Scholarship Resources

My Scholarship Central

Scholarship Central connects Missouri students and students who live in the St. Louis metro Illinois counties to financial resources for college. Scholarship Central has over 130 applications available with more added throughout the year.

Resources By Region

The grants, scholarships, and savings section of the resources by region page has information for local and regional scholarships.

A+ Scholarship

The A+ Scholarship Program provides scholarship funds to eligible graduates of A+ designated high schools who attend a participating Missouri public community college or vocational/technical school, or certain private two-year vocational/technical schools.

Advanced Placement Incentive Grant

The Advanced Placement Incentive Grant is a nonrenewable grant designed to encourage high school students to take and score well on Advanced Placement tests in mathematics and science.

Bright Flight Program

The Missouri Higher Education Academic Scholarship commonly referred to as Bright Flight Program is a merit-based program that encourages top-ranked high school seniors to attend approved Missouri postsecondary schools.

Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant

The Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant is a new financial aid program for adults. The grant addresses workforce needs by helping adults pursue a certificate, degree, or industry-recognized credential in an area designated as high need. Grant recipients must maintain Missouri residency and work in Missouri for three years after graduation to prevent the grant from becoming a loan that must be repaid with interest.

Kids’ Chance Scholarship

This scholarship is available to children of workers who were seriously injured or died in a work-related accident covered and compensated by workers’ compensation. A serious injury is one that led to a paid settlement or judicial award and is verified with information from the Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation.

Minority and Underrepresented Environmental Literacy Program

This is a scholarship designed to assist academically talented minority and underrepresented individuals pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in an environmental course of study that will lead to employment in a field that is clearly environmentally related.

My Scholarship Central

Scholarship Central connects Missouri students and students who live in the St. Louis metro Illinois counties to financial resources for college. Scholarship Central has over 130 applications available with more added throughout the year.

Public Service Officer or Employee’s Child Survivor Grant

This program provides tuition assistance to certain public employees and their families if the employee is killed or permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty.

Wartime Veteran’s Survivors Grant

The Wartime Veteran’s Survivor Grants are available annually to children and spouses of veterans whose deaths or injuries were:

• a result of combat action or were attributed to an illness that was contracted while serving in combat action, or
• who became 80 percent disabled as a result of injuries or accidents sustained in combat action since Sept. 11, 2001.

The children and spouses of Missouri resident combat veterans deployed for active duty service on or after September 11, 2001, may also be eligible if the veteran received a DD214 indicating a combat pay tax exclusion exemption, or pay for hazardous duty, imminent danger, or hostile fire.  The total number of students that may receive a grant in any year is limited by statute to 25. The veteran must have been a Missouri resident when first entering the military service or at the time of death or injury.

College Board

College Board’s scholarship search includes over 2,200 programs awarding $6 billion in scholarships. 

Sallie Mae Scholarship Search

Register for free access to 5 million scholarships worth up to $24 billion. 

Scholarship America

Since its inception, Scholarship America has awarded $4.3 billion in scholarships to 2.6 million students.