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While Walmart is not known for its high-skills, high-paying jobs, it certainly gives away a lot of money to college students who strive to get that type of work. In 2009, the Walmart Foundation gave more than $53 million to fund educational programs nationwide, and it awarded more than $9 million...

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...

Florida students aiming for the state's "Bright Futures" scholarship, you better make sure you have good grades. And don't expect the scholarship to cover all of your college expenses. That's because, thanks to the recession, Florida lawmakers passed recent changes to cut state spending on the...

For college student Brandy Zapata, Kentucky Fried Chicken means more than finger-lickin' goodness. Winning a KFC scholarship can have more benefits than just paying for school. For Zapata, the Colonel's Scholars program offered her a chance to travel the world on a KFC scholarship. Her journey...

You could call it the summer job of your dreams: Get paid to live, work, and study at Disneyland. It's called the All-American College Band, and since the 1970s, it has attracted the brightest young musicians in the country, who are paid a stipend to come to Anaheim, California, learn the ropes...

Newspapers are fading from the media, and journalism scholarships for print-focused students are slowly heading down the same road. The evolving field forces students to no longer specialize in just writing. "The one-position journalist is dying, if not dead. Today's journalist must be able to...

With recent data showing current unemployment for workers 25 and under approaching "Great Depression" numbers, it should come as no surprise that more students are attending graduate school to delay entering the work force. A bachelor's degree is common, so a master's degree, theoretically, should...

Unlike other teenage guys who were more interested in video games than volunteering, Aaron Chadbourne was a kid who was active in his small town of Gorham, Maine. He got involved every way he could -- president of the National Honor Society, collecting Christmas gifts for his less-fortunate peers,...

In a time when even affluent families are struggling to send kids to college, merit based scholarships may be the only option for them. It is good to know that a hard working student can be rewarded with a college education that does not leave them deeply in debt. The National Merit Scholarship...

Ever since she watched an inner-city teacher change the lives of his calculus students in the movie "Stand and Deliver", Rita Soledad Fernandez knew she wanted to be a math teacher. "I see education as a way of social change," Fernandez said in an interview with WalletPop. "I wanted to teach...