§ Methodology

Scholarship programs.

How named scholarship programs are recorded: what we read, what each field means, and what you should not infer from any of it.

Sourcing rules

Every fact comes from the school’s own pages, or from the page of a foundation the school is tied to (named as such). Third-party scholarship lists are used only to find programs, never as a source of terms. We read the page, record what it says with a locator, and note the date we read it. We do not copy the school’s text; we paraphrase it and quote at most 25 words.

Field definitions

Program. A named award or package, kept under one stable id across years and renamings.

Entering class. The class a version of the terms applies to, when the school’s page names it. Many pages give deadlines only, and then we do not guess the class.

Offer. A variant inside a program: resident or nonresident, or a tier. A tier lists only what it adds, so we say what it builds on.

Benefit. One component, such as tuition, housing, or a stipend, with how much of it the school says it covers and any cap or condition.

Considered is not guaranteed. “Considered” means the program looks at your application. “Automatic” appears only when the school’s page promises the award to everyone who meets the stated requirements.

A waiver is not a scholarship. A tuition waiver, such as a nonresident differential, is named as a waiver and is never counted as tuition covered.

We do not add up totals. We never sum components, multiply a yearly amount, or turn “up to” into a promise. If the school quotes a total, we show it as a quote with the scope the school gave.

Separate application. Whether the program needs its own form, as the school describes it. “Not stated” means the page does not say.

Deadlines. The school’s own dates. A date that recurs each year without a year is shown as recurring and is never turned into a dated deadline. Confirm every date on the official page.

Renewal and stacking. What the school says about keeping the award and combining it with other aid. Blank means not documented; it does not mean none.

Counts. Numbers a school publishes about how many awards it makes, labeled as a target or as reported. They are not odds.

What the freshness lines mean

Terms for a stated entering class. The page names the class. We print it and the date we read the page.

Dates, but no stated class. The page gives dated deadlines but does not name the entering class. We print the month the dates run through and do not guess the class.

The page names no year. The page gives neither a class nor a dated deadline. We print the date we read it. After the next July 1 we show it as a past cycle.

Past cycle (amber). The dates or class on the page have passed, or the school marks the program as an earlier cycle. We never carry last year’s dates forward.

Pages disagree (amber). The school’s own pages give different figures. We say what differs and send you to the official page.

Not re-read for this cycle. A change was flagged and has not been reviewed yet.

What not to infer

  • A missing field is not a no. “Not stated” means the page did not say.
  • This is not a list of the best scholarships, and sorting is never by generosity.
  • Award counts are not odds. A program that offers “up to 44” does not tell you your chance of receiving one.
  • A named award does not explain the CDS merit figures. The two are documented separately, with their own years.
  • The list is partial and leans toward selective schools. A school not listed has not been documented yet.
  • Nothing here is a personalized estimate of cost or award.

Report a correction

Found a figure that does not match the school’s page? Open a correction. We ask for the official page URL and what differs. We do not ask for your name, email, or any information about a student.

Open a correction ↗

Reuse and credit

The data is free to read, query and download. If you use it, credit it with this line:

Scholarship program data from collegedata.fyi (https://collegedata.fyi/scholarships), CC BY-SA 4.0. Terms as published by each school; see the source link on each record.

CC BY-SA 4.0 also asks that anything you build from our descriptions and record format be shared under the same license. That is the share-alike part: you may adapt the data, and you pass the same terms on.

What the license does not cover: the schools’ own pages, their trademarks, and short quoted excerpts. Those stay with the schools.

Cite this dataset

APA

collegedata.fyi. (2026). Scholarship program data [Data set]. https://collegedata.fyi/scholarships. CC BY-SA 4.0.

BibTeX

@misc{collegedatafyi2026scholarships,
  author       = {{collegedata.fyi}},
  title        = {Scholarship program data},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://collegedata.fyi/scholarships}},
  note         = {CC BY-SA 4.0. Terms as published by each school.}
}

Sources and API

The public view is scholarship_directory: one row per program per participating school, with license and attribution columns on every row. The broader API is documented at /api.

curl 'https://api.collegedata.fyi/rest/v1/scholarship_directory?school_id=eq.university-of-tulsa&select=official_name,entry_year,freshness_status,key_deadline,sources,attribution' \
  -H 'apikey: <anon key>' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <anon key>'

The list is documented by hand and is partial. See all documented programs.