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CareerOneStop Scholarship Finder
CareerOneStop Scholarship Finder is the United States Department of Labor's scholarship database for students and adult learners nationwide, listing 1,000-10,000 scholarships. You can search by keyword, study level, award type and state, or by affiliation such as employer, military service or union. No account is needed, and each result opens a short detail page.
Best for: Students and adult learners who want an ad-free government search they can filter by level, state and award type without signing up.
Limitation: There is no county or major filter, so local results include other areas; many listings lack amounts, and deadlines may be out of date.
Public DOL CareerOneStop product. No account required to browse. Pair it with your state aid office and hometown foundation searches.
Our rating
3.2out of 5
What our research found
Matching Power (2.5 / 5)
- State, study level, award type and affiliation filters combine.
- Keyword search and sorting by deadline, name or amount.
- No filters for financial need, merit, major or school.
- Filtered results still include many county or school limited awards.
Scholarship Quality (2.5 / 5)
- Nearly every award links to a live sponsor page, usually its homepage.
- Almost no deadline shows a current year.
- Most awards show no amount.
Ease of Use (4.5 / 5)
- On phones, state and level filters apply clearly.
- Filters survive the Back button.
- Each award is two clicks from its organization link, with no login.
Privacy & Marketing (4.5 / 5)
- No account or personal data is needed to search.
- No ads, and analytics run in anonymous mode.
- Some commercial contests appear near the top of results.
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 A 1 means most are out of date, incomplete or do not lead to the sponsor, and in the middle you will need to double check a fair share.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.