Specialty Scholarships - Scholarships For Women

By Winson Yeung

There are many scholarships for women available. With so many individuals looking for school funding finding a specialty scholarship may be your best shot to receiving funding. There are many websites that can show you which scholarships are available as well as any qualifications necessary. Most scholarships will depend on your age and field of study you are interested in.

For women looking for a career change, skills to improve their job, new training or finding a new way to educate them in order to help support their family and you are over 40 then you should look into the AARP. You need to show that you have financial need, are over 40 and are enrolled at an accredited university. Most of the women that receive the scholarships are low income families.

If you are in the sciences then the American Association of University Women educational foundation has several different scholarships. Some of their scholarships include funding for professions and diossertations, they offer funding based on specific selections, there are scholarship[s for international students studying in the US, postgraduate fellowships, funding for those taking leave for postdoctoral research, community action grants and funding for career development purposes.

If you are interested in a career and medicine and enrolled in medical school then there are two scholarships from the American Medical Women's Association. All of their information, application and deadlines can be found at www. Amwa-doc. Org.

There are many scholarships for women available from the Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation. These scholarships are specifically for those women in the field of geosciences and include the William Rucker Greenwood graduate of College Scholarship, Pudget Sound chapter scholarships for undergraduate or graduate geosciences majors and the Chrysalis scholarships for graduate students. Your location is also important for these scholarships as for some of them you must be studying in a Western Washington State University.

These scholarships are for both undergraduate and graduate students. Other scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students include thr Penelope Hanshaw Scholarships, scholarships for minorities within the women found in geosciences, the William Rucker Greenwood graduate scholarship and the Chrysalis scholarship.

For those women looking for funding in the field of computers of communication there are several foundations that provide scholarships. You should investigate funding opportunities available from the association of women in computing and the association for women in communications. The different types of communications scholarships are in the fields of marketing, graphic arts, public relations, advertising, journalism and communication.

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