External Funding Sources
General Resources to Find Funding
The following are searchable databases of graduate student funding opportunities:
Numerous opportunities for graduate funding can also be found through the following resources:
- Thurgood Marshall College Fund - Open Scholarships
- 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
- Department of Energy -- Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
- GEM Fellowships
- NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO)
- Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP)
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
December Deadline:
