Department of Rehabilitation Services Education Benefits
Individuals who have a physical or mental disability, and have been approved for vocational training by the Department of Rehabilitation Services Education Benefits, may be eligible to receive financial assistance through the Department of Rehabilitation Services. Such individuals must demonstrate financial need, and assistance can be used at any accredited Illinois college or technical school.
| Individuals with a demonstrated financial need who have a physical or mental disability, and have been approved for vocational training by the Department of Human Services/Office of Rehabilitation, may be eligible.
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College Zone Rehabilitation Services Grant Info |
Other Scholarships and Grants
Illinois
- Illinois Mentor - This scholarship finder is sponsored by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission but is available to all current or college-bound students.
Federal
- Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)- Official site for the Department of Education Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Includes an online submission form with necessary documents, deadlines, eligibility, and general student aid information for college students.
- CareerInfoNet - This site, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, has a searchable data base containing more than 5,000 scholarships, fellowships, loans, and other financial aid opportunities.
- StudentAidontheWeb - A U.S. Department of Education sponsored free online scholarship search.
Scholarships Search
- www.srnexpress.com
- www.wiredscholar.com
- http://studentaid.ed.gov/
- FastWEB- Free, searchable database of schools, scholarships, fellowships, loans, and grants.
- FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - Comprehensive free resource for student financial aid information on the Web. Free scholarship search, financial aid calculators, glossary, and bibliography.
- Financial Aid Officer - This free scholarship search engine lists scholarships worth $1.45 billion.
- FindTuition - This free scholarship search site lists $24 billion in scholarships.
- FreeScholarshipGuide - These folks offer an online scholarship search and a free downloadable scholarship guide.
- FreeScholarshipSearch - This site doesn't list as many scholarships as some sites, but it's very well done and lists some awards not often found elsewhere.
- http://www.scholarshiphelp.org - Scholarship Help.
- ImmediateScholarships - In about 30 seconds this site will match students to scholarships worth between $500 and $50,000.
- MyFreeDegree - Our extensive database contains billions of dollars of college scholarships.
- Scholarship Central - This Thomson-Peterson’s scholarship search includes 1.7 million awards valued at approximately $8 billion.
- Scholarship Experts - It's no accident we're listing Scholarship Experts first. They are one of the best, most comprehensive free online scholarship searches available to students, parents, and educators.
- ScholarshipMonkey - claims a data base of one million scholarships with a value in excess of $3.5 billion.
- SRN Express - Quoting from their website, “Scholarship Resource Network Express contains a database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students worth a total of more than $35 million!”
- The Scholarship Page- Started by a student in 1997, this site primarily featured engineering scholarships, but has since expanded to include others.
- www.scholarships4me.com - Register to search millions of scholarships and grants for free.
College
- CareersandColleges - Using data provided by Wintergreen Orchard House, their data base includes 1.7 million scholarships worth a total of $7 billion.
- College Answer - Sponsored by SallieMae, they use the Scholarship Experts data base.
- CollegeBoard Scholarship Search - The College Board’s free scholarship search utilizes a database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding totaling almost $3 billion in scholarships and aid.
- CollegeFunds - Their website says, “CollegeFunds.net helps you hunt down the most ideal student loan, scholarships and other financial aid resources available to you!"
- Nelnet College Planning - A college planning site which includes a free scholarship finder.
- College Connection Scholarships - This service provides free scholarship searches and personalized scholarship application letters.
- CollegeToolKit - These folks allow you to search for scholarships by geography, heritage, religion, extracurriculars, family affiliation, high school, or scholarship name.
- eCampusTours - The eCampusTours search uses a database of more than 10,000 scholarship programs that distribute awards worth more than $36 million.
- GoCollege - Their search encompasses 800,000 individual awards worth over $2.8 billion in scholarships, and they say they maintain a strict privacy policy.
- CollegeNet/Mach 25 - Allows you to search through 600,000 awards for scholarship matches.
- ClubScholarship.com - Part of the Collegiatefunding.com network, ClubScholarships lists more than 500,000 awards to which students can seek a match.
- Scholarships.CareersandColleges.com - Register today to access to over $7 billion in scholarships and college grants for free.
Other Resource
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