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Financing: Resources for Funding Graduate Education
Online Resources
- FastWEB - For graduate fellowship/scholarships. Takes about 20 minutes to fill out individual profile that then enables FastWEB to search for scholarships based on specific majors, heritage, etc. FastWEB completes the results of the financial-aid search in approximately 5 minutes.
- Supplemental Sources of Financial Aid for Minority Students and Women
- National Association of Graduate and Professional Studies (NAGPS) - Includes information on taxes, financial aid, benefits of NAGPS membership, including grad student discounts, and NAGPS regional/national conferences.
- Thomson Peterson's Graduate School Planning
- FinAid!
- Financial Aid for Graduate School - Options and tips for funding a postgraduate education, GRE information, admissions testing, scholarships and fellowships.
- Financial Aid for Business School - Awards, loans, and advice specific to M.B.A. students, admissions testing, M.B.A. Explorer, GMAT, loans.
- Law School - Awards, loans, and advice specific to law students, LSAT, admissions testing, Law School Admission Council Online.
- Medical School - Loans, professional organizations, and other resources specific to medical students, admissions testing page.
- Pre-Med Advisor - financial aid for medical school, MCAT.
- Take the GMAT - The Graduate Management Administration Council (GMAC) provides tips on financial your M.B.A., as well as information about graduate business schools, admissions and testing.
- The Foundation Center - If you're a student or parent seeking scholarship information, an educational institution looking for funding, or a nonprofit organization supporting education in your community.
- Tech Learning - Funding tips and resources
- Education World - Offers some terrific links to free information on how to secure the right loan or find the perfect scholarship or grant, and some great general information sites.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) - Government-wide compendium of all 1,499 Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. These programs provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, services, information, scholarships, training, insurance, etc., to millions of Americans every day.
Career Development Center Career Resource Library
- Peterson's Grants for Graduate Students
- The Graduate Scholarship Book
- The International Scholarship Book
- A Selected List of Fellowship Opportunities and Aids to Advanced Education
- The Official Guide to Financing Your MBA
- Other directories on specific programs
DeWitt Wallace Library Reference Resources
- The Graduate Scholarship Book: The Complete Guide to Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans for Graduate and Professional Study
- The Annual Register of Grant Support
- Foundation Grants to Individual
- The Foundation Directory
- Directory of Financial Aids for Minorities
- Directory of Financial Aids for Women
- Scholarships and Grants for Study or Research in the USA: A scholarship Handbook for Foreign Nationals
- The International Scholarship Book: The Complete Guide to Financial Aid for Study Abroad
- Financial Resources for International Study: A Definitive Guide to Organizations Offering Awards for Overseas Study
- Graduate school catalogues on microfiche--available in the lower level.
Additional Resources
- Don’t Miss Out: The Ambitious Student’s Guide to Financial Aid, $10.00, Octameron Associates, PO Box 2748, Alexandria, VA 22301.
- Graduate cooperative Education Programs, free, National commission for Cooperative Education, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
- Foundation Grants for Individuals (in your local library).
- Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations (in your local library).
- America's Largest Corporations
- Corporate Foundations Profiles
- Corporate Tuition Aid Programs
- Directory of Special Programs for Minority Members
- Financial Resources for International Study
- Funding for U.S. Study--A Guide for Foreign National
- Grants Register
- Reference books and computerized databank, Grant Guides through the Foundation Center (70 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, New York, 10003)
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