Fastweb

Fastweb is an online service to help students pay for college through scholarships, financial aid, part-time job search, and private student loan options.

For other uses, see Fastweb (disambiguation).

History

Founded by Larry Organ[1] in 1995, Fastweb is an acronym for "financial aid search through the web". In 1999, Mark Kantrowitz, who created the financial aid website FinAid.org, began working with Organ to develop a site that provided financial aid advice to users as well.

In 2001, Monster Worldwide, which also owns other websites such as Military.com, announced it had acquired Fastweb.[2] Monster was acquired in 2016 by Randstad Holding.

Reception

Though sometimes touted among lists of scholarship search tools,[3] Fastweb has received mixed to negative reviews from NAAS Consumer News[4] and from multiple other reviewers,[5] such as CBS News MoneyWatch for showing students many ads while using the website, and generating "zero promising matches for users".[6]

References
  1. "About Fastweb". Fastweb.
  2. Carlson, Scott (July 27, 2001). "Big Online Job Service Acquires Website on College Admissions". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  3. "CBS News Reporter Debunks Myth of FastWeb Scholarship Search Services, and other prime Scholarship Search Services". NAAS-News. October 13, 2013.
  4. "Fastweb.com reviews: Is Fastweb.Com a legitimate search service?". NAAS.org Consumer News. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  5. "CBS News Reporter Debunks Myth of FastWeb Scholarship Search Services, and other prime Scholarship Search Services". NAAS-News. October 13, 2013.
  6. "Do college scholarship search engines work?". CBS News Money Watch. October 8, 2013.


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