Fellowships are essential for graduate and professional students, offering support similar to undergraduate scholarships. Each year, over $1 billion in private scholarships is awarded to almost 200,000 deserving grad students. Although Ph.D. candidates often have an edge, more than half of these fellowships go to Master’s students. Additionally, about 20% of the funds are designated for those pursuing professional degrees, showcasing the wide-ranging support available across various advanced study fields.
The following are some of the more well-known graduate fellowship programs.
Arts and Humanities
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships in Humanistic Studies
- Beinecke Scholarship
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
- James Madison Graduate Fellowships
- Mellon Foundation Fellowships
- Skadden Foundation Fellowships
- Social Science Research Council Fellowships
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowships
Education
General Fellowships
- American Association of University Women Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
- Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
International Study
- Fulbright Scholar Program
- Gates Cambridge Scholarships
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Institute of International Education (IIE)
- Marshall Scholarships
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
Science, Mathematics and Engineering
- AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowships
- GEM Fellowship Program (National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science)
- Graduate Women in Science National Fellowships Program
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships in Applied Physical Sciences
- National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG)
- National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Graduate Fellowships in Science, Mathematics and Engineering
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Robert H. Goddard Memorial Scholarship
- U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellowships
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Winston Churchill Scholarship
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