{"id":70554,"date":"2016-06-17T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70554"},"modified":"2016-06-17T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:55:36","slug":"delta-state-among-best-for-private-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/06\/delta-state-among-best-for-private-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State among best for private scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LendEDU, an online resource\u00a0for information on student loans, recently ranked Delta State University among the Top 150 universities in the nation for providing private scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing data licensed from Peterson&#8217;s\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\">https:\/\/www.petersons.com<\/a>),\u00a0LendEDU c<span class=\"s1\">alculated the average amount of non-need based private scholarship funding per student at 1,000 colleges and universities. Delta State came in at No. 131 on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Clearly, the top ranked schools are doing a great job encouraging their students to seek additional sources of scholarship funding,&#8221; said\u00a0LendEDU, in a press release. &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">We think the results of our study are interesting, relevant and eye opening.\u00a0Before you apply for a student loan, you should look for scholarships and grants to help cover your cost of attendance. Scholarships are a great way to finance your education. Unlike student loans, scholarships do not need to be paid back. And, according to College Board, there is $122 billion in scholarship funding awarded to students each year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LendEDU&#8217;s study found that on average, the students winning the most private scholarships are coming from small to mid-sized schools.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2014, LendEDU was created to help student loan borrowers find transparency without damaging their credit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more information on the survey, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lendedu.com\/blog\/june-private-scholarships-study\">https:\/\/lendedu.com\/blog\/june-private-scholarships-study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LendEDU, an online resource\u00a0for information on student loans, recently ranked Delta State University among the Top 150 universities in the nation for providing private scholarships. Utilizing data licensed from Peterson&#8217;s\u00a0(https:\/\/www.petersons.com),\u00a0LendEDU&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,246],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-70554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-students","tag-scholarships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70561,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70554\/revisions\/70561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}