Most scholarships are awarded through individual colleges or universities. For those scholarships, go to the individual university website. This database lists national or local scholarships not restricted to attendance at a particular college. For your convenience, the financial aid websites for the Colorado Colleges and Universities are also included in the database and are listed below.
Colorado 4-year Colleges and Universities - links to financial aid websites for in-state schools
Colorado 2-year Colleges - links to financial aid websites for in-state schools
The main scholarship list and its monthly subsets below have only national and local scholarships that can be used at the college of your choice. The lists are far from complete and are being updated constantly, so dates and other information cannot be guaranteed. Check the website for the entry for the most recent information or with the Post Grad Center in the Counseling Office. All of these lists are searchable by keyword. See instructions below.
Main List - Scholarships listed here, alphabetically, are national or local scholarships not restricted to attendance at any particular college or university. Subsets of this list are grouped by deadline below.
To Find Scholarships By Application Deadlines:
To Find Scholarships by Keyword:
For any of these lists, you can search through the database using the "find on this page" command on the edit menu or, from the keyboard, press "F" while holding the "CTRL" key. Then type in the topic. For example, to find scholarships related to "music," hold "Ctrl," type "F," and then type "music" in the box that appears. This will take you to the first instance of "music" in the database. To find subsequent entries, press "next."
You may download an Excel spreadsheet containing the Fairview scholarship data. Save the file to your computer and make your own notes on scholarships of interest to you or delete records that are of no interest. Your edits will not affect the website files. Notice that the Excel workbook contains sheets for the full list and all the monthly deadline lists.
Additional Resources:
The first link below is to a list of websites with large searchable databases of scholarships that yield the most results without charging or tricking the user. The second document lists our evaluations of a large group of websites using test profiles.
Links to some scholarship databases - outside databases presented for your convenience
Results of our tests of scholarship database sites and hints for using the sites.