college scholarships

A host of websites exist to steer parents toward private- and government-sponsored student loans, grants and scholarships. Here are five notable sites to help cut through college aid information overload.

We all heard that employers are checking out the Facebook pages of prospective hires. High schoolers and their parents need to know that the folks who hand out scholarships are checking social media sites too.

With student loan debt at a trillion dollars and rising, it's no surprise that more students are searching for creative ways to finance their college educations. Alltuition and CollegeNET are among the companies that want to help.

As the new school year begins, many parents' thoughts may be turning to a future of appallingly pricey college tuition payments. So we thought now would be a good time to tap an expert for advice on how to bring those costs down. Here's what we learned:

From online databases to essay-writing tips, college scholarship expert Mark Kantrowitz, founder of free scholarship-matching service Fastweb.com, has scads of advice for the many ways students can boost their odds of winning money to pay for college.

The fun people at Groupon are at it again, offering a college scholarship to the offspring of a couple who use the company's coupon on a first date. That's got to be an awkward first date: Using a coupon, or Groupon as the company calls it, and then taking a photo on that first date with that...

Single moms may be put off by the idea of returning to school because the expense of raising a child can be overwhelming. But, if going back to school were free, or cost close to nothing, it may be a different story. That's practically a reality thanks to an enormous amount of scholarships...

Today, Money College introduces Susan Beacham to our team. A national expert on money and family finance, she is the founder of Money Savvy Generation, which has helped more than 1 million kids get smart about spending, saving, investing and donating. Her monthly column for Money College is "The...

Detroit's Justin Bullock must know what it's like to win the lottery. Except for the Renaissance High grad, it's his talent, and not luck, that led to him being offered a total of $1.8 million in scholarships. The 17-year-old not only was recently awarded a Gates Millennium Scholarship to pay for...