External Funding Sources
General Resources to Find Funding
The following are searchable databases of graduate student funding opportunities:
The CISC HBCU Graduate Fellowship Program (CHFP), funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation runs through the 2023-2024 academic year (Sept-June) and the application deadline is now extended to 11:59pm CT on Friday, August 11, 2023. This partnership between CISC of Tuskegee University and INFAS of UC Davis will:
The Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program is a great opportunity (students complete part of their dissertation research at a National Lab)
Numerous opportunities for graduate funding can also be found through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund:
- Thurgood Marshall College Fund - Open Scholarships
- Thurgood Marshall College Fund - Corporate Scholar Programs
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Internship Programs
Specific Funding Opportunities
The specific graduate student funding opportunities below are organized in order of deadline (by month). The deadlines are normally around the same time each year.
January Deadline:
September Deadline:
- The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program
March Deadline - Southern Education Foundation Leadership Initiative
October Deadline:
- National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program
November Deadline:
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Student Fellowships
- GEM Fellowships
- NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO)
- Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP)
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
December Deadline:
