Every listing on this page names the body that actually awards the money and links to that body's own page. That is deliberate, and it is the single most useful habit we can pass on: a scholarship you cannot confirm at its source is not a scholarship you should be applying to. Legitimate awards are published by the university, government or foundation funding them, and they never charge a fee to apply.
Deadlines move, and some awards run on cycles that shift by months from one year to the next. Where we are not certain a date is current we say dates to confirm rather than printing last year's and hoping. Treat every date here as a prompt to go and check, not as the deadline itself.
The awards on this page are the well-known ones, and they are correspondingly competitive. They are not the whole picture: universities, individual departments, employers and professional bodies all administer smaller awards that are far less contested precisely because nobody advertises them. Our guide to the funding students overlook covers how to find those, and spotting a scholarship scam covers what a real award never asks you for.