Funding College Education
Hey students! Worried how to fund your education? Not aware of the various sources of finances? Not to worry! Find below the various sources of finance you can use to get the money to sponsor your college expenses.
Different ways to get the money you need for college expense
- Pell Grant Federal Aid for low income students
- Federal Supplement Educational Opportunity Grant for students with exceptional financial need.
- National SMART Grant available to students who in their final year of college carry a GPA of more than3.0
- Scholarships and Grants offered to students by various government and private organizations satisfying certain conditions.
- Academic competitiveness grants available to all first year and second year students carrying a GPA of 3.0 and more
- Anita Borg Scholarship for young female techies
- IEEE computer society scholarship for junior, senior and graduate students.
- Apple scholarship for high school seniors
- Microsoft Scholarship for undergraduate students
- Red Hat Scholarships for computer science students
- Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loans for all
- Federal parent PLUS Loans for parents of the students.
- Perkins Loan need based loan granted based on recommendations from the school of study
- Alternative or Private Student Loans
- Student sponsorship program by various private agencies
- Work- Study programs offered by Federal Government
- United States armed forces programs offering 100% fee waiver
- Tution payment plan
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Grand parents 529 Savings Plan
- Community service namely Peace Corps and AmeriCorps
- In-state scholarships offered by states
- Employer sponsored programs
- Individual savings and investment plans
- General organizational and professional financial aid
- Keep up good credit score and GPA; few schemes enhance the scholarship amount based on good work.
- Ask for more grants with the universities and college authorities they might consider your application based on your performance.
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Sally Croft 
October 17th, 2008 
8 Comments 
College Expense 
Check out your state’s programs- grants, scholarships, loans and loan forgiveness.
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