Types of Financial Aid - Private/Corporate Grants and Scholarships
Private/Corporate Grants and Scholarships provide financial aid that does not have to be repaid. Some grants and scholarships require the student to maintain a certain grade point average (GPA) or take certain courses. Most grants are awarded on the basis of financial need.
This section of the site lists the Private/Corporate Grants and Scholarship programs available to students at Texas colleges and universities.
- Ag Day Essay Contest
- AGI Minority Geoscience Scholarship
- American Council of the Blind of Texas (ACBT) Scholarship
- Automotive Women's Network, Inc. - AWN Scholarship
- Best Buy Scholarship
- Business and Professional Women USA: Career Advancement Scholarships
- Discover Card Tribute Award Scholarship Program
- Duck Brand Duct Tape Stuck at Prom Contest - $2,500 Scholarship
- Educaid Gimme Five Scholarship
- Elder and Leemaur Publishers University Writing Scholarship
- Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund
- Fleetwood Foundation Scholarship
- Goldman Sachs Foundation Price for Excellence in International Education
- Government Finance Officers Association Scholarships
- Horatio Alger Association Scholarship Programs
- Idea of America Essay Contest ($5,000 Scholarship Contest)
- Jewish Guild for the Blind Scholarship Program
- Micron Science and Technology Scholars Program
- Microsoft College Scholarships
- MSDF Dell Scholars Program
- National Center for Learning Disabilities: Anne Ford Scholarship
- National Federation of the Blind-Scholarships for the Blind
- National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Inc. - George & Stella Knight Scholarship
- Optimist International Essay Contest - $2,000 to $5,000 Scholarship
- Ozarka Earth Science Scholarship
- RMHS National Scholarship Program
- SERTOMA Scholarship for the Hearing Impaired
- Society for Range Management (Texas Section)
- Society of Women Engineers (Scholarships for Women in Engineering)
- Sons of the Republic of Texas - Texas History Essay Contest
- Talbot's Women's Scholarship Fund
- Teenage Vision for America Essay Contest - $300 Scholarship
- Texas Historical Commission Fellows Program
- Texas Vegetation Management Association Scholarship
- The Tylenol Scholarship
- U.S. Rice Producers Association Rice Romp Essay Contest
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Essay Contest
- Weekly Reader Corporation Essay Contest
- Women Professionals in Government: Beverly Kaufman $1,000 Scholarship
- You Can Make a Difference Scholarship
- Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition