The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides an award that is based on a special fund first established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, “the income of which is to be applied to the preparation and publication of ...

By now, you know about the endless speculation on whether the incoming Trump administration might close the U.S. Department ...

Despite how high student loan debt has gotten in the United States, billions of dollars in Pell Grants still went unclaimed ...

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Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, a private two-year college in Boston, offers an 800-hour certificate program in HVAC and refrigeration. President and CEO Aisha Francis said she’d l ...

Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, a private two-year college in Boston, offers an 800-hour certificate ...

The Federal Pell Grant is a need-based financial aid program for U.S. students pursuing higher education. It doesn’t require ...

Some states now make completing the FAFSA a high school graduation requirement.The U.S. Department of Education awarded about ...

In the wake of the 2023 reinstatement of Pell Grants for incarcerated students, state officials are working to boost ...

Pell Grants are federal grants awarded to low-income undergraduate students; the number of Pell Grant recipients is often used as a proxy for low-income student enrollment. The US Department of ...

A federal grant is financial aid awarded to fund a specific project or program. Recipients include state, local, and municipal governments as well as organizations. Federal grants-in-aid are ...

To qualify, students must have at least a 3.8 grade-point average at the time of admission, file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid by July 1 before the fall semester, and be Pell Grant ...