SCHOLARSHIP

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A 'scholarship' is an award of access to an institution, or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar, for the purpose of furthering their education. Scholarships are awarded based on a range of criteria which usually reflect the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.

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Types of scholarships

Famous scholarships

See also

References

Types of scholarships

Scholarships may be classified into the following primary groups.

★ 'Merit-based' - financial aid for which financial need is not used to determine the recipient. The recipient may be determined by students’ athletic, academic, artistic or other abilities. The actual monetary value of the scholarship may be negligible, the scholarship being meant to motivate the student and promote the study of the subject. However, this is not always the case and the largest scholarships are almost always merit-based.

★ 'Athletic' - In the U.S. and other countries athletes who perform well in various athletic endeavors are offered athletic scholarships.

★ 'Need-based' - financial aid for which the student and family’s financial situation is a primary factor in determining the recipient. Usually such scholarship will cover all or part of the tuition and may even cover living-costs. Very often even need-based private scholarships require the awardees to be distinguished students, as the deed founding the award may include a phrase like: “for the studies of ''founder's favourite subject'' in ''founder's favourite institution of higher education'' for a talented youths of limited means from ''founder's home town/county/state etc.''“

★ 'Ethnicity-based' - financial aid where applicants must initially qualify by race, religion, or national origin. After filtering the applicants based on their ethnicity, additional factors are taken into consideration to determine the final recipients.

★ 'Institutional-based' - scholarships awarded by a specific college or university (institution) to a student planning to attend that institution.

★ 'General' - Other scholarships which are awarded for a variety of reasons which do not fall into one of the above categories. These may be for reasons of the student's association with the objectives of the sponsoring organization. For example, some corporations give scholarships to their employees' children.
Some scholarships have a "bond" requirement. Recipients may be required to work for a particular employer for a specified period of time, or to work in rural or remote areas; otherwise they may be required to repay the value of the support they received from the scholarship. This is particularly the case with teacher training scholarships and currently with health and medical education scholarships for people from or prepared to work in rural and remote areas in Australia. The programs offered by the uniformed services of the United States (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, National oceanic and atmospheric administration commissioned corps, and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps) sometimes resemble such scholarships.

Famous scholarships

★ America's Junior Miss

★ Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation

★ Canadian Millennium Scholarship

★ Chevening Scholarship

★ Commonwealth Scholarship

★ Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange

★ Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund

★ Fulbright Program

★ Gates Scholarship

★ George J. Mitchell Scholarship

★ Goldman Sachs Global Leaders

★ Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

★ Kin Canada Bursaries

★ Marshall Scholarship

★ Miss America

★ National Merit Scholarship

★ Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

★ President's Scholar

★ Rhodes Scholarship

★ Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship

★ Samsung Global Scholarship Program

★ Truman Scholarship

★ United Negro College Fund

★ World Bank Scholarship

See also

★ Demyship

★ Exhibition

★ Financial aid

★ Endowment

★ Athletic scholarship

References

DiFiore, Laura, et al. "Tips on Finding Scholarships." ''FreSch! Free Scholarship Search.'' 1997.