The NYS Memorial Scholarship provides financial aid to children, spouses and financial dependents of deceased firefighters, volunteer firefighters, police officers, peace officers, and emergency medical service workers who have died as the result of injuries sustained in the line of duty in service to the State of New York.

The NYS STEM Incentive Program provides tuition awards to students who are New York State residents attending a public degree-granting college or university located in New York State. Recipients must be in the top 10 percent of students of their high school graduating class, pursue an approved, two or four-year STEM degree program and agree to live in NYS and work in a STEM field in NYS for five years after graduation.

This program provides scholarship assistance to outstanding New York State high school graduates. Each year, 8,000 scholarships are awarded - up to 2,000 scholarships of $1,500 and 6,000 scholarships of $500 to top scholars from registered New York State high schools. Awards are based on student grades in certain Regents exams. Recipients can also receive other non-loan student aid, but the total cannot exceed the cost of attendance.

The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. An annual TAP award can be up to $5,665. Because TAP is a grant, it does not have to be paid back.

The World Trade Center Memorial Scholarship (WTC) provides access to a college education for children, spouses, and financial dependents of innocent victims who died or were severely and permanently disabled as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States of America - at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on airline flights 11, 77, 93, and 175 - and the resulting rescue and recovery efforts.

The Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Program awards tuition assistance to the children of deceased or severely disabled Ohio veterans who served in the armed forces during a period of declared war or conflict.

Ohio State awards multiple scholarship levels to students based on academic achievement and financial need

To advance education by providing scholarship support for African-American graduating seniors of Glenville High School.

To help persons with an entrepreneurial spirit, at any age, attend (on a full-time basis) a college or university that is authorized to provide full credit toward a bachelor's or higher degree. Must be a resident of Cuyahoga, Lorain, Lake, or Geauga county and preference will be given to ROTC program cadets whose service leads to a commission in the United States armed forces.

The Charles Hildreth Kelso Scholarship will allocate two scholarships to a deserving African American graduating senior student from Glenville High School and Collinwood High School, both in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, with a 2.5 Grade Point Average or better, who intends to go on to college and major in education.