
Sallie Mae is a private loan provider with a variety of loan options ranging in loan duration and interest rates. Meritize is a lender for non-traditional educational loans who looks beyond FICO scores and uses your previous academic, military and work achievements to enhance your credit evaluation and improve your loan options. Lenders known to have provided student loans in the past for our Cybersecurity Bootcamp In the interests of helping you find interested lenders we will list below organizations and programs that we are aware of which have provided loans to prior students. Students interested in financing their tuition through a loan are encouraged to consider and approach multiple lenders for the best financing that suits their needs, and students are neither required nor requested to use any particular lender. TechRochester is offering $1,500 scholarships to Rochester area residents who have been displaced as a result of COVID and are pursuing an IT certification to help shift their career. More information can be found at the link below even if you do not live in Monroe County, New York, and with your local employment counselor. If interested, regardless of where you live, you will need to contact and work with your local employment counselor at your local unemployment office to assess your eligibility and apply for a grant. It may often be true that cybersecurity is not specifically listed but IT support is and our program is good training for that kind of entry level position as well. The ETPL program is used to identify training that may be federally funded under the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) meaning that you may be eligible for up to $5,000, even if you do not live in New York State through state reciprocity agreements.Įligibility is based on several factors that are regionally specific, including if the job being trained for is identified in the local region as one in demand. The Cybersecurity Bootcamp is a training provider program on the New York State Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL) and can be found at the ETPL. If you apply and are found eligible for multiple, you may be able to receive the scholarships simultaneously, further reducing program costs, depending on availability.Īpply Here > Training Grants for Unemployed and Under-Employed Workers:
These will be awarded to a limited number of applicants meeting the following conditions: 1) United States citizens or permanent residents currently on unemployment and/or 2) from diverse populations/underrepresented backgrounds. There are three scholarship programs currently available. Scholarships are available to those who qualify.