Kentucky students are on the mad hunt for scholarships that will help them get through their college years on a free ride, just like all the other students in the country.
Luckily, the College Access Program offers an award of up to $2000 for those who are eligible and complete their FAFSA form.
Other smaller scholarships like these often go unclaimed in Kentucky and should be considered by any serious scholarship-seeking student:
- Inter-Country Energy Scholarship $1000
- Jackson Energy Scholarship $1000
- Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation Scholarship $1000
- Kentucky Air National Guard Education Assistance $3312
- Robert C Byrd Honors Scholarship $150
Students can also contact the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority at 502-696-7393 or mmorgan@kheaa.com for information on these funding opportunities:
- College Access Program (CAP) Grant
- Early Childhood Development Scholarship
- Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES)
- Kentucky National Guard Tuition Assistance Program
- Kentucky Teacher Scholarship Program
- Kentucky Tuition Grant (KTG)
- Minority Educator Recruitment and Retention Scholarship
Students can also contact their high school counselor, college student adviser, financial aid office or admissions office for further advice and direction on scholarships. In the meantime here is a free list of college scholarships for the state of Kentucky:
• 1890 Scholars Program
• A. David Nichols Memorial Scholarship
• A. Elisabeth Potts Memorial Scholarship
• A. Frank & Bethel C. Gallaher Memorial Music Award
• A.A. Gorin Scholarship
• A.B. Waters Scholarship
• A.D. Albright Honors Scholarship
• A.D. Albright Staff Congress Scholarship
• A.M. Stickles Scholarships
• A.P. Knight Memorial Scholarship
• A.W. Fields Family Fund for Excellence in Accounting
• Aaron P. Turner Memorial Scholarship
• AC Nielsen BASES Endowed Scholarship
• Academic Achievement Scholarship
• Academic Common Market Award
• Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Academic Grant 1st Time Students
• Addie Beth & Dr. Carroll Hubbard Memorial Scholarship
• ADM Award
• Adron & Mignon Doran Scholarship
• Adron & Mignon Doran Scholarship
• Adults Belong in College Scholarship for Non-Traditional Adult Students
• Ag Mechanics Scholarship
• Agee Memorial Dyslexia Scholarship Fund
• Agnes Duskey McCrory Scholarship
• Agribusiness Scholarship
• Agriculture Alumni Scholarships
• Agriculture Scholarship
• Albany-Florence Scholarship
• Albert & Louise Cooper Memorial Scholarship
• Albert B. Allison Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Alden Scholarship
• Alexander & Company Accounting Scholarship
• Alexander Christian Foundation Scholarship
• Alice Sue Fairless Scholarship
• Alicia G. Vallotton Music-Theatre Scholarship
• Alicia Gail Suiter Memorial Scholarship
• Allbritten-Linn Accounting Scholarship
• Blache Wiley Shafer Memorial FUnd
• Black Achievers Scholarship
• Blake Scholarship
• Blue Level Diversity Scholarships
• Bluegrass Chapter Soil & Water Conservation Society Scholarship
• Bluegrass Golf Course Superintendent Association Scholarship
• Bluegrass-Alumni Scholarship
• Board of Trustees Scholarship
• Bob D. Cornman Accounting Scholarship
• Bob Proctor Scholarship in Broadcasting
• Boone Logan Memorial Scholarship
• Bowers Business Scholarship
• Bowling Academic Scholarship
• Bowling Green High School Alumni Scholarship
• Bowling Green Kiwanis Club Scholarship
• Bowling Green Rotary Club Scholarship
• Bowling Green Woman’s Club Scholarship
• Bowling Green-Warren County Jaycees Scholarship
• Bowman “Bo” Davenport Scholarship
• Bradley T. Hughes Memorial Scholarship
• Brannon Family Scholarship
• Brashear Scholarship
• Breckinridge Commemorative Endowment
• Brescia University Alumni Association Scholarship
• Brian D. Welch Memorial Scholarship
• Brian Ray Smith Memorial Scholarship
• Brianne E. Hammond Scholarship
• Broadcasting Scholarship
• Broadway United Methodist Church Scholarship
• Bruce Family Fund for Excellence in Accounting
• Buchannan-Neville Endowed Scholarship
• Buffalo Trace Veterinary Medical Association-Carl Grady Scholarship
• Buffalo Trace Veterinary Medical Association-Charles Derrickson Scholarship
• Buford Hurt Memorial Scholarship
• Builders Association of Bowling Green Scholarship
• Burkardt Brothers Scholarship
• Buron ‘Boots’ & Modest Clark Jeffrey Memorial Scholarship
• Business Administration & Business Education Scholarship
• Byron N. Wilson Scholarship
• C. Louise Caudill Scholarship
• C. Maxwell Dieffenbach Scholarship
• C.E. Field Scholarship Fund
• C.E. Field Scholarship Fund
• C.E. Norris Scholarship
• C.H. Roberts Memorial Scholarship
• C.S. Lowry Memorial Scholarship
• Caleb Slaton-Logan Aluminum Scholarship
• Calloway County Homemakers Award
• Calvatore M. & Frances D. Hamilton Matarazzo Scholarship
• Calvernia A. Willis Vincent Scholarship
• Commonwealth Scholarship for Legal Studies
• Community College Scholarship
• Community Scholar Award
• Comp Ed-KBA Worker’s Compensation Scholarship
• Computer Science & Mathematics Scholarship
• Computer Science, Engineering & Mathematics Scholarship
• Constantine W. Curris Advanced Graduate & Professional School Fellowship
• Constantine W. Curris IFC Scholarship
• Cora Jane & Robert E. Spiller Scholarship
• Corbett Scholarship in Music & Theatre
• Corporex Scholarship
• Country Scholarships
• Covington Rotary Club-Ed Freshney Memorial Scholarship
• Covington-Kenton Lions Club William R. Yates M.D. Memorial Scholarship
• Cralle Foundation Scholarship
• Crayton & Bernice Jackson Scholarship
• Creaggan Hearld Memorial Scholarship
• Creative Arts-Annette Schmidt Scholarship
• Crusade for Children Scholarship
• CSEMS Scholarship
• CSI Computer Scholarship
• CSIS Department Scholarship
• Cyril & Ruth Greulich Educational Endowment Scholarship
• D. Whitney Combs Scholarship
• Daisy & Bob Vincent & Mary Lou Vincent Brand Memorial Scholarship
• Dan Ingle Memorial Scholarship
• Dan M. Holbrook Memorial Scholarship
• Dan W. Miller Memorial Scholarship
• Danville Rotary John M. Camenisch, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
• Darrell & Leola Adams Scholarship
• David A. Vaughan Memorial Scholarship
• David B. Whitaker Scholarship
• David C. Scott Scholarship
• David Erl Sensing Scholarship
• David R. Watson Scholarship
• David Wedge Memorial Wedge-Presbyterian Church Scholarship
• Daviess County Bar Association Scholarship
• Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic, Inc. Scholarship
• Dean Dowdy Music Scholarship
• Dean Homer E. Cooper Memorial Graduate Scholarship Award
• Dean’s Scholarship
• Deb & Edith Wylder Creative Writing Scholarship
• Debate Scholarships
• Delbert & Willie Oliphant Terrell Scholarship
• Della Clark & Florian Bales Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund in Nursing
• Chellgren Family Endowed Scholarship
• Chemistry Alumni Scholarship
• Chemistry Department Scholarship
• Chesley Williams Bailey Scholarship
• Christian Ministries Awards (a)
• Christian Ministries Awards (b)
• Christian Ministries Awards (c)
• Christian Service Scholarships
• Christian Vocation Grants
• Christina Tubbs Memorial Scholarship
• Christopher Gist Historical Society Scholarship
• Church Matching Scholarship
• Church Matching Scholarships
• CIC Tuition Exchange Scholarship
• Cindy Hill Memorial Scholarship
• Cindy Sawicki Memorial Scholarship
• CINSAM Scholarship
• Cisco Networking Academy Scholarship (a)
• Cisco Networking Academy Scholarship (b)
• Citizens First Bank Scholarship
• City Cartage Company Scholarship
• Civil Engineering Scholarship Program
• Clara Bascom Lane Memorial Scholarship
• Clara M. Eagle Art Scholarship
• Clarence D. Walker Memorial Scholarship
• Clarence Gifford Endowed Scholarship Award in Education
• Clarence Glover Scholarship
• Clark Conrad Environmental Sciences Scholarship
• Clay & Treva Jones Scholarship
• Cliff Johnson Art Award
• Clifford R. & Addie R. Rader Nursing Scholarship
• Clifton J. Bradley Memorial Scholarship
• Cloma Porter Moore Memorial Scholarship
• Clyde B. Cates Scholarship Fund
• Clyde T. Harlow Scholarship
• Coach Mac McDonald Memorial Scholarship
• Col. Oscar Payne Cleaver Scholarship
• Col. William E. Barber Scholarship
• Colleen McCormick Scholarship
• College Access Program Grant
• College Heights Herald Journalism Scholarships
• College of Agriculture-First Year Scholarship
• Colonel Agronomy Club Scholarship
• Colonel John H. Faughn Scholarship in Criminal Justice
• COMAIR Scholarship
• Commonwealth Excellence Scholarship
• Commonwealth Scholar Award
• Commonwealth Scholars Program
• Campbell County Heritage Scholarship
• Campus Lights Scholarship
• Cane Ridge Scholarships
• Captain Robert A. & Julia Hicks Allbritten Scholarship
• Captain Todd O. Travis, US Marine Corps Scholarship
• Caritas Award
• Carl & Mary Osbourn Wolford Spalding Education Scholarship Fund
• Carl C. “Pat” Jordan Scholarship
• Carl L. Keeslar Memorial Scholarship
• Carl M. Hill Scholarship
• Carlie Schulenberg Memorial Scholarship
• Carlisle Cutchin Memorial Scholarship
• Carol Hoover Memorial Scholarship
• Carol J. Wright Freshman Journalism Scholarship
• Carolyn Flatt Scholarship
• Carrie B. Jones Pigman Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Carroll F. Knicely Journalism Scholarship
• Carroll McGuffey Scholarship Endowment for the Teaching of Mathematics
• Case National Student Exchange Scholarship
• Catherine C. Ward Scholarship
• Catholic Schools Award for Excellence
• Cecil & Chester Harrison Scholarship
• Cecil B. & Hazel S. Clark Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Cee Vee Harris-Smith Achievement Award
• Century Club Scholarship
• Chapter 88, Vietnam Veterans of America, LZ Bluegrass of Northern Kentucky Award
• Charles & Betty Combs Scholarships
• Charles & Elizabeth Bruce Scholarship
• Charles & Martha Strader Scholarship
• Charles A. Reid Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Charles B. & Anita Hardin McDole Scholarship
• Charles D. & Mary Gray Ralph Scholarship
• Charles E. ‘Chuck’ Simons Scholarship
• Charles G. Coulson, Jr. Scholarship
• Charles G. Smith Future Physicians Scholarship
• Charles Gatton Scholarship
• Charles H. ‘Jack’ & June H. Biggart Scholarship
• Charles L. Seligman Family Scholarship
• Charles M. Anderson Scholarship in Communication & Technology
• Charles M. Stewart Scholarship
• Charles McCarty Sr. Memorial Scholarship
• Charles Rhodes Endowment for Science Fellowships
• Charlotte Tuscher Nelson Scholarship
• Chase Activity Scholarship
• Chase Alumni Merit Scholarship
• Chase Educational Diversity Tuition Scholarship
• Chase Excellence Scholarship
• Chase Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Cheerleading Scholarship
• Alliance Corp Leadership Scholarship
• Alma T. Meyer Memorial Scholarship
• Alpha Gamma Rho-Dean Walton Scholarship
• Alumni Association Life Member Scholarship
• Alumni Family Scholarship
• Alumni Scholarship
• Alumni Tuition Discount
• Amanda Ann Gunn Scholarship
• Ambassador Marshall P. Jones Fund for Excellence in Accounting
• Ambrose H. Lindhorst Scholarship
• American Heritage Scholarship
• American Legion Nursing Scholarship
• Amy Lynn Casson Memorial Scholarship
• Andreas & Poppy Zizos Journalism Award
• Ann Dean Carr Scholarship
• Ann Herron Theatre Student Scholarship
• Ann Laurie Granstaff Memorial Scholarship
• Ann Willis Dougherty Memorial Scholarship
• Anna F. Legate Business Scholarship
• Anna F. Rock & Robert D. Rock Memorial Scholarship
• Anna Fisher & Cecil C. Brown Scholarship
• Anna K. Kadlee Scholarship Fund
• Anna Margaret Garrison Riggins Vocal Music Scholarship
• Anna ‘Tex’ Todd Nursing Scholarship
• Anniversary Scholarships
• Anthropology Scholarship
• Antoinette C. Hodes Scholarship
• Archie V. & Myrtle L. Carrell Scholarship
• Arnzen, Wentz, Molloy, Laber, & Storm P.S.C. Scholarship
• Art Scholarship
• Art, Drama, Journalism, Band, & Music Performance Grants & Competitive Scholarships
• Art, Music, Theatre Scholarship
• Arthur Anderson & Company Scholarship
• Arthur Ashe Scholarship
• Arthur Kunkel Scholarship
• Arthur T. Schramm Memorial Scholarship
• Artist Bill Fischer Foundation for Working Artists
• Ashland Commonwealth Scholars Scholarship
• Ashley Mixon Psychology Award
• Ashley Thompson Memorial Book Fund
• Athena Cage Scholarship
• Athletic Grant-in-Aid
• Athletic Performance Grants
• Athletic Scholarships
• August C. Muckler Scholarship
• AWARE Scholarship
• B.T. Holmes Memorial Scholarship
• Bailey Gore Lions Club Scholarship
• Baird, Kurtz & Dobson Fund for Excellence in Accounting
• Ballard-McCracken County Alumni & Friends Scholarship
• Band Scholarships
• Baptist Leadership Awards
• Baptist Youth Speakers’ Tournament Sholarships
• Barbara & Hays Brooks Scholarship
• Barbara Cochran Breazeale Scholarships
• Barbara M. Collier Memorial Endowed Scholarship
• Barbara Wiggins Memorial Scholarship
• BB&T Bank Scholarship
• Belgen Wells Scholarship
• Bellarmine Scholars Scholarship
• Bellarmine University Accel Scholarship
• Bellarmine University-Harrison County Scholarship
• Benjamin Dock Spencer Memorial Scholarship
• Benson G. Leichhardt Pre-Pharmacy Scholarship
• Bernadine Steele Scholarship
• Bernard & Suzetta Mulligan Ebelhar Scholarship
• Bernard J. Gilday, Sr. Scholarship
• Bernard Sherron Scholarship
• Bernice N. Clark Scholarship
• Bertrand Ball Memorial Scholarships
• Bess & Ernest Williams Scholarship
• Betsy Ross Foundation Scholarship in Honor of Larry Watson Wilcox
• Betsy Ross Wilcox Memorial FFA Scholarship
• Betsy Ross Wilcox Rodeo Scholarship
• Betty Jean Green Doerr Memorial Scholarship
• Betty Lou Smith Scholarship
• Beulah Clinton Memorial Scholarship
• Beulah Winchel Scholarship
• Beverly Veenker Dance Scholarship
• Bible Bowl Scholarships
• Big Sandy Superstore Scholarship
• Bill & Gean Cherry Scholarship
• Bill Douglas Memorial Scholarship
• Bill Mahaney Scholarship
• Bill Powell Memorial Scholarship
• Bill Soslowitz Scholarship
• Bill Taylor Physics Scholarship
• Bill Williams Scholarship in Theatre
• Billie Mahoney Gubler Scholarship
• Billington-Shipley Agribusiness Scholarship
• Biology Scholarship
• Birdie Potter Gillum Scholarship
• Bishop John McRaith Scholarship