Other ways to pay
Community service
Community service opportunities allow you to make a difference in the lives of those needing the most help.
While community service programs can give you some money to pay for college, that's nothing compared to the experiences you gain, the satisfaction you feel, and the friends you make while helping others.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engages more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. Through AmeriCorps, students can receive money to help pay for school. Serve full time, usually for a term lasting 10–12 months, to be eligible for an education award of up to $4,725. Working part time offers eligibility for a partial award.
For more information, visit AmeriCorps.
Learn and Serve America
This national service grant program combines school curriculum and community service. Grants are used to create new programs or provide training and development to staff, faculty, and volunteers.
For more details, visit the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Peace Corps
Over 7,700 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 72 countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Volunteers receive intensive language and cross-cultural training to become part of the communities where they live. They speak the local language and adapt to the cultures and customs of the people they work with.
Learn more about the Peace Corps.
Military service
Learn how serving your country can help pay for school.