Lists & Rankings

Here are the weirdest and coolest scholarships out there. With awards as quirky as these, you may be eligible for more free college funding than you think!

Say you live in Tennessee, but you're dying to go to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. With this good neighbor deal, you can go to UNC and get lower tuition rates....

When you add up tuition, room, board, and fees, each one of the schools on this list tops out at over $50,000 per year. Yowza. But that doesn't mean you'll end up paying the...

What makes a college a great value? For us, it's about the cost-to-quality ratio. So we asked the college experts: where you can get the most academic and student life bang for...

Don't even bother with looking at the price tag. If you get into one of these schools, you go. Period.

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We're not quite sure how they manage it—they must have really, really deep pockets—but these schools hand out all the grants, loans, and scholarships they possibly can.

Great school, great price tag. Everyone wins.

These big-money schools enroll the most students with Pell grants, a form of government aid awarded to families earning less than $40,000 per year. It means their student body...

Smart, talented, driven students deserve a tuition break, whether they have financial need or not. You know the kids we're talking about, the ones who are impossibly brainy,...

Todd Fothergill knows his stuff. He's an expert on financial aid and educational consultant based in New Hampshire. We asked him which schools would give generous merit aid to...