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Types of Financial Aid for Graduate Students
Trying to figure out how to pay for grad school? There are several options that a grad student can consider to finance their education. Learn about the different types of financial aid offered to graduate students.
Types of Loans
Most graduate students pay for their education through loans. Therefore, it is essential that you learn about the different loans that you can receive.
Study Abroad with an Ambassadorial Scholarship
If you're looking for funding to study abroad, consider an Ambassadorial Scholarships from the Rotary Foundation.
The Teaching Assistantship: Your Ticket to Graduate School
Any grad student will tell you that grad school is expensive. Get funding and valuable experience as a teaching assistant, or T.A.
Fast Web
Free Scholarship search engine that finds scholarships matched to your specific interests, needs, and wants. Access to over 1.3 million scholarships. Applications for many scholarships are available. Additionally, sends emails about deadlines and new scholarships.
FinAid
Provides a Free Scholarship search engine and as well as information on loans, savings, military aid, and financial help.
Fast Aid
Scholarship website from the authors of "The Scholarship Book;" includes a Free Scholarship Search Engine.
Scholarships.com
Free Scholarship search engine that helps you find various scholarships that are matched on your interests, abilities, and wants. The scholarship database currently includes 3,000 different sources and is updated frequently.
CollegeNET
Provides a Free Scholarship Search Engine, Financial Aid information, and a college search engine. Allows you to search for specific scholarships using the keyword search engine or for scholarships that are matched on your qualifications using the profile search engine. Additionally, CollegeNET.com offers a $10,000 essay scholarship annually.
GoCollege
Provides a Free scholarship search engine and Financial Aid information. Database includes over 2.4 million awards. Scholarships are matched to your specific qualifications and offers the option to receive emails about newly posted scholarships.
College Board
Free Scholarship search engine that includes over 2,300 awards sponsored by Collegeboard.com. Find different scholarships, internships, loans, and grants that are matched to your abilties, qualifications, and needs. Additionally, Collegeboard.com offers information on financial aid and financing college.
Scholarship Experts
Free Scholarship search engine that offers over 2.4 million national and international scholarships. Find scholarships that are tailored to your specific qualifications. Also, provides you with the opportunity to apply directly for scholarships and save request letters online.
PrincetonReview.com Scholarship Search
Free Scholarship search engine provided by Princeton Review. Includes a database that offers thousands of valid and current scholarships. Scholarship search results are matched to your profile and can be saved for later use.
BrokeScholar
Free Scholarship search engine that matches scholarships to your needs and wants. Database includes 650,000 awards. Offers the ability to search quickly and easily, organize search results, and receive emails about new awards.
FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Free Application for Federal Student Aid – The official FAFSA website that allows you to apply for federal financial aid online. Additionally, offers assistance with the FAFSA application form and the ability to check your application status.
Federal Student Aid
Government owned website that helps you and your parents prepare for financing your college experience; offers information for graduate and international students as well. Provides information on Financial Aid and budgeting your expenses.
EduPrep Scholarship Search
Offers a Free Scholarship search engine that includes a database with over 2.5 million awards and frequently updated. Also, offers information on the Federal PLUS loan.
CollegeView
Offers Information on applying for Financial Aid and provides assistance with the FAFSA form. Helps students budget their expenses and find the right financial aid package and loans.
SuperCollege.com
Offers a Free Scholarship search engine with over 400,000 awards and information on Financial Aid for all types of students - undergrad, grad, international, and adult students.
Student Awards
A Free Scholarship Search Engine that finds scholarships matched to your profile. Includes a Canadian version website and a U.S. version website.
Scholarship Resource Network (SRN) Express
A Free Scholarship Search Engine that offers over 150,000 different awards for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Nationally Coveted Scholarships
Provides a list of various Scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students. The list also includes fellowships, internships, and loans.
Careers and Colleges
Provides a Free Scholarship Search Engine that includes over 1.7 million awards. Also offers the option to search for minority scholarships, loans, and grants.
Financial Aid Resource Center
The Financial Aid Resource Center provides information on applying for loans and financial aid for undergraduate, graduate, international, adult, and disabled students. Also includes information on federal and state assistance, work programs, tax incentives and various financial calculators.
NextStudent
NextStudent.com is a website primarily devoted to helping students find the right loans. However, they also offer a Free Scholarship search engine with over 2.4 million awards and information on Financial Aid. Geared towards high school students, parents, undergraduate students, college graduates, and graduate students.
College Scholarships
College-Scholarships.com provides links to various Scholarship and Financial Aid websites for students and parents.
e Student Loan
A website dedicated to finding the perfect Loan. Helps you find loans that are suited to your needs and allows you to compare the different loans being offered. Additionally, students have the opportunity to apply for loans directly online.
Graduate Student Loan Funding
Includes information on financial aid, financing and budgeting graduate school, loans, loan repayment, and offers various loan applications for graduate students.
SallieMae Loans
Sallie Mae's official website for Loans. Both undergraduate and graduate students can get information on loans, applying for loans, and managing and repaying your loans. SalleMae.com also offers information on financial aid and paying for college.
College Answer
CollegeAnswer.com, a website produced by SallieMae, helps students prepare for college. Offers various information on loans, financial aid and budgeting your expenses. Additionally, offers a Free Scholarship search engine that has over 2.4 million scholarships. Search results are customized to the information that is entered in your profile.
American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women offers various Fellowships and Grants for graduate female students studying nationally or abroad. Also offers fellowships for international female graduate students wishing to study in the U.S.
International Education Financial Aid
Offers a Free Scholarship search engine and Financial Aid information for International students. Offers a basic keyword scholarship search or the option to browse through current scholarships. International Students may be students from other countries wishing to study in the U.S. or students from the U.S. wishing to study abroad.
International Scholarships
A Free Scholarship search engine provided by IEFA.com. Scholarships are tailored to U.S. students wishing to study abroad or international students wishing to study in the U.S. InternationalScholarship.com offers a premium scholarship search engine that finds scholarships matched to your qualifications. They also offer financial aid information.
FinancialAid.com
A website that provides information on financing college and information on applying for loans. Also offers a Free Scholarship search engine that includes a database with over 150,000 awards.
Smart Student’s Guide to Financial Aid
Offers a set-by-step guide to loans, scholarships, and other types of aid.
Grants in Graduate Studies
This database lists grants for graduate and post-graduate students provided by government and private funding agencies.
Graduate Fellowship Notebook
Maintained by Cornell, this database provides information on graduate fellowships for all disciplines.

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