Louisiana students heading off to college are no doubt looking for the perfect scholarship opportunity to get them through on a free ride.
The Louisiana Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators knows students might need help navigating the Louisiana scholarship waters.
To help, they provide the following checklist for students who plan on applying for financial aid to attend a Louisiana college or university:
1. Complete the admissions process for the university you plan to attend
2. Apply for a US Dept of Education Pin at www.pin.ed.gov
3. Complete the FAFSA form at www.fafsa.ed.gov
4. Receive and review your Student Aid Report (SAR)
5. Contact the Dept of Education if you don’t receive the SAR within 3 weeks
6. Contact the college financial aid office to check your application status
7. Complete any additional documents required by the college
8. Accept your financial aid award package
A partial list of Louisiana college scholarships and their respective awards are listed below:
- Louisiana Scholarship $2000
- Robert C Byrd Honors Scholarship $1500
- Tops Opportunity Award $3094
- Tops Tech Award $1592
- The Bogalusa Scholarship Fund $2000
This is a list of some of the scholarships with larger award amounts and contact information relevant to each:
- Dr. William S. Boyd Scholarship
3070 Teddy Drive, Suite A
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
p: 225.924.6978 - Leveraging Educational Assistance Program (LEAP)
P.O. Box 91202
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821
p: 800.259.5626 x1012 - Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance
P.O. Box 91202
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821
p: 800.259.5626 x1012 - Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students Honors Award
P.O. Box 91202
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821
p: 800.259.5626 - Louisiana Veterans Affairs Educational Assistance for Dependent Children
P.O. Box 94059, Capitol Station
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 - Robert C. Byrd Scholarship
Louisiana State Department of Education
P.O. Box 94064
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
p: 225.342.2098
f: 225.342.3432 - Rockefeller State Wildlife Scholarship
P.O. Box 91202
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821
p: 800.259.5626 x1012
Finally, here is a list of free scholarship opportunities for college students in the state of Louisiana.
• 1825 Scholars Scholarship
• 1890 Scholars Program
• A.C. Breckenridge, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
• A+ Leadership Scholarship
• Abell Scholarship
• Academic Achievement Scholarship
• Academic Common Market
• Academic Common Market Award
• Academic Departmental Scholarships
• Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Academic Excellence Scholarships
• Academic Leadership Scholarship
• Academic Recognition Scholarship
• Academic-Top 10% Transfer Student Scholarships
• Academic-Top 20% Transfer Student Scholarships
• Academic-Top 40% Transfer Student Scholarships
• Acadian Ambulance Scholarship
• Accounting Faculty & Alumni Scholarship
• Ad & Press Club of Southwest Louisiana Scholarship
• Adam Scott Pecoraro Honors Program Endowed Memorial Scholarship
• Addie Lela Thompson Smith Memorial Scholarship
• AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Co.)
• Agriculture Alumni Association Scholarship
• AICPA Scholarship for Minority Accounting Students
• Airboat Transportation Scholarship
• Alex Postlethwaite Scholarship
• Alexander J. Berey Endowed Scholarship in Business
• Alfred L. Chisholm Scholarship
• Alice Powell Anderson Scholarship
• Alice R. Douglas Memorial Scholarship
• Allan & Helena Dusenbury Scholarship
• Allen J. Danos, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
• Alma Stark Cecil Scholarship
• Almar Foundation Scholarship
• Alpha Chi Chapter Graduate Scholarship
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholarship
• Alpha Sigma Nu Scholarship
• Althouse’s Kwik Kopy Printing Scholarship
• Alumni Federation Scholarships
• Alumni Legacy Scholarship
• American Association of Drilling Engineers Scholarship
• American Business Women’s Association-Amis de Lafourche Chapter Scholarship
• American Culinary Federation-Bayou Chapter Scholarship
• American Legion Auxiliary Post No. 31-Henry Robertson Scholarship
• American Legion Lenox Hotard Post No. 31 Scholarship
• American Petroleum Industry Custer L. Primos Memorial Scholarship
• Amos Deinard Foundation Scholarship
• Centenary T.O.P.S. Scholarship
• Centennial Valedictorian Scholarship
• Central Louisiana Chapter Scholarship
• Charlene Crawley Scholarship
• Charles & Patricia O’Drobinak Scholarship
• Charles E. Culpepper Scholarship
• Charles Emery Cate Excellence in Business Scholarship
• Charles M. Anderson Memorial Scholarship
• Charles Paddock Memorial Scholarship
• Charles Redman Study Abroad Scholarship
• Charles Strosacker Foundation Scholarship
• Charles W. Campbell Memorial Scholarship
• Charles W. Carwile Scholarship
• Charles Wesley Merritt Scholarship
• Cheerleader Scholarships
• Chef John Folse & Company Dinner Scholarship
• Chef John Folse & Company Scholarship
• Chemical Engineering Summer Internship Program (U.S. or Germany)
• Chicago Inter-Alumni Council Scholarship
• Chicago Public Schools UNCF Campaign
• Choral Scholarships
• Christin & Claire Cosby Memorial Scholarship
• Chrysler Corporation Scholarship
• Church Careers Scholarship
• Church’s Chicken Opportunity Scholarship
• Cisco-UNCF Scholars Program
• Citigroup Fellows Program
• Citizens National Bank Scholarship
• City (Mayoral) Scholarships
• City Club of Hammond Scholarship
• Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships
• Clarence “C.J.” James Memorial Minority Scholarship
• Claude E. Fowler, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
• Clausen Family Endowed Scholarship
• Clausen Family Endowed Scholarship
• Cleveland Foundation Scholarship
• Cleveland Municipal School Scholarship
• Clifford A. King Memorial Scholarship
• Clift Gresham Scholarship
• Clorox Company Foundation Scholarship
• Coca Cola Scholarships
• Cody & Hope Bailey Memorial Scholarship
• College Freshman Scholarship
• College of Business Alumni Board Scholarship
• College of Business Endowed Scholarship
• College of Business Scholarship
• College of Education Scholarship
• College of Education Senior Scholarship
• Collegiate Achievement Award
• Columbus Foundation Scholarship
• Eleanor Dansereau Ellis Memorial Scholarship
• Eleanore C. Condon Scholarship
• Ella Charitable Fitzgerald Foundation Scholarship
• Elliene Tate Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
• Elmer Roe Deaver Foundation Scholarship
• Elsa & Irving Lyons Memorial Scholarship in Music
• Emerson Electric Company Scholarship
• Emma LaDew Memorial Scholarship
• Emy Lou Biedenharn Memorial Scholarships
• Endowed Scholarships
• Enest Pierce, III Scholarship
• Enola Jeandron Autin Memorial Scholarship
• Enos F. “Jake” Bailey Scholarship
• Entre Nous Scholarship
• Equine Scholarship
• Erna Deigmayr Endowed Scholarship
• ESSENCE Scholars Program
• Esther R. Sawyer Scholarship
• Eugenia S. Churchill Scholarship
• Eula Mae Beall Memorial Scholarship
• Eunice Walker Johnson Endowed Scholarship
• Evelyn Levina Wright Scholarship
• Evelyn-Mae Durmeyer Fillion Scholarship in Music
• Evergreen Lion’s Club Scholarship
• Excellence in Commitment to Education & Leadership (ExCEL) Scholarship
• F. Max Hardberger Scholarship
• F. Smith Knoblock Legal Assistant Studies Major Scholarship
• Faculty Appreciation Scholarship in Economics
• Faculty-Staff Fee Waiver Scholarship
• Family & Consumer Sciences Scholarship for Excellence
• Fannie Mae Foundation Scholarship
• Fanny Edith Winn Education Trust Scholarship
• Federal Express Scholarship
• Femmes Natales Club of Thibodaux Scholarship
• Ferdinand Dominguez & Isabella Depetirate Dominguez Memorial Scholarship
• Fifth-Third Scholars Program
• Financial Services Institution
• Firefighters Disability Exemption Scholarship
• First American Bank Scholarship
• First Guaranty Bank Assistantship Scholarship
• First Guaranty Bank Nursing Scholarship
• Florence Zeigler Allbritton Piano Award
• Florine A. Petit Education Scholarship
• Fort Worth Independent School District Scholarship
• Forty & Eight Scholarship
• Forty & Eight Voiture Locale 1522 Scholarship
• Founders Awards
• Frances Baldwin Scholarship
• Frances Hook Scholarship
• Frances Robertson Fortenberry Memorial Scholarship
• Donaldsonville Music Club Scholarship
• Donnie & Pam Simpson Scholarship
• Doris & John Scholarship Carpenter
• Dorothy McIntyre Faust Endowed Scholarship
• Dorothy N. McNeal Scholarship
• Dr. & Mrs. Jack Andonie Endowed Scholarship in Biological Sciences & Pre-Medicine
• Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. “Bob” Dolese Rotary Scholarship
• Dr. D.G. Joseph Memorial Scholarship
• Dr. Grace Monk Gueydan Scholarship
• Dr. Harlan Brewer-Elderhostel Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
• Dr. J. Lincoln & Mrs. Mary Anne Goreau DeVillier Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
• Dr. James G. Ragan Memorial Scholarship
• Dr. James M. Rosin Scholarship
• Dr. Joe Ratliff Challenge
• Dr. John E. Ball Memorial Scholarship
• Dr. Judy Theriot Leadership Scholarship
• Dr. Margo Davis Scholarship
• Dr. Norman Roussell Scholarship
• Dr. Richard P. Wendt Memorial Scholarship
• Dr. Robert Carl Brown Endowed Scholarship
• Dr. Robert D. Butler Scholarship for Professional Development in Counseling
• Dr. Roy E. Hyde Scholarship
• Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship
• Dr. Thomas Stark Scholarship
• Dr. William L. Travis Memorial Scholarship
• Dr. William R. Giles Memorial Scholarship Program
• Drama Scholarship
• Ducie Heaney Horticulture Scholarship
• DuPont Scholarship
• Duquesne Light Company Scholarship
• E. Ann Barker, M.D. Scholarship
• E.G. Robichaux Scholarship
• E.P. & Mildred Kuhn Excellence in Liberal Arts Scholarship
• E.R.T. Marquette, C.P.A. Accounting Scholarship
• Early Admissions Scholarship
• Early Graduates Summer Incentive Scholarship
• East Cleveland City Schools
• East Houma Lion’s Club Scholarship
• East Texas Scholarships
• Edgar Murray Scholarship Fund
• Edmond L. Deramee Scholarship
• Edmund B. Stueben Undergraduate & Graduate Support Fund Scholarship
• Edward & Hazel Stephenson Scholarship
• Edward Augustin Generelly Scholarship
• Edward D. Grigg Scholarship
• Edward Fitterman Foundation Scholarship
• Edward M. Nagel Foundation Scholarship
• Edward N. Ney Scholarship
• Elaine Belcher Latino Scholarship
• Elder J.M. & Melissa Thomas Stuart Memorial Scholarship
• AmSouth Scholarship in Business
• AMVETS Post 66 Scholarship
• Anna “Webbie” Ory Endowed Scholarship
• Anne M. Ferguson Endowed Scholarship
• Annual Scholarship-Four Year Award
• Anthony J. Rouse, Sr. Scholarship
• Anthony Jude Vergona Memorial Scholarship
• Anthony ‘Val’ Valentino Memorial Scholarship in Music
• Arrant Scholarship in Insurance
• Art Department Scholarship
• Arthur & Esther deVries Scholarship
• Arthur Ross Foundation Scholarship
• Arthur T. Schramm Memorial Scholarship
• Association of Government Accountants Scholarship
• Association of Operating Room Nurses of Southwest Louisiana Scholarship
• Athletic Scholarship
• Audrey & Nicholas Tournillon Endowed Presidential Level Scholarship
• Auto-Chlor Scholarship
• Awards Program
• B. William F. Sherman Memorial Scholarship
• Band Scholarship
• Bank One Excellence in Women’s Athletics Scholarship
• Bank One Scholarship
• Barousse Scholarship
• Basell Scholarship
• Baton Rouge Area Scholarship
• Baton Rouge Chapter Scholarship
• Baton Rouge Traffic Club Transportation Management Scholarship
• Bayou District Dietetic Association Scholarships
• Bayou Educational Fund of Houma, Inc. Scholarship
• Bayou Kennel Club, Inc. Scholarship
• Bayou Oaks Hospital Scholarship
• Bayou Society for Human Resource Management Scholarship
• Bayou Woman’s Club Scholarship
• Bayouland Arts, Inc. Scholarship
• Beginning Freshmen Academic Scholarships
• Benny Cenac Scholarship
• Beryl Ann Kraemer Scholarship
• Bessie Irene Smith Trust Scholarship
• Best Buy Enterprise Employee Scholarship Program
• Best Buy Enterprise Scholarship
• Beta Delta Chapter of Lambda Tau Honor Fraternity Annual Scholarship
• Beta Delta Chapter of Lambda Tau Honor Fraternity Endowed Scholarship
• Beta Gamma Sigma Outstanding Chapter Scholarship
• Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship
• Betty Bloch Kohn Scholarship
• Betty Fosberg Scholarship
• Betty Wenter Scholarship
• Beverly Stafford Memorial Scholarship
• Bickham Inc.-Edgar Cayce Foundation Research Scholarship
• Bill & Katherine Clark Scholarship in Education
• Bill Brown Scholarship
• Biology Scholarship
• Bite of the Arts Scholarship
• Block & Bouterie Attorneys at Law Excellence in Pre-Law Scholarship
• Bob Blazier Broadcast Scholarship
• Bob Brooks School of Real Estate & Insurance Scholarship
• Booth-Bricker Scholarship
• Booz Allen Hamilton-William F. Stasior Internship
• Boudreaux Scholarship
• Bourgeois Excellence in Manufacturing Technology Endowed Scholarship
• Boysie & Joy Bollinger Endowed Scholarship in Culinary Arts
• Bradley Lane Brummel Endowed Kappa Alpha Scholarship
• Brian Memorial Drama Scholarship
• Bruce Mouton Endowed Scholarship
• Building Future Leaders Scholarship
• Buquet Foundation Foreign Student Scholarship
• Bushrod Campbell & Adah Hall Scholarship
• Business Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Byard Edwards MBA Scholarship
• Byron C. & Edna G. Thompson Memorial Scholarship
• C. Glenn Walters Marketing Scholarship
• C. Marshall Abadie Memorial Scholarship
• C.R. Bard Scholarship & Internship Program
• Cajun French Music Association Scholarship
• Calcasieu Kennel Club Scholarship
• Calcasieu Pharmaceutical Association Scholarship
• Calecas Scholarship for Culinary Arts
• Canaday Language Ars Studies Scholarship (CLASS)
• Candy Fleet Scholarship (Employees)
• Candy Fleet Scholarship (Residency)
• Career Opportunities Endowed Scholarship
• Cargill Scholarship-Internship Program
• Carlos & Lillian Thurston Scholarship
• Carolyn Bailey Thomas Scholarship
• Carrie K. Davis Memorial Grant for Fine Arts
• Carroll L. Hessler Scholarship
• Carson Broome Memorial Scholarship
• Castle Rock Foundation Scholarship
• Catha Lambert Endowment Scholarship
• Catherine W. Pierce Scholarship
• CBS Career Horizons
• CDM Scholarship-Internship
• Cecil Henderson Memorial Scholarship
• Centenary College Choir Scholarships
• Centenary T.O.P.S. Honors Scholarship
• Comet Press Newspapers, Inc. Business Fellowship
• Community Bank Excellence Scholarship
• Community Service Scholarships
• Con Edison Scholarship
• Cora Mae Savoy Scholarships
• Costco Scholarship
• Coy G. Eklund Scholarship
• CPCU Finance-Insurance Scholarship
• Credit Suisse First Boston Scholarship
• Crit Petty Exxon Scholarship
• Crosby Tugs Scholarship
• C-SPAN Scholarship Program
• Culinary Scholarship
• Curtis C. Baker Memorial Scholarship
• Cycle World Scholarship
• Cyclone Scholarships
• D. Donnaud Scholarship Fund in Music
• D. Vickers Creative Writing Scholarship
• D. Vickers Memorial Honors Scholarship
• Dale A. Guidry Memorial Scholarship
• Dallas Leroy & Helen D. Calmes Memorial Scholarship
• Daniel Leblanc Memorial Scholarship
• D’Arcangelo Excellence in Accounting Endowed Scholarship
• Daughenbaugh-Matheny Scholarship
• Davenport Forte Pedestal Fund
• David “Wolfie” Phillippe Memorial Scholarship
• David & Freda Buttross Memorial Scholarship
• David Geffen Foundation Scholarship
• Dean John F. McCloskey Scholarship Fund
• Dean’s Honor Scholarships
• Dean’s Scholarship
• Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Deborah Rae Morris Endowed Scholarship in Special Education
• Debra Ann Bateman Hutchinson Memorial Scholarship
• Debra Bartels Melton Endowed Scholarship in Nursing
• Delta Kappa Gamma Society Scholarship
• Delta Zeta Sorority Scholarship
• Denis D’Amore Scholarship
• Deoma R. Talbot Scholarship
• Department of Economics & Finance Scholarship
• Department of English Scholarship
• Dependent Fee Waiver Scholarship
• Dissertation-Year Fellowship
• Distinguished Freshman Housing Scholarship
• Distinguished Freshman Scholarship
• Distinguished National Scholar Scholarship
• Distinguished Scholar Awards
• Doctoral Scholars Program
• Don A. Baxter Endowment Scholarship
• Don R. Boyd Memorial Grant