Nursing Scholarships??

Student4_life · Feb 7, 2010

good luck with that...

RN9742 · Feb 7, 2010

I would contact your school and whoever is in charge of the nursing program. I have not had much luck with legit sites about scholarships!

Student4_life · Feb 8, 2010

Well you kinda get a 2,500 dollar scholarship if you are a taxpayer now (american op credit). And I am sure you can get some loans from the federal gov't (Up to 45,000 for undergrad) and they are going to pass a bill that forgives all debt after 20 years(as long as you pay 10% of your income to the bill every month, which is 341 dollars based on the avg nursing salary, so you wont have too much forgiven, but its something and you can make it 10 years til forgiveness if you work civil service)... Or you could agree to work with the NIH on an indian reservation. Or you could join the military in Nurse ROTC. Or you could just go into debt responsibly and pay off you debt accordingly. But there just aren't any scholarships for someone who wants to major in Nursing (the whole supply demand thing, everyone wants to do nursing so there is no need to pay for anyones school). :yeah:

USParamedic2RN · Feb 8, 2010

I am not sure if there are actual nursing scholarships but when my kids got ready for college we went to http://www.fastweb.com/ and began applying for scholarships. Both my children have received scholarships for various reasons. Take some time to go thru the various scholarships. You may find a scholarship that isn't for nursing but it applies to you for some other reason. Did you know there is a scholarship for being left handed ? It's interesting to see the scholarships that are out there ! Matter of fact, I will be going back and looking at the web site again. Not only for my kids again, but for myself now :) Good Luck !!

PS.. I did go ahead and register myself on fast web and there are 28 scholarships pertaining to nursing that i'm looking at right now. Some are even from Excelsior :)