#1 — Tutoring job for college students

Just by being admitted to a college, you already proved that you are reputable. Tutoring is one of the highest paying jobs for college students. You can tutor other college students or high school students. For example, you can help someone with an upcoming test, explain a chapter or entire subject, or provide essay writing tips.

You could find peer tutoring programs at the university. You can find tutoring opportunities online as well as using sites such as Chegg Tutors, TakeLessons, Maestro, and Skillshare.

Earning Potential: Tutors make $25 to $100/hours. It all depends on what you are teaching.

#2 — College students can help high school students and their parents for getting into college

You have gone through the complicated college admission process. Why not become a guide and show the road to others? There are so many high school kids who will need help with ACT/SAT preparation. They will have questions while filling college applications; they will need tips on essay writing. Scholarships are another big area where you can help someone to earn need-based or merit-based scholarships.

Additional examples include:

Tutoring high school students for ACT & SAT

Help in writing college applications

Help in matching scholarships

Essays writing tips and essay review

Earning Potential: Tutors make $25 to $100/hours. It all depends on what you are teaching.

#3 — Part-time job on the college campus

Research Assistant

You can work as a research assistant for one of your professors. You can also find a research opportunity outside the campus as a research analyst for a business.

Research Study Participant

Work on the other side of the research by participating in paid research studies. Typically the Psychology department is an excellent place to see if they are doing any research studies and are looking for participants.

Library Assistant

Library jobs are relatively high paying employments, and you get to interact with other students and professors.

Campus Tour Guide

In this job, you will give a college tour to new students and parents. This job will provide you with public speaking experience, and a chance to convince prospective students to attend your university.

Resident Advisor in the Dorms

This job isn’t a paid position, but give s chance to have free room & board during your college years. The resident advisor helps with Dorm management, such as answering phones, giving tours, enforce security and rules, move-in/move-out help to students. The best part, you can do homework during your shift.

Earning Potential: The average pay for these jobs varies.

#4 — A part-time job at local businesses

Working as a waiter at local restaurants

Working as a waiter is an accessible and convenient job for college students. You can choose to work evening and weekend hours.

Earning Potential: Mostly minimum wages plus tips.

Sales associate

You can be a sales associate at a local store. Most stores offer flexible schedules, and you have an option to increase your hours during holidays. A sales associate job involves talking to customers, assisting with product selection, making sales, organizing store inventory, handling cash, promoting store credit cards, etc.

Earning Potential: Mostly minimum wages plus commission.

Book shop Receptionist

You can join customer service at a local book shop such as Barnes & Noble and Books-a-millions. These book stores have evening and weekend hours. As an added benefit, you will get discounts on your books.

Gym Receptionist

Most Gyms offer flexible schedules, and you have an option to increase your hours during weekends. Gyms are typically open for extended hours, which makes them a perfect job destination for college students. Typical work involves providing Gym tours, checking-in guests, signing up new members, and cleaning equipment.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a Gym receptionist is approximately $12/hour.

Hotel Front Desk Receptionist

Students can pick a flexible schedule as most hotel reception counters are open 24 hours. Late-night shifts may also allow for plenty of downtime for you to study while working at the hotel’s front desk during the night.

It involves greeting and checking in/checking out hotel guests, answering questions and responding to complaints, answering phone calls, and ensuring that room service is responding to guest requests.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a Hotel Front Desk Receptionist is approximately $10/hour.

#5 — Call Center jobs for college students

Call center job offers to work from home, which is excellent for college students. Most call center companies provide flexible schedules to fit their employee’s needs.

Call center companies provide training and a “scripts” for handling different topics. Type of work, depending upon the company, involves resolving customer issues, selling a service or a product, collection of pending payment, etc.

All you need is a phone, a computer, a quiet place to take phone calls. If you know more than one language, then it is a plus.

Synchrony Financial is one such company that provides opportunities to college students.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a call center job is approximately $13/hour.

#6 — Pet care such as dog walker, dog sitter, pet cleaning

If you love pets, then this can be an ideal opportunity for you. Websites such as Rover provide on-demand earning opportunities in which you can find pet care jobs such as dog walking based on your availability. This means that if you are not doing anything special one night, then you can take care of a pet by doing dog sitting or pet sitting and earn money. Options include dog walking, pet cleanup, driving a pet to vet clinics,

Earning Potential: The average pay for pet care has a wide range. For example, dog walking is approximately $20 to $30 per 30-minute dog walk.

#8 — Social Media Assistant

An ideal job for college students. It allows for remote working, and most college students already know social media. In fact, you also know what the younger generation wants. It includes running a social media campaign, scheduling social posts, replying to customers, researching for an article, and search engine optimization.

Similar jobs include

Bloggers — many businesses hire bloggers to create engaging and relatable content for their websites.

Graphics designers — If you know how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, there are endless job possibilities for you. You can work as a freelance designer for local businesses or find an internship at a local marketing agency.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a social media assistants is approximately $16/hour.

#7 — Writing opportunities for college students

Writing jobs is my favorite recommendation. You can do this alongside other part-time jobs. You decide when to write and what to write. A platform such as Medium.com pays you for your writing based on how many readers engaging with it.

You can also find freelance writing work in which you will provide writing and editing services to your clients. You may also find jobs related to research for an article.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a social media assistants is approximately $12 to $60/hour. The average pay for writing on a platform such as Medium varies.

#9 — Virtual assistant jobs for college students

A virtual assistant helps businesses and personals with daily tasks such as reading and replying to emails, responding to social media, scheduling appointments, booking travel reservations, research, input data, social media, and more. If you are organized, computer savvy, good with writing, then this could be your thing. Any past administrative experience will be a plus.

Earning Potential: The average pay for a virtual assistant is approximately $15/hour.

10 — Online user testing

Companies such as usertesting.com, trymyui.com pays you to perform some testing for them. Software and website development companies request for these tests so that they can improve their products.

To do this, first, you will have to join their program. Once approved, you will visit the website or an app and complete a set of tasks and get paid for doing so.

Earning Potential: The average pay for user testing is approximately $30/hour. Well, one test typically takes 20 minutes and pays $10.

College students have a lot of options to find part-time jobs. Check out one of the options outlined in this article. Working during your college years will not only earn you money, but you will also build long-lasting connections to help you in the future.

Most importantly, a part-time job will help you build your character.