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AACN Nursing Scholarships & Financial Aid
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) runs a scholarship hub for nursing and pre-nursing students across the United States. It lists AACN's own awards, several with its Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA), beside federal nursing aid and outside sponsor awards. Browsing needs no account; AACN awards are applied for through its portal login.
Best for: Nursing students, especially graduate students or those at AACN member schools, looking for nursing-specific awards in one place.
Limitation: Many AACN awards require GNSA membership or a member school, and outside awards are a link list without filters.
Major professional association for nursing education. Not a single mega-application. Prefer this over generic nursing listicles when you want association context.
Our rating
3.1out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (2.0 / 5)
- No filters or search for the foundation's own awards.
- Awards are grouped for undergraduate and graduate nursing students.
- The award list marks each scholarship open or closed.
- Award pages state member school and grade point average rules.
Scholarship Quality (3.5 / 5)
- AACN award pages state eligibility, amount and dates.
- One graduate award is labeled open outside its application window.
- Some AACN awards give dates only, with no application link.
- Some outside links go to other aggregators or show old labels.
Ease of Use (4.0 / 5)
- Each award is one click from the scholarship hub.
- Apply Here opens AACN's application portal, where login starts.
- On phones, a cookie banner covers text, and sections collapse on Back.
Privacy & Marketing (4.0 / 5)
- No account, ads or sweepstakes on the scholarship pages.
- The policy discloses interest-based ads and Google Analytics.
- AACN rents postal mailing lists of nursing deans, not student lists.
How we rate
Matching Power
How well it helps you find the scholarships it lists, by filtering on location, need, merit, major, college and high school.
A 5 means you can narrow the list by where you live, need, merit, major, college or high school, and a big site brings the best fits to the top. A 1 means little or no way to narrow, and in the middle some filters work but many results still do not fit.
Scholarship Quality
How complete, current and traceable its scholarship listings are.
A 5 means nearly every listing is current, links to the real sponsor and gives enough detail to act on. A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.
Ease of Use
How easily you can understand the controls and reach actionable scholarship information.
A 5 means clear controls and a quick path from the list to a scholarship and its sponsor, including on a phone. A 1 means walls, confusing steps or a broken phone view keep getting in the way, and the middle is workable with some tradeoffs.
Privacy & Marketing
What data it asks for, how much advertising or sign-up pressure gets in the way, and how much control you have.
A 5 means the site asks only for what it needs, says why, keeps ads and partner offers out of the way and leaves you in control. A 1 means heavy data requests, sign-up pressure, loan offers or sweepstakes get in the way, and the middle has some of that pressure but it stays manageable.
Our ratings are our opinion of each site, not an endorsement or a prediction that you'll win.