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Open Scholarships

A free, open, machine-readable directory of scholarships and student aid. Nevada first.

There is no free, openly-licensed source of scholarship data — the big aggregators keep it proprietary because the listings are the business. This is the missing public version: facts gathered from primary, official sources (state agencies, public universities, foundations), each record carrying the source it was verified against. Use it freely; just attribute it.

scholarships
states
CC BY 4.0license

The API

No key, no signup. CORS-open, CDN-served, returns JSON.

GET  /scholarships.json                         # the full dataset (one fetch)
GET  /api/scholarships?state=NV&level=high-school-senior
GET  /api/scholarships?q=nursing&amount_min=5000
     filters: state · level · field · basis · type · sponsor_type
              deadline_after · amount_min · q · limit · offset

Live — Nevada

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Using the data

Licensed CC BY 4.0. You may use, remix, and redistribute it — including commercially — as long as you credit it. Suggested attribution:

Open Scholarships by Grudged LLC — https://github.com/Grudged/open-scholarships (CC BY 4.0)

The data is facts about publicly-offered aid, gathered from official sources — never copied from a proprietary aggregator's compiled list. Always confirm details against each record's provenance.source_url before relying on them.

Contribute

The dataset lives in the open on GitHub — one JSON file per scholarship, validated against a published schema. Corrections and new records (from official sources, with provenance) are welcome.