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Graduate students may apply for one of two types of externally funded fellowships: those administered at least in part by the Graduate School and those that are wholly extramural - meaning students should apply directly.
Externally funded fellowship administered by the Graduate School:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The Graduate School administers and selects nominees for:
Finally, it selects nominees for the following, administered by the external program:
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program offers five-year graduate fellowships (including three years of full stipend support) for students in science and engineering fields.
Fellowships are intended for students who have completed no more than 12 months of full-time graduate study. Committees look for strong grade-point average and GRE scores. About 1,000 awards are offered nationwide.
Eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens or nationals studying mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, or social sciences, including the history and philosophy of science.
- Application Deadline: Variable dependent on proposed field of study.
- Stipend: $37,000 plus tuition and fees, renewable for as many as three years.
Visit the program page to learn more about the application process.
ConTex-CONACYT Doctoral Fellowships
Doctoral students from Mexico may receive up to five years of financial support that will include tuition, a monthly stipend and support for health insurance.
Wholly Extramural Fellowships
External fellowships available to students that are wholly extramural to the Graduate School—meaning students should apply directly—include the following:
- American Anthropological Association Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program
- American Association of University Women - Austin Branch
- American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Fellowship
- American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship Program
- American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
- American Sociological Association
- Archaeological Institute of America
- British Marshall Scholarship
- Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies Fellowship
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
- Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
- Environmental Protection Agency
- The Hertz Fellowship
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- Homeland Security Fellowship
- J. Paul Getty Foundation Fellowship
- Knowles Foundation Teaching and Research Fellowship
- Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs Innovations)
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Population Council Fellowships
- Presidential Management Internship
- Rhodes Scholarship
- History of Art Institutional Fellowships
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
- Social Science Research Council
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- The Library Company of Philadelphia
- Welch Foundation Scholarship
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
- Williams College-Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship
- Winston Churchill Fellowship
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies
- Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
- Zonta International Foundation - Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award
- The Palantir Foundation Fellowships
- Trudeau Foundation Fellowship Program