Easily find scholarships that fit you

Fastweb is a free scholarship search platform that connects students to college scholarships, trade school scholarships, and financial aid tools. Our goal is to help you find scholarships to make college or vocational school more affordable.

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What is Fastweb?

The leading scholarship database, our platform is designed to simplify the scholarship search for high school, trade school students, and college students. No more digging to find scholarships you qualify for. Students create a profile and get personalized scholarship recommendations.

Fastweb isn't just for scholarships. We provide students and their parents with helpful information to help them navigate their educational journeys– from college or trade school, throughout college and/or graduate school, and into career.

How Fastweb works

Uncover the right scholarships for you

1. Create your profile

After signing up, you'll customize your profile by answering a few questions.
2. Get instant scholarship matches

Using your unique profile, you'll get a list of scholarships you qualify for based upon your strengths, interests, student activities and skills.
3. Apply. Get money for college!

Each time you log in you're greeted with new scholarship matches, and the total value of the scholarships you qualify for! Filter through your list, save those you're interested in and start applying for scholarships.

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What makes Fastweb better?

Fastweb does the work for you

Research Team

Matching Algorithm

Content Experts

Scholarship Research Team

What sets Fastweb apart from other scholarship search sites is our team of researchers. Every scholarship in our database has been researched and vetted by a team of real people.

You get your own team of scholarship researchers, zero cost.
Each and every scholarship in our huge database has been vetted by a team of real people.
Never worry about scholarship scams.

Scholarship Matching Algorithm

Skip sifting through hundreds of scholarships, only to find a few you qualify for. Each day our matching algorithm uses your Fastweb profile to filter through and match you to new scholarships you should consider applying for.

Each time you log into Fastweb you'll be greeted with new scholarships that are a perfect match.
Organize your scholarship matches with to mark what you’ve already applied for and icons as a reminder to apply for your favorite scholarships.
Sign up for email reminders of important or large scholarships you shouldn't miss applying for.

Content Experts

Our seasoned editorial team has worked in the higher education industry. Coming from first-generation and low-income families, some Fastweb content experts have first-hand experiences related to the struggle to pay for school.

Our editorial team truly has a passion to ensure students know exactly how to prepare for, succeed in and pay for college, or vocational colleges.
Gain insider information; our content experts have a combined 20+ years of working in higher education.
Our writers cover a variety of topics related to current high school students, the vocational student, college students and parents.

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FAFSA amplifies the importance of other financial aid resources like the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). In addition to scholarships, the FAFSA is another key component to help students and their families pay for college or accredited trade schools.

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Scholarship Winners that use Fastweb Are Saying...

Don't stop applying for scholarships just because you aren't winning initially. I had to apply to over 30 before I started seeing the dividends, but it was totally worth it!

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Never give up; eventually someone will give you a scholarship.

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Apply to a lot of scholarships. You never know what a certain scholarship is looking for as the scholarship process is a whole different ballgame than college admissions. It is best to increase your probability of winning a scholarship by applying to a lot.

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