Private Scholarship Search Engines

GraduateTutor.com – GraduateTutor.com’s Scholarship Directory has $1.6 million worth of scholarships and is quickly growing. It is a free scholarship directory and requires no registration. Students can search for scholarships in multiple ways including keywords, courses, deadline, courses, who it is open to and the scholarship amount.

Careerinfonet.org – A U.S. Department of Labor sponsored free online scholarship search. Search more than 7,000 scholarships, fellowships, loans, and other financial aid opportunities.

College Answer – Sponsored by SallieMae, they use the Scholarship Experts data base.

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.

FastWeb.com – Helped 50 million students find money since the site was founded 15 years ago, was the first online scholarship matching service and the first free national scholarship matching service. Fastweb’s site indicates they currently have roughly 1.5 million scholarships worth $3.4 billion in their database.

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.

Scholarships.com – Quoting from their website, “Since our founding in 1998, Scholarships.com has helped students find money for college as well as learn about the entire financial aid process. Over the years, we’ve become one of the most widely-used and trusted free college scholarship search and financial aid information resources on the Internet and have been recognized by high schools, colleges and universities nationwide.”

United Negro College Fund Scholarship Search – A free online scholarship search sponsored by the United Negro College Fund.