The following is a list of nationally competitive graduate fellowships organized by deadline. Please note, this is not a list of all the graduate fellowships available. In order to develop a personalized search based on your research interests, please use the searchable database Pivot.
If you have any questions about applying for any graduate research fellowships, contact The Office of Graduate Studies.
September/October
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants (for students in education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Cambridge Scholarships (for US students in any field wanting to study at Cambridge)
- Department of Energy NNSA Graduate Program (for students interested in a career in nuclear security)
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program (for students of the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences)
- Fulbright Fellowships for International Study (for students in all fields of study)
- GEM Fellowships (for students who are members of underrepresented groups in science and engineering)
- Microsoft Research PhD Fellowships (for students in engineering, computer science, and mathematics)
- National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowships (for students with dissertations on “the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere”)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (for students in all fields supported by the NSF)
- Rhodes Scholarship (for students in all fields interested in studying in Oxford)
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies (for students “whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways”)
November
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (for students in health, physical, earth , social and behavioral sciences; computational sciences and mathematics, and engineering disciplines)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships (for students in all fields of study, though those in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply)
- Ford Foundation Fellowships (for students in research-based, rather than practice-oriented, fields)
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (for students in all fields supported by the NIJ)
- National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships (for students in physical sciences and engineering fields)
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (for New Americans, immigrants, or the children of immigrants studying in any field)
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (for students interested in independent study related to Smithsonian facilities, experts, or collection)
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowships (for students in all fields of the humanities and social sciences)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Dissertation Fieldwork Grants (for students in anthropology-related fields)
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Charlotte W. Newcomb Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (for students in all fields of the humanities and social sciences)
- Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards (for female students in aerospace-related science and engineering fields)
December
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Cambridge Scholarships (for non-US students in any field wanting to study at Cambridge)
- Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) (for students in specific fields of science and engineering)
- International Peace Scholarship (for female students from other countries for graduate study in the United States and Canada)
- Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Program (for students in the area of societal production and utilization of energy)
- US Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (for students in the mathematical, physical, biological, ocean, and engineering sciences)
January-February
- American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (for students interested in the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and the government/nonprofit sectors)
- American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowships (for students in the atmospheric or related sciences)
- Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship (for students with work combining disciplines such as computer science, applied mathematics, and computational science applications)
- Chateaubriand Fellowship – Humanities and Social Sciences (for US citizens doing research in France)
- Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowships (for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields)
- DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (for students in basic and applied research in science and engineering, especially high energy physics and material sciences)
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Scholarships (for students in all fields)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Medical Research Fellows Program (for students interested in research in any medical field)
- Facebook Fellowship (for students in computer science and engineering)
- Link Foundation Fellowships in Modeling, Simulation and Training (for students in energy, simulation, and ocean engineering and instrumentation research)
- National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateships (for students in science and engineering)
- National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowships (for students to study less commonly taught languages in the world)
- Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program (for students in biomedical engineering)
March-June
Continuous Deadlines
- Charles Koch Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (for students in all disciplines)