If you are just starting on the road of gathering info about grants and scholarships you are probably bombarded with a lot of different info or you just don`t know where to start. Everybody used to be in this spot so you will easily find someone to advise you and that is just what you should do, find people that know better, who have experience and who can advise you on what you could do to get a grant or scholarship.

One way to find people that know a thing or two about bursaries and grants is by going to student forums and asking questions about the issue that troubles you and reading about the experience of others. Don`t be afraid to contact users that seem to know more and ask for specific advice. As long as you will stick to the specific questions you will get help from most people.

One other option is to use Academic Counselor`s services. Every college has one and he can give you advice based on the results you have got so far. Counselors can describe what each college is like and what they are looking for in students that apply for grants. They are a good source of information, but you need to provide excellent info about what you are looking for, what your financial background is and what are your best results. You can even talk to them about the theme that you are thinking of approaching in your application essay.

If you want more info go directly at the University that you want to apply to and seek the advice of the counselors there. Tell a bit about your background and ask them for information about the policies of the University regarding people who apply for funding. They should be able to give you excellent, up to date info and it is a free kind of help.

Don`t forget that no matter how much advice you ask for much of the process is in your hands. A lot of students get grants without any kind of help because they do their research well and create excellent documentation. The best tactic is to combine great research with a healthy amount of help from other people.

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84 Responses to Where to get advice for applying for grants and scholarships

1. I’VE NOTICED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY SCHOLARSHIP FRAUDS IN EXISTENCE,MY QUESTION IS,IS IT PROPER TO PAY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP FORM?

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3. I APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED.I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO GO FOR HIGHER EDUCATION BUT THERE IS NO OPPORTUNITY HOW DO I GET IT.

4. am having an exchange here in university of eastern finland and would love to come back for the masters next year with a scholarship especially with the erasmus mundus scholarship.am studying forestry.is there a way that you can help me out or is there anything that i have to know about applying for that scholarship?

5. I want to be a proud beneficiary of your scholarship to your university.I am a youth from a poor background with a single parent.I am being taken care by my mother alone.I am a senior secondary school graduate of 2012.I am still in the house requesting for scholarship or financial aids for further education.I want to offer any coarse like ICT,public administration,public relation,law and legal studies,economics,geography or mathematics and statistics.Please I really need your help for my education either by scholarship or financially.Thanks and God bless you.Yours sincerely

   • Please Sir/Madam, I am currently a national service personnel with a bachelor of art in psychology with economics.How can i access a bursary to read clinical psychology at masters level?

6. Hi, am Okoye Jessica,am Nigerian,from a family of nine,due the financial problem in my family,i droped out of university.please i really need a scholarship to further my university education.i appriciate the good work of the organisation.Thanks

7. Good day sir,lam very happy because of your programs,l want to be a beneficiary of your scholarship to your university.lam a Nigerian.l have being looking for such opportunity so that my childhood dream of becoming a medical doctor can be achieved.

8. I am looking for scholarship opportunity to study Business Administration course in Uganda public university but not able due to financial constraints. Please help.

9. thank you very much

10. I am currently doing my Diploma in travelling and tourism at College Campus. I am in first year i will be doing my second year in 2014.My Parets doesn’t have money to pay my fees and i wonna finish my studies i am a hard worker. I am willing to get a bursary i don’t want my fanancial resources to keep me from my education opportunities should i be given the chance to be the reipient of your bursary programme, i will be very glad to accept it and pledge to do my very best to exceed your expectations to me i am a hard worker. I am hoping that this will merit your preferential attention. Thank you

11. iam a ugandan who has just completed a bachelors in accounting and i would request for a scholarship to further my studies to attain a masters in accounting.thank you very much

12. I’m from Namibia and struggling to find a Bursary abroad due to the fact that the countries I want to study in are better than my country in development and also that I want to experience the other side of the world…..please help me out

13. I hereby request for a bursary

14. Dear Sir,I would like to pursue A bachelor in Nursing but am financially handicapped,Ive many dependants,This academic year 2013/2014 I had been admitted at Mbarara University but I could not make it ,in case of any scholarship am willing to try next year
    yours kindly

    Tefula joel

15. Thank you for your valuable information which has inspired me to for grants. I trust that one day ,God will find an avenue for me . I am a teacher who had done first degree and is looking for scholarship to sponsor my masters degree.

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17. I had been admitted at West End University College,Ghana to read bachelor degree in General Nursing but my financial position is very very weak.Please help.

    Thanks and GOD bless you

18. dear sir,
    as i completed my under graduate degree in chemistry with 94%.i studied in dr.zahir hussain college.now im doing my PG in madurai kamaraj university now financially i thirved here is ther any scholarship available for me as im from muslim minority community plz tel me any loans/scholarship are available

19. Dear Sir, I am so happy to view this site,with great opportunity for students higher education and the grants.Is there any belated grants payed for my son’s MBA final?Please reply.Thanking you.

20. Please, i need a PhD scholarship in peace and security related studies or political sciences. I will be pleased to receive it. Thank you

21. I am from Sudan, from Blue Nile State. my region is one of the areas that torn by the ongoing civil war in the Sudan. as a result, I am forced to flee to the neighboring country South Sudan. I am a junior IT person. I need to continue my education but no fund for it. may I get guided on how to get some one to assist with a scholarship or sponsorship?

22. Dear Sir,I would like to pursue A bachelor in Nursing but am financially handicapped,Ive many dependants,This academic year 2013/2014 I had been admitted at Mbarara University but I could not make it ,in case of any scholarship am willing to try next year
    yours kindly

23. I here by request for a scholarship to complete my studies.Am a diploma holder from a government institution with a first class. I come from a poor background with no parent. I will be very grateful if my request meets your positive consideration.

24. how to apply sir.

25. I NEED MONEY GRANT FOR OPEN SMALL BUSSINES…WHO’S CAN TO HELP ME..???

26. Morning,
    I am a student just finish the second year and begin the third year from one university in my counytry, now to day i am looking for scholarship to continue with my education.
    Hoping to hear from you soon

27. thnks very much for the effort that your putting forward to help. am a ugandan and i finished my advanced level in the year 2011 and i was doing sciences. upt now am still at astruggle and i have not yet get a chance of accessing a scholarship. last year i applied at kyambogo university with the hope of getting some assistance but all in vain and i was given acourse of economics and statistic worth$624. thanks for your hand upon my education excellence and i pray that God hears my prayers.

28. Dir Sir.
    i am student just finish the second year doing electrical power engineering at university, i am looking for scholarship to finish my education.yours sincerely.

29. i finished my secondary education last year and hoping to get a scholarship to study abroad( Britain) into law so,i would like to be notified if such opportunity comes. thank you very much.

30. hey guys thanks for being helpful to us who we really need your help…. God will bless those who bless others. please do assist me with bursary because really my parents don’t have money for my school fees and I really have to get my future bright. Hope there will be a way soon.

31. I appreciate this information and the effort you have made.Iam 4th yr pursuing forensic science.Iam looking forward for schoolarship in masters for the same.Please assist.

32. I want to do a fashion designing degree. But I haven’t money to a private fashion designing degree. If you can help me to do that from provide money to it, it’s great. Please help me to go my aim.

33. Thank you very much.Am a bachelors degree holder and would request for a scholarship to do a masters in accounting and finance please help me for i do not have the funds please thank you in advance.

34. I want to be a proud beneficiary of your scholarship to your university.I am a youth from a poor background with a single parent.I am being taken care by my mother alone.I am a senior secondary school graduate of 2012.I am still in the house requesting for scholarship or financial aids for further education.I want to offer any coarse like ICT,public administration,public relation,law and legal studies,economics,geography or mathematics and statistics.Please I really need your help for my education either by scholarship or financially.Thanks and God bless you.Yours sincerely

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35. Thank you am an-enrolled nurse and would request fora-scholarship to do a diploma in nursing idon,t have funds and am an-orphan thank you.

36. im a second year student at one of the university in my country i request for scholarship to do environmental conservation

37. I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately.I just finished a five years undergraduate course last year 2012 and am currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps, but am seriously looking for a scholarship to go for my masters immediately. God bless you.

38. THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME GREAT GUIDES

39. iam an enrolled comprehensive nurse and would like to study a diploma or degree in midwifery.Please help me find an interested sponsor to fund me back to school.

40. thankyou for your reply.

41. I am a 3rd year student doing social work with unisa. I would like to work at the rural areas of the eastern cape where I come from, but I do not have funds to continue with my studies. will you please help me. now I reside in Gauteng.

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    We are looking for funders and donors whom we can partner with in terms of supporting such groups of people.

43. thank you very much for your information which has inspired me. i am a grade 12 leaner and am still busy with it . i request for a scholarship and financial assist, i really want to achieve my dream , so that i can help my family, with your help i can dig deeper to reach my hidden treasure.god bless you……

44. Am a student from Ghana who has just completed my Diploma in Accounting and i need a grant and a scholarship to further my education and there is no one to help finance my education because my both parents are not financially fit to support me. So i need someone who can really help me out.

45. thank you with the information provided i am currently styding BeD [teaching} at uj and i am in need of funds to further my studies if anyone can help me with any busary which meets my requirements your help will be highly appreciated please help

46. i would like u to help me on how i can apply for bursary my friend help me

47. how to apply for a scholarship?

48. I have a degree in Information technology and would like to do masters in in the same field but do not know what to do. please help me. I stay in Ghana and thank you very much for helping me.

49. like the others…..i’m also one of those who want to continue my studies torgh im still an undergraduate.Am i considered by your office

50. Thanks very much. Am a Human Rights Masters student at Makerere University in Uganda. Am about to present my research proposal and begin my research but i have financial constraints.Help me get research funds

51. am a student at makerere university kampala uganda pursuing a bachelor degree in development studies.am now in my third but due to competition a bachelor degree in not enough as far as my course is concerned.my request is if can get a free bursary to do masters in development studies. am on government sponsorship now

52. Thank you very much for scholarships but

    this is how to apply for a bursary or grant

    manisha kumari

    • Sir,
      I’m interested in doing entrance.my papa and mom leaved me nw.i want to study.i’m financially very poor now.pls help me by giving any good scholarship.i’m the only daughter and I belongs to obc category.pls help me by giving a scholarship for my studies.

    • thanks very much for the information you provide to people searching for a scholarships. Personally am looking for a scholarship to pursue my masters. Am a graduate of Food Processing Technology from Kyambogo Univerity,Uganda.

53. I am pursuing bsc.zoo looking for scholarships, looking for details information, thanks.

54. Thanks so very much for this grants you offer the needy. I went already for an interview at the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone- West Africa.
    I have been short listed to do a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, beginning 2013/14 academic year.
    My financial status is so patheic. I hope to receive a grant from you.
    Thanks

55. Gratitude towards your effort to move scholarship known to us. I was ever based in Northern Uganda where by my education was halted by the insurgencies which lasted for more than 20yrs. I am interested in doing Agriculture at the Certificate level but no chance. Could this one be my chance?

56. Thanks for that information please it will help me any time from now

57. DEAR SIR/MADAM

    I NDJWAKI WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR BURSARY OR SCHOLARSHIP

    I would like too..but i still dont how and where to start.if you let know the proceedure.

    NDJWAKI

58. I do i access this opportunity with ease? Am in kenya and need to further my studies. Currently i hold a diploma.
    Thanks

59. am yona,a ugandan.i lost ma dad at the beginning of the year and due to finance problems,i did not go for the second semester and i was requesting for your support in any way.i was doing a bachelor in economics and applied statistics at kampala international university,let me hope my request will be put under consideration.may the lord bless u.

60. am a student at kampala international university doing a bachelor in economics and applied statistics.i lost my dad at the beginning of the year and has limited to go ahead with my studies,and this means i was requestig for your finance support in any way,let me hope my request will be put under consideration,may the lord bless you.

61. I HAVE A DEGREE IN BBA ADMINISTRATION-ACCOUNTING FROM THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, I NEED A BURSARY TO PURSUE MY MASTERS HOW CAN YOU HELP ME?

62. I have been admitted to the Atlantic international university of amerca but am financially unstable.please help me.Thanks to God!

63. I am pleased with your good work. I am a male Ugandan searching for a scholarship to persue a bachelors degree in either law or accounting. Your reply is vital.Thank you

64. am greatfull to be part of you.May you please give us the way forward on how to get the application forms?

65. I am very gratefull for the information you always give me.May you please tell us how to get application forms?

66. I hold a BS.c in Entrepreneurial and Business Management(second class upper) from the National Open University Of Nigeria(NOUN).I applied for an online masters programme in Operations and supply chain management with the university of liverpool which i got.I was to begin in september but i could not meet up.I am looking for a scholarship that can enable me do the programme while i look for a job in my country.

67. thank you.
    but can it be there even at Uganda Christian University.
    Am a second year student there.
    kindly inform us about how to get the application forms.

68. Your positive consideraton shall be valued kind

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70. Sir, I would like to apply for a scholarship grant by your university and if possible i would like to study in australia , how to get the application forms. thanks and God Bless!

71. Morning,
    I am a student just finish the third year from one university in my country, now to day i am looking for scholarship to continue with my education i am poor please admission of another university Please I really need your help for my education either by scholarship or financially.

72. thank you for the help off,i want scholarship from your side,am still a student of college of agricultur now.study agric Technology am finish by nest year,how do i do adverce me on that,
    am come form a poor family were the as now help ator and i want achive my aim help out

73. thanks very much the bursary team , am asingle mother who has a diploma in midwifery .n would like to further my education by doing a bachelor, but have no source of support, i would like to get a asscholarship.

74. i would like to know much about how to apply

75. Just admitted into Regents University to study oil and gas trade management at the masters level but lack funds to enroll. I therefore write to seek for financial support.

76. hi
    I am student of Govt unani medical college, studying 2nd year BUMS.i am looking for scholarship to continue my studies.I request you to inform me for a scholarship form & i belong to 2B category, please help me by providing me a scholarship thank you

77. dear sir i am second year stundent at international university of management(IUM), Namibia doing finance management. i am in need of a scholarship or bursary to help me out with my studies please help.

78. thank you for the information am just trusting God that one day i will manage to get a scholarship for me to per-sure master in neuropsychology

79. ok, south australia internal office thanks for your advice i`ll contact sheetal sharma

80. I would like to apply for bursary pls assist im in grade12