Fellowships play a key role in supporting graduate and professional students, much like scholarships for undergrads. Each year, nearly $1 billion in private scholarships benefits close to 200,000 graduate students. While Ph.D. candidates often have an advantage, over half of these awards go to Master’s students, and around 20% support those in professional degree programs, highlighting their broad reach across advanced 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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