How to search for awards on ScholarshipsCanada.com and SchoolFinder.com
Making the most of the SchoolFinder platform to find what you're after.
By Rob Taylor
Using a tool like ScholarshipsCanada.com or SchoolFinder.com is your first step in a thorough search for scholarships, but using the tool effectively can make the difference between a good search and an outstanding one.
Remember that if you find an award that you like, you can always save it to your dashboard, and it'll be easy to find again. On an award listing, there's a button near the top. On search results, you can click ✓ to save.
Searching by keyword
This tool is great if you know the name of the scholarship you are looking for. For example, you could enter in the name of an award — say the Alberta 4-H Scholarship — and immediately find the listing in our database. You can also try keywords, like "biochemistry," which will give you an array of results.
Searching by school or field of study
This is a handy tool to use if you're already in post-secondary, or if you know what school you'd like to attend. By using the drop-down school list, you can see a list of all the awards and scholarships in our database that are either offered by that school or require that you be attending or entering that school to be eligible.
Searching by field of study
We list over 600 fields of study in our database, ranging from Aboriginal studies to zoology. Want to see every award available to you if you choose a particular field of study? This is the tool for you.
Advanced searches
Once you've got some results, you can refine them. There are filters for year of study, field of study, heritage, region of residence, region of study, academic average, extracurricular activities, affiliations and many other categories. You can then sort your results by value, deadline or monthly views.
We recommend doing more than one advanced search to make sure you cover all your bases. Try different criteria and see what happens.
On SchoolFinder.com there are two other ways to find scholarships. The first is to go to a school profile and look at the Financial Aid tab to find scholarships offered for that school. The second way is to look up a specific program in one of the school profiles and see if it has any scholarships listed for it in the program description.
And last but not least, one of the best features on the SchoolFinder platform is that everything is interconnected. So, you can take the 3-Step Career Quiz™ to find a career you're interested in, and learn which schools offer programs that can lead to that career. Then you can easily find scholarships for that program. It's our version of one-stop shopping!
