Free Money for Graduate School: A Guide to More Than 1,000 Grants and Scholarships for Graduate Study

by Laurie Blum

Book Overview

Arranged generally by college curricula . . . this excellent guide cites each grant-giver's address, phone number, restrictions, deadlines, and amounts. Blum shows where some of the money to fund the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816042799
• ISBN13: 9780816042791
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Checkmark Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

This book is fantastic!

I felt compelled to write a review for this book after reading over the others that had been written. This book seems to have gotten poor reviews from people who don't have any idea about how to research grant opportunities. There is no reason in the world for a grant guide to invest 5,000 or so pages itemizing grants available at individual institutions - the most up-to-date and thorough sources for this kind of information will always be the institutions themselves. A quick scan of any grad school guide will indicate which institutions are most generous with funding for a given field. From there, you just contact your top five choices. Personally, I would never spend $100 on a tome that simply duplicates information available elsewhere.I am equally baffled by the reviewer that complains about the general nature of the entries. If you're looking for degree-specific funding, there are web sites for profesisonal organizations that can help you.I found this book to do exactly what it should. It provides detailed information about grants that you are unlikely to come across from other sources. After you contact instiutional grant offices and research funding for your specific degree, this book provides a wealth of information about those grants that are more hidden away in the woodwork. For the 2001-2002 academic year, and as a doctoral student in an obscure humanities field, I have been awarded $85,000 intended to support myself and my spouse during the final phases of dissertation completion. These funds are the product of the information provided by this book, which I can't recommend highly enough.It sounds as though the other reviewers are disappointed that one volume has not done all their work for them. For this, I would not blame Laurie Blum, but rather, the naivete of these readers.