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
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- 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 Fellowship
- Presidential Management Internship
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
- Social Science Research Council
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- The Library Company of Philadelphia
- The Palantir Foundation Fellowships
- Welch Foundation Scholarship
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
- Williams College-Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship
- Winston Churchill Fellowship
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Zonta International Foundation - Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award