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
- Ankin Law Disabled Veterans Scholarship
- Army Scholarship Foundation
- Council of College and Military Educators
- Grants for Military
- Help-A-Hero Scholarship (Veterans of Foreign Wars)
- Military Order of the Purple Heart Scholarship Program
- NBC Partnership
- Operation Education: Helps Injured Vets Reach Their Goals
- Paralyzed Veterans’ Educational Scholarship Program
- Pat Tillman Foundation
- Scholarships and Financial Aid for Military and Veterans (via affordablecolleges.com)
- Scholarships Specific to Engineering Programs
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation
- Student Veterans of America
- The American Legion
- Volt Lighting Military Family Appreciation Scholarship
- Wells Fargo Scholarships
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
Additional Scholarships, Grants & Loans
| Air Force Aid Society | Air Force families can get information on tuition assistance and grant programs on their website. |
| American Association of University Women | Career Development Grants provide funding to women who hold a bachelor’s degree and are preparing to advance or change careers or reenter the workforce. Primary consideration is given to women of color and women pursuing their first advanced degree or credentials in nontraditional fields. |
| Army Emergency Relief | If you're a soldier's spouse or dependent, the Army Emergency Relief has scholarships and grants for you. |
| 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. |
| ThanksUSA Scholarship Program | ThanksUSA has awarded more than 3,400 scholarships totaling more than $10 million since 2006. If your spouse or parents are in the military, this is definitely a scholarship worth applying for. |
| 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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