The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Scholarship 2010

The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding, low income African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American*, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in any discipline area of interest. Continuing Gates Millennium Scholars may request funding for a graduate degree program in one of the following discipline areas: computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence by providing thousands of outstanding students, who have significant financial need, the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The GMS program offers leadership development programs with distinctive personal, academic and professional growth opportunities including mentoring services and an online resource center that provides up-to-date information on internship, fellowship and scholarship opportunities, as well as graduate and post-graduate resources and conferences.

The Gates Millennium Scholars 2010 Nomination Process has launched.
The submission deadline is January 11, 2010 (11:59 p.m. EST).

For more information on the eligibilities and application procedures, click on the link below:
The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Scholarship 2010 Online Nominations

United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Scholarship Programs

The Program Services Department administers various scholarship programs. Each program has its own eligibility criteria, open/close dates and required documents. In order to apply for a UNCF Program Services Scholarship, you must apply through the online application process. The below is the list of all programs currently accepting applications.

To Apply for any of the below scholarships, click one of the scholarships listed below for the eligibility requirements and link to the online application:

•   AFSCME/UNCF/Harvard University LWP Union Scholars Program 2009
•   ALDI/UNCF Corporate Scholars Program
•   AT&T Foundation Scholarship 2010-11
•   CDM Internship & Scholaship Program 2009-10
•   Chevron Texaco Scholarship 2009-2010
•   Cisco Systems Scholars Program
•   Dallas Independent School District Scholarship 09/10
•   EMC/UNCF STEM Scholars Program 2009-2010
•   Fort Worth Independent School District Scholarship 09/10
•   Gap Scholarship 09/10
•   Greyhound Lines, Inc. Scholarship
•   HSBC "Go Forward" Scholarship Program 2009-2010
•   HSBC Emergency Financial Assistance Program 2009-2010
•   Intel Scholarship Program - 2010
•   Jack & Jill of America Foundation 2009-2010
•   Liberty Mutual Scholarship Program
•   Malcolm Pirnie Corporate Scholars Program 2010
•   Marriott Scholars Program 2010
•   NAACP - Earl G. Graves Scholarship - 2010
•   NAACP - Hubertus W.V. Willems Scholarship for Male Students - 2010
•   NAACP - Roy Wilkins Scholarship Program - 2010
•   NAACP - The Lillian & Samuel Sutton Education Scholarship - 2010
•   NAACP/The Agnes Jones Jackson Scholarship - 2010
•   National City Scholarship 09/10
•   Oracle/UNCF Corporate Scholars Program 2009
•   Ronald H. Brown Summer Law School Prep Program 2010
•   T-Mobile/UNCF Internship Program 2010/11
•   Toyota/UNCF Scholarship 2009-10
•   Turn 2 Foundation/Sharlee Jeter Scholarship 2010
•   UNCF General Scholarship 2009/2010 Academic Year

If you are a student attending a UNCF member college or university, it is highly recommended that you also complete the UNCF General Scholarship Application. This application process nominates a UNCF student searching for scholarship assistance. Once a student completes the application, the information will be used to match you to many of the specific programs administered by UNCF. The General application, however, does not apply to scholarship programs that require a separate application.

For more information about United Negro College Fund (UNCF ) Scholarship Programs for Students.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) - Available Scholarship Opportunities

HSF was founded in 1975 as a not-for-profit, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the US prominent Latino scholarship organization, providing the Latino community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country.

In its 33-year history, HSF has awarded in excess of 86,000 scholarships, worth more than $250 million, to Latinos attending nearly 2,000 colleges and universities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Scholarship Programs

The followings are the scholarship programs under Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF):

1. College Students
    * Be a community college, undergraduate or graduate student
    * Be a U.S. citizen or an eligible non-citizen
    * Have plans to enroll FULL-TIME in a degree seeking program at a two or four year U.S. accredited institution in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands or Guam in the upcoming academic year.
    * Be pursuing first undergraduate or graduate degree

2. Community College Transfer Students
    * Be enrolled PART-TIME or FULL-TIME at a community college
    * Be a U.S. citizen or an eligible non-citizen
    * Have plans to transfer and enroll FULL-TIME in a degree-seeking program at a four-year U.S. accredited institution in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands or Guam in Fall 2010.

3. High School Students
    * Be a graduating high school senior
    * Be a U.S. citizen or an eligible non-citizen
    * Have plans to enroll FULL-TIME in a degree seeking program at a two or four year U.S. accredited institution in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands or Guam in the upcoming academic year.

4. Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS)
    * Be a graduating high school senior
    * Be enrolling for the first time at a college or university as a FULL-TIME degree-seeking freshman in the fall.
    * Be a U.S. citizen or an eligible non-citizen
    * Have a minimum GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale
    * Demonstrate leadership skills, and significant financial need (Pell Grant eligible)

Scholarship Applications for the 2010-2011 academic year are available until May 31, 2010.

Click here to read more about Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF)

The Khan Academy: Complete Resources for Learning

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

They have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance.

This is a website to visit and explore the opportunities: The Khan Academy's website

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School MBA Scholarships 2010

University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School offers a range of scholarships to candidates applying for the full-time MBA programme.

Scholarship Objectives
The aim of our scholarships is to attract the world’s best MBA students and to lower barriers to entry for those who may require financial assistance.

Scholarship Details
We offer the scholarships (50% of the full-time MBA tuition fees) based on a combination of merit and financial need. Each award is valued at approximately €15,000. 

4 x GMAT scholarships – open to all applicants scoring above 700 on the GMAT
1 x “Ideas for the Future” – open to all applicants and awarded to the candidate who best exemplifies creativity in business
6 regional merit based scholarships
Region 1: Asia and Australasia
Region 2: Central and Eastern Europe
Region 3: North and Central America
Region 4: Western Europe
Region 5: Middle East and Africa
Region 6: discretionary

Note: All scholarship applicants must already have been admitted to (have applied for, been interviewed and offered a place on) the full-time MBA Programme before they can be considered for a scholarship.

Deadline: The closing date for scholarship applications is March, 26 2010. However, the school reserves the right to award some GMAT and regional scholarships to exceptional applicants in advance of this date.

How to apply?
Applicants will need to include in their application a 200-300 word essay on why they feel they deserve a scholarship.

For the “Ideas for the Future” scholarship, an additional 300-500 word essay is required detailing the best idea the applicant has ever had for business and how this will impact the next generation.

Click below for further information and application:
University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School MBA Scholarships 2010