Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
1. Use online search tools to search graduate student funding opportunities that fit your needs. One useful online search tool is InfoEd SPIN, which provides intuitive and easily customizable access to an extensive research funding opportunity database. SPIN provides both active searching as well as automated, daily or weekly opportunity notifications. Learn how to create your registration and set up your customized searches and funding alerts.
Other useful online search tools for graduate student funding opportunities include FastWeb Database, Pathways to Science, College Scholarships, STEMGradStudents.science.gov, and UCLA Searchable database.
2. Visit the Graduate School’s Site for Fellowships and Grants to find graduate student funding opportunities.
3. Visit the links below for opportunities to fund your graduate education through graduate fellowships that cover salary and possibly tuition and other costs. Many of the opportunities are for students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, but there are a few opportunities that are open to international graduate students as well.
- American Association of University Women AAUW Fellowships
- Boren Awards/ Boren Fellowships Sustainability Science
- Department of Defense National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Department of Energy DoE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program
- Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program
- Environmental Protection Agency Research Fellowships
- Fannie & John Hertz Foundation – Hertz Foundation Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships
- Fulbright Scholar Program
- GEM Fellowship Program
- Graduate Women in Science
- James Dyson Award Program
- Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust
- McKnight Doctoral Fellowships
- NASA – Graduate Student Researchers Program
- National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship NDSEG
- National Institute of Health Research Fellowships
- National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences
- National Science Foundation NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program GRFP
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation SMART Scholarships
4. Visit the links below for scholarships that are meant to supplement your graduate studies and / or research rather than cover your salary and tuition, and are usually $5,000 or less. Many of the opportunities are for students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, but there are a few opportunities that are open to international graduate students as well.
- Affordable Colleges Online’s Financial Aid for Grad School
- Affordable Colleges Online’s Get Help Paying for Your Graduate Certificate
- American Association of Textiles Chemist Scholarships
- American Association of University Women AAUW Fellowships
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- Institute for Broadening Participation IBP Pathways to Science – Graduate Student Programs and Fellowships
- Institute of International Education Fellowships
- James Dyson Award Program
- NC Sea Grant/NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
- NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants SBE DDRIG
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Graduate Student Research Opportunities
- Sigma Xi – Grants-in-Aid of Research
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowships
- Social Science Research Council