External Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students
Keep in mind
- Scholarship requirements and deadlines can change from year to year.
- Double-check all deadline information listed below with the funding source directly.
- This list is not exhaustive, please be aware there are other opportunities, some listings include a search engine with more opportunities.
- Listing a scholarship does not constitute the university's endorsement.
- Not all international applicants will be eligible for all opportunities, some scholarships have accepted country lists.
Throughout-the-year opportunities:
Deadlines
- Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD)
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic applicants
- Deadline: Early January
- Computer & Information Systems Lab Internship
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- Deadline: Mid-to-end of January
- Department of Energy / Krell Institute Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF)
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- Deadline: Mid-January
- Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Fellowship
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- Deadline Mid-January
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic applicants
- Deadline: February
- Tau Beta Phi Fellowship:
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- Deadline: February
- Draper Scholars
- "Enrolled in a thesis-bearing degree program"
- U.S. citizen applicants
- Deadline: February
- none listed
- Google Student Veterans of America Scholarship
- Must be an undergraduate when you apply
- Must be a Veteran
- April deadline
- Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- May and November deadlines
- Google PhD Fellowships
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- May deadlines
- None listed
- None listed
- IBM PhD Fellowship Program
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants from non-embargoed countries
- August deadline
- NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Computer Science & Engineering
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- September deadline
- The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
- PhD or 'terminal masters program'
- Domestic and international applicants who will not need visa sponsorship to attend the 12-week program
- September deadline
- Fulbright Program for Foreign Students
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- September deadline
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Scholarships
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- October deadline
- National Science Foundation Fellowships
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic applicants
- October 19th deadline
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- November deadline
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Foundation Dissertation Scholarships
- PhD
- Domestic applicants
- November deadline
- Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
- PhD
- Domestic and International applicants
- May and November deadlines
- GEM Fellowship Program
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- November deadline
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG)
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic applicants
- November deadline
- Office of Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP)
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- November deadline
- Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD)
- PhD and MS students
- U.S. citizens
- December deadline
- International Peace Scholarship
- PhD and MS students
- International applicants
- December deadline
- DoD SMART Scholarships
- PhD and MS students
- Domestic and International applicants
- December deadline