial aid awards”, including some for bowlers, knitters, “C” students, cartoonists, etc.
NextStudent
According to their site, they give you free access to a database “of more than 42,000 college funding sources comprised of more than 2.4 million individually awarded scholarships valued at over 3.4 billion dollars.
The Scholarship Page
Started by a student in 1997, this site primarily featured engineering scholarships, but has since expanded to include others.
Scholarships.com
This site claims a scholarship database of 3,0000 sources worth up to $3 billion.
Scholarships101
A listing of over 800,000 individual scholarship awards valued at more than $2.8 billion.
ScholarshipsCanada
These folks call their site “Canada's most comprehensive scholarship portal”.
CanLearn
Another Canadian free scholarship search site.
Hotcourses
Student Money - A UK based scholarship search.
Princeton Review
A data base containing over 3 million scholarships.
Scholarship Hunter
Not a great looking site, but a search here might be worth a try.
ScholarSite
Their introduction reads, “Welcome to ScholarSite.com, the site that allows you to search for scholastic financial aid quickly and accurately, without forcing you to lose time and privacy by entering personal information.”
School Soup
Their scholarship data base lists $32 billion in scholarships.
StudentAidontheWeb
A U.S. Department of Education sponsored free online scholarship search.
Study Abroad Funding
Their website says, "Our comprehensive database of study abroad scholarships, fellowships, and grants can help make your dream of studying abroad a financial possibility and a profound reality." Scholarship searches can be conducted by country or subject.
Student Awards
Just register and search.
SuperCollege
An online scholarship search sponsored by Harvard educated folks who publish books on college planning.
Tuition Funding Sources
The name says it.
United Negro College Fund Scholarship Search
A free online scholarship search sponsored by the United Negro College Fund.
Zinch
There is no indication how large their data base is.
CollegeNet/Mach 25
Allows you to search through 600,000 awards for scholarship matches.
Nationally Coveted Scholarships and Fellowships
Not really a scholarship match program but a very good site that lists undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral awards.
International Education Financial Aid
The IEFA website was created to be a resource for financial aid, college scholarship and grant information for US and international students wishing to study abroad.
Pacific Northwest Scholarship Guide
A free online scholarship match program maintained by the nonprofit College Planning Network, serving students of the Pacific Northwest.
National Data Base of Scholarships
This free scholarship search sites claims to list scholarships worth more than 10 billion dollars.
Scholarship Spotlight
They claim to have the data base with the greatest number of scholarships.
Student Scholarships
They say they have "the largest scholarship database on the web", a claim that others make as well.
Nerd Scholar
Scholarship searches and other info for students.