Scholarships for Minority Students

Resources for Parents and Students

Here is a list of organizations that offer scholarships to minority students.

Minority Resources

American Indian College Fund
The money raised by the American Indian College Fund is used to support student scholarships and other developmental needs at the nation's tribal colleges and universities across the United States. Free registration is required.
http://www.collegefund.org/

Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
This new national organization is devoted solely to the financial scholarship needs of Asian and Pacific Islander American students.
Applications are due in March each year.
http://www.apiasf.org/

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI)
General award information is available at http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/scholarship/scholarship.htm.

• National scholarships include those from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) as well as others available to all students attending, or planning to attend, any school in the United States. Amount of scholarship awards and application deadlines vary by organization.
  http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/scholarship/programs.htm
  
  
• Regional scholarships are for students attending certain colleges or who live in certain localities. Amount of scholarship awards and application deadlines vary by organization.
  http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/scholarship/programs.htm

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
LULAC offers two types of scholarships:

• LULAC National Scholarship Fund provides over $750,000 in to all levels of degrees. LULAC matches the money from corporate partners with students in need. Only students in areas with participating councils are eligible to apply. 
  Applications are due each year on March 31.
  http://www.lnesc.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={3AEDB506-F425-4E58-B9F6-44867E2FD943}
  
  
• GE Foundation/LULAC Scholarship helps outstanding minority students complete their college education. It provides $5000 scholarships to qualified minority students who are enrolled as business or engineering majors at accredited U.S. colleges or universities and will be college sophomores in the fall. 
  Applications are due on July 15.
  http://www.lnesc.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={3AEDB506-F425-4E58-B9F6-44867E2FD943}

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
NAACP provides links to numerous scholarship sites. Amount of scholarship awards and application deadlines vary by organization.
http://www.naacp.org/youth/scholarships/information/

National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education (NAAPE)
NAAPAE has established a scholarship fund with the donations from the National Education Association and the Southern California Edison Company. High school seniors and college juniors and seniors may participate in the scholarship program.
Applications are due each January 31.
http://www.naapae.net/scholarship.htm

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
This NCLR Web area provides opportunities to develop young Latino leaders, offering a variety of schooling opportunities—internships, training, and scholarships.
http://lideres.nclr.org/opportunities/?PHPSESSID=e8c803b2a9f700b73bb5ef804d48c636

NEA, the National Hispanic Press Foundation, & Others: Scholarships for Hispanics
This scholarship site links to more than 1,000 sources of college financial aid at the Hispanic Scholarship Directory Web site and includes college application guidelines and a scholarship database searchable by state, college, and field of interest. Free registration is required.
http://www.scholarshipsforhispanics.org/

National Urban League (NUL)
The National Urban League Scholarship Program offers college scholarships to help deserving African-American students attend some of our country's most influential and challenging institutions.
http://www.nul.org/scholarships.html

Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)
The OCA manages four scholarships:

• Gates Millennium Scholars for higher education scholarships for minority student leaders 
  
  
• Avon Foundation scholarship to fund college scholarships for Asian Pacific American (APA) women who will be entering their first year of college
  
  
• United Parcel Service Gold Mountain Scholarship, which focuses on APAs who are the first in their family to attend college
  
  
• Verizon Scholarship program for financially disadvantaged APA high school seniors
  http://www.ocanatl.org/bin/start/

United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) Scholarship Fund
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET), a non-profit, inter-tribal organization that collectively represents its member tribes at the regional and national level, has a scholarship fund.
www.usetinc.org/defaultpage.cfm?id=16

Selected General Resources on Higher Education

Colleges and Universities Worldwide
This site provides a list of college and university homepages with over 3,000 entries that may be searched alphabetically or geographically.
http://www.colleges.com/financialaid/scholarships/find_scholarship.taf

CollegeNET
This site provides information about U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. It is browsable by geography, tuition, and enrollment.
http://www.collegenet.com/

Community College Web
This site provides links to information about community colleges and related organizations, as well as an extensive, searchable collection of other links to over 485 community colleges.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/

Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Colleges and universities are listed by state on this Web site.
http://www.smart.net/~pope/hbcu/hbculist.htm

National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
This site offers IPEDS COOL (College Opportunities On-Line), a searchable database of over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States.
http://www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/