What is the Earn to Learn Scholarship?

The Earn to Learn scholarship, at a high level, is a matched-savings scholarship. We see it as a tool that helps empower eligible students to successfully complete a postsecondary education. Postsecondary education? This includes your traditional 4 year universities, community colleges, trade schools, and short-term credential programs. The organization and scholarship was established in 2013 and is the largest and most successful matched-savings scholarship program in the country. It combines student savings with scholarships, financial training, and education success coaching to help eligible students obtain an education and graduate workforce-ready with little to no student loan debt. Basically, our founder saw an issue with the lack of availability of educational opportunities, the ever-growing student loan debt crisis, and decided to do something about it.

How does it work?

Eligible students and their families deposit $500 into a savings account each year, then receive an 8:1 match through combined university support and other public and philanthropic funding. This creates $4,500 per academic year in total available funds for tuition, fees, room and board, and other costs to support educational success.

Here’s what the typical journey might look like:

Interested?

Join our 2,500+ talented, responsible and determined students who are working hard towards furthering their education with little to no student loan debt.

Need a little more information?

We’ve got you covered. Our team is passionate about helping and making a difference in the lives of students. So, if you would rather talk to someone, then click here to reach out to us or, if you’d prefer to read, then simply continue on down the page.

What Makes Us Different?

We enlist students as investors in their own education, so they’ll have a stake in their success. We empower them with financial training to ensure they can navigate their personal financial responsibility and improve their economic mobility. And we support them with postsecondary education success coaching, business mentorship and workforce development. These Earn to Learn “pillars” comprise a groundbreaking, holistic approach to financial preparation for higher education with remarkable results.

Is the Earn to Learn scholarship for you?

We get it, this sounds great, but you want to know if this even applies to you and you’re specific scenario. While we can’t cover every possible scenario, we can certainly help narrow things down.

Facts about the Scholarship:

• 65% are first generation university students
• 85% are ethnic minorities
• Ages span from 18 to 73
• We have educational partners that are trade schools, community colleges, and universities.

Are you applying to a (postsecondary school)?

What do we mean by postsecondary? This could be a traditional 4 year university, a community college, a trade school, or short-term credential program. There may also be other opportunities, so make sure to reach out and ask questions about your specific scenario, we’re happy to help.

Eligibility:

This will depend partly on the institution to which you’re applying. Each school will have their own eligibility requirements and that is provided on our individual education partner links below:

Education Partners:

New Partnerships in the works:

We currently have 5 pending partnerships and 2 more that are in the works.

Intrigued but still not sure? Sign up here (don’t worry we won’t spam you), we’ll add you to the early interest list. What does that mean? There’s no commitment, just a reminder for us to reach out via email to see if you have any questions and we’ll include you on the email announcement for when the scholarship application goes live.

What does the Earn To Learn process look like?

Would it be alright if we reached out?

We’d love to answer any questions you may have about Earn to Learn that weren’t answered here, maybe about the scholarship, our process, our model, or something else?