Research Grants
Dissertation/MFA Completion Fellowships
Travel Grants
Other Awards & Grants
Emergency Funding
- Graduate Student Emergency Aid Fund
Intended to help meet the financial needs of Boulder graduate students who encounter an emergency situation resulting in unforeseen expenses during their degree program. This program does not cover students enrolled in the Law School or the Leeds MBA program. If you have questions, please reach out to us at graduate.contest@colorado.edu. Apply here: https://grad.apply.colorado.edu/register/GSfundingadmingeneralform. - Medical Expense Assistance Fund
The Student Health Board’s Medical Expense Assistance Fund (MEAF) is designed to financially assist students who are unable to pay incurred medical bills or prescription costs. - ISSS Emergency Financial Grants
Every fall and spring semester, ISSS awards limited emergency grant funds for continuing International students with unexpected financial emergencies. Grant amounts vary according to available funds and demonstrated need. - Fire Resources
CU Boulder community members impacted by the December 30, 2021 fires may apply for emergency funds via the Staff & Faculty Emergency Fund. Campus Support Resources are also available.
Note: CU Boulder has a responsibility to provide a safe and nondiscriminatory environment. If you disclose in an application having been impacted by sexual misconduct, protected-class discrimination or harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking, or related retaliation, we are required to share that information to the CU Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC) for outreach regarding support and reporting options. You are not required to respond to OIEC. If you are in need of support, click here for a list of resources, including confidential assistance. If you have questions before you want to submit this type of information, please contact the confidential Office of Victim Assistance.
Additionally, please note that the university takes disclosures around threat of harm to self or others seriously and when information of this nature is received, it will be shared with the appropriate offices to offer additional support and resources.