External Military Scholarships
Many organizations offer scholarships to assist veterans and their families with the cost of college. Explore the links below to learn more.
Military Scholarships
- Allied Military Scholarship
- Army Scholarship Foundation
- Comcast/NBC
- Council of College and Military Educators
- Grants for Military
- Help-A-Hero Scholarship (Veterans of Foreign Wars)
- HotelPlanner Tech scholarship
- Operation Education: Helps Injured Vets Reach Their Goals
- Paralyzed Veterans’ Educational Scholarship Program
- Pat Tillman Foundation
- Purple Heart Scholarship
- Scholarships and Financial Aid for Military and Veterans (via affordablecolleges.com)
- Scholarships Specific to Engineering Programs
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation
- Spouse scholarship
- Student Veterans of America
- ThanksUSA (under spouse and dependent children)
- The American Legion
- Wells Fargo Scholarships
- Education Connection
- Trade and Nursing Scholarships for Veterans
Surviving Spouse or Child
- Fisher House-Heroes Legacy (deceased or disabled)
- Freedom Alliance (children of a deceased or disabled veteran)
- Humble Heroes
- National Military Family Association
- Paralyzed Veterans’ Educational Scholarship Program (spouse or dependent)
- Veterans United Foundation Scholarship
- Trade and Nursing Scholarships for Military Families
Additional Scholarships, Grants & Loans
Air Force Aid Society | Air Force families can get information on tuition assistance and grant programs on their website. |
Coast Guard Mutual Assistance | Coast Guard families get a similar deal: check out the loans and grants Coast Guard Mutual Assistance offers you. |
Defense Commissary Agency | There's a scholarship at every commissary just waiting for students to apply. |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | If either or both of your parents are an active, deceased or honorably discharged Marine, the foundation might have you covered. |
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society | Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Sailors, Marines and their family members can apply for scholarships and no-interest loans from the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. |
Navy SEAL Foundation | If you or anyone in your family is a member of the Naval Special Warfare community, you could be eligible for a grant. |
The Folded Flag Foundation | The Folded Flag Foundation offers scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the United States military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident related to U.S. combat operations. |
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