Financial Aid and Personal Finance Resources
Financial Aid
- Provides tools and information for understanding college costs and finding and applying for financial aid
- Includes tools such as cost estimators, loan calculators, and scholarship searches
- From Scholarship.com
- Basic overview of types of scholarships available
- List of scholarship opportunities by state
- From the US Department of Labor
- Search for scholarships based on award type, level of study, place of residence or other parameters
Personal Finance
- Created as part of a collaboration between Khan Academy and Bank of America
- Includes several videos related to understanding credit, home buying, and saving & budgeting
- View all available videos here
- Courses designed to help you understand and take charge of your finances
- Select your age group from the menu on the left of the page to get started
Personal Finance (Khan Academy)
- Khan Academy also provides several videos related to finance on their website
- Many videos go beyond what many people might be doing with their personal finances, but still provide a lot of useful and potentially interesting information about topics such as interest and debt, credit cards and loans, and taxes
- US government website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics of financial education
- Provides information about earning, borrowing, saving, investing and spending responsibly
- Also provides tools such as calculators, budgeting worksheets and checklists