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Financial Aid and Scholarships

Non-Institutional Scholarships

Non-institutional scholarships are outside scholarships that have no relation with USC. They are funded directly by businesses, agencies, organization, groups or individuals. 

Use Caution on Scholarship Sites

Find thousands of outside scholarships that can help you pay for college. As you search, keep in mind that scholarship search websites should not charge you to search. Also, be sure to consider if you want to receive mailing from groups who may buy your personal info like your name, email address or address from website owners. Below is a list of sites that you can use to search. 

AAHD's scholarship program supports students with disabilities in higher education. Preference is given to students who plan to pursue undergraduate/graduate studies in public health, health promotion or disability studies, including disability policy and disability research.

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This organization provides information about resources for Native Americans.

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The Archibald Rutledge Scholarship encourages and recognizes academic and artistic excellence; students compete for scholarships in creative writing, drama, music and visual arts. High school seniors enrolled in a South Carolina public school and planning to attend a state college or university are eligible to participate in the scholarship competition. Students receiving the scholarships must be United States citizens who have attended the state's public schools for the past two consecutive years.

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Coca-Cola Scholarships are awarded based on character, personal merit and commitment.

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This scholarship is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Giva's Corporate Student Scholarship and Worldwide Community Ambassador Award is for anyone attending a college or university worldwide. This scholarship grant is aimed at assisting undergraduate or graduate students further their education as well as expand their social responsibility and community service footprint in the world. There is no specific course of study or major required.

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The Greenwood Promise offers financial assistance for Greenwood County students in their junior and senior year of a bachelor's degree program in select majors. Applicants must be Life Scholarship eligible.

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This organization provides information for funding resources for Hispanic Americans.

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All applicants must have lost one or both parents by death, have financial need and plan to pursue a bachelor's degree.

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J.E. Sirrine Scholarships are available to high school graduates in the school district of Greenville County (South Carolina) and are based on financial need and academic ability.

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The Palmetto Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors is sponsoring a scholarship to assist undergraduate or graduate students seeking a Business or IT degree and interested in an Auditing career. This scholarship is a semester award of $1,000  for a total of $2,000. The awards will be deposited into the recipient’s scholarship account with the University.
The selected recipient will have the opportunity to work with the local IIA Palmetto Chapter to develop an on campus outreach to business students. This will provide valuable work experience and networking opportunities with current internal audit professionals.

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This link provides a list of some of the scholarship available from the UNCF.

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The Watson-Brown Foundation Inc. awards $3,000 and $5,000 renewable scholarships to high school seniors and current college undergraduates. To be eligible, students must be from Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Hart, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren or Wilkes counties in Georgia or Aiken, Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenville, McCormick or Spartanburg counties in South Carolina and plan to attend any four-year, accredited college in the country.

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Non-Institutional Scholarship Databases and Search Engines

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Complete the brief questionnaire, and Scholarship Search will find potential opportunities from their database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding, totaling nearly $3 billion in available aid!

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Large database of 375,000 scholarships

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One of the largest free online scholarship databases, with more than 1.6 million listed scholarships available

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