While your college years can be some of the best of your life, they often come with a pretty hefty price tag. Making the move to college can be difficult because students need to budget for the transition to living away from the home they grew up in. To make things even trickier, college is…
Ranks #1 Score: 93/100 Bold.org ranked first on our list of the best scholarship platforms, with a total score of 93 out of 100. Bold is a brand-new platform that takes a radically different approach to the scholarship search and application process. Rather than just providing a list of the various scholarship opportunities that are…
HONORABLE MENTION Ranks #2 Score: 86/100 Pros: Most comprehensive scholarship database. Protects your data. Easy user experience. No ads or unrelated offers. Scholarships matched to you. Cons: Funding isn’t exclusive to platform. Applications are off-site. The Bottom Line: Sallie Mae is the place to start if you’re looking for scholarships. Use their comprehensive scholarship search…
Peterson’s is perhaps best known as a publisher of educational materials, including test prep books and guides to colleges, financial aid, and careers. Besides their print and online publications, they also offer a modern, easy-to-use scholarship search tool, which scored 73 out of 100 across our metrics. This can be accessed without having to create…
Fastweb is one of the best known scholarship search websites, and it earned a solid score of 71 out of 100. Founded in 1995, Fastweb prides itself on being the original college scholarship search website. With decades of experience, Fastweb is a well-respected search engine that has certainly adapted with the times. Currently, Fastweb’s database…
Cappex is another well-established scholarship search engine, and it has an extensive database with links to over $11 billion in total funding. The registration process is fairly straightforward, allowing students to find relevant opportunities by expanding their profiles. However, although the Cappex site is modern and user-friendly, it does contain numerous banner advertisements and frequent…
CollegeXpress is another platform that primarily functions as a search engine, albeit one with access to a scholarship database purportedly worth $7 billion. In order to view the database, users are required to register and fill in information about their graduation year, age, and home address. CollegeXpress is upfront in admitting that users’ information with…
Our scoring system awarded a score of 62 out of 100 to StudentScholarshipSearch.com. In terms of user experience, this website does feel rather dated, especially when compared to the sleek, modern platforms that have clearly invested heavily in product design. The main feature of StudentScholarshipSearch.com is a Scholarship Matcher that asks users to input only…
Although Niche primarily focuses on ranking and reviewing colleges, companies, neighborhoods, and K-12 schools, the company also has a free scholarship search tool. Students can search the scholarship database and filter the listings by major, state, special categories, easy-to-apply scholarships, and more. Niche offers quite a few of its own awards, such as the “$2,000…
Known to the world from its appearance on Shark Tank, Scholly is one of the few platforms we analyzed that requires users to pay for access to its scholarship search tool ($44.99/year). This is somewhat surprising, considering that Scholly is quite similar to several of the free platforms we looked at, as its main purpose…
With around $3.6 million in scholarships, Unigo has a large pool of opportunities available to students who create a free account and complete a detailed profile. Unigo requires students to complete five pages of questions in order to access their scholarship matches. Unigo publicizes a number of its own scholarships, which seem to be fairly…
According to Scholarships.com, the platform features some 3.7 million scholarships and grants, amounting to around $19 billion in financial aid. Although it does feature some banner ads and is not the most modern-looking platform, Scholarships.com is actually very straightforward to use. In contrast to many of the other platforms we scrutinized, which have lengthy registration…