Scholarships for Graduate Students
The University of Maryland financial aid website is an excellent place for Graduate Students to find out how to meet their educational costs. As you browse our site, you will find information about applying for student financial aid, available aid programs such as loans and Federal Work-Study, and costs. In addition to these options there are many scholarship/ fellowship opportunities graduate student may apply for. Please find a listing of these opportunities through the Graduate School website.
"Do-Over" Scholarship
Application Deadline: June 30, 2012
ScholarshipExperts.com is again offering the "Do Over" Scholarship and will award one recipient $1,500. Applicants must:
* Be thirteen (13) years of age or older at the time of application
* Be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia
* Be currently enrolled (or enroll no later than the fall of 2018) in an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education
* Submit an online short written response (250 words or less) for the topic: "If you could get one 'do-over,' in life, what would it be and why?"
4blackyouth.com Scholarships
Application Deadline: January 1, 2999
This site provides composite lists of both general scholarships and minority scholarships.
ASCO Numatics Industrial Automation Engineering College Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 25, 2012
ASCO Numatics will award two, $5,000 scholarships to U.S. engineering students who are pursuing careers in industrial automation-related disciplines. Additionally, ASCO Numatics will make $1,000 grants to the engineering departments of the colleges in which the winners are enrolled.
For the 2012-2013 school year, applicants must be enrolled full-time in an engineering, instrumentation, systems, electrical, mechanical, or automation discipline at an accredited U.S. educational institution. Applicants must be entering their junior or senior year in a four-year undergraduate degree program or enrolled in a graduate program. Students must also have at least a 3.2 GPA on a 4.0 scale and be a U.S. citizen or legal U.S. resident.
Campus Discovery $2,500 "Advice to Your High School Self" Scholarship
Application Deadline: July 31, 2012
CampusDiscovery.com is currently offering students a chance to win a $2,500 scholarship. Applicants must respond to the scholarship topic, "Assume you could go back in time and talk to yourself as a high school senior. Knowing what you know now about college life and making the transition, what advice would you give yourself?".
Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship
Application Deadline: July 15, 2012
Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program
The Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program is designed to provide financial assistance to sons and daughters of deceased, missing in action or prisoner of war United States armed forces personnel, sons and daughters of deceased public safety personnel, surviving spouses who have not remarried of deceased public safety personnel, disabled public safety personnel and sons, daughters and/or surviving spouses of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, attending a Maryland postsecondary institution.
Kids' Chance Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 1, 2999
Kids' Chance is offering scholarships for students between the ages of 16-25, who have a parent that has been catastrophically injured or killed in an employment-related accident in Maryland. The parent's death or injury must have resulted in a substantial decline in the family income.
Kids' Chance of Maryland, Inc. P.O. Box 20262 Towson, MD 21284-0262 www.kidschance-md.org 410-832-4702 Fax: 410-832-4726
Scholarship Points Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 31, 2012
This scholarship program is open to all U.S. students attending college at least half time during the academic year.
Smithsonian Institution
Application Deadline: January 1, 2999
Various fellowships allowing for the opportunity to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff.
The Rising Farmworker Dream Fund
Application Deadline: January 1, 2999
The Rising Farmworker Dream Fund (RFDF) is proud to announce its annual scholarship program for students pursuing an MBA degree. Awards range from $1,500 to $10,000 for those pursuing admissions at a top 30 MBA program in 2010 (Class of 2013). Money and resources are also available for those candidates planning to apply within the next 5 years as well as those wishing to purse an MBA program not on the top 30 list.