Fellowships
Martin Luther King Fellowship
Download Application - Deadline: April 2
Award: One fellowship of $7,000 for the academic year and a tuition award for either in-state or out-of-state students for up to 9 credits
Criteria: A 3.0 GPA and GRE scores at the 40th percentile or higher; students must be accepted to a graduate program as a matriculated student, with matching departmental financial support (minimum $1,000); students must not have exceeded the 70-credit limit to be eligible for the tuition award that accompanies this fellowship
Intended for deserving African American students; priority given to new students
Dr. Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Graduate Fellowships
Download Application - Deadline: April 2
Award: One award of $5,000 for the academic year and an in-state tuition award for up to 9 credits
Criteria: Students must not have exceeded the 70-credit limit to be eligible for the tuition award that accompanies this fellowship
Intended for underrepresented and international doctoral students
School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Download Application - Deadline: April 2
Award: Several non-renewable fellowships of $5,000 for the academic year with a tuition award for up to 9 credits
Criteria: Submission of curriculum vita, a letter from the department head or the department's director of graduate studies that endorses the student's application and that describes the department's commitment to relieve the student of some portion of the student's responsibilities as a graduate assistant; the letter should be addressed to the Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee; students who have exceeded the 70-credit limit will not be eligible for the tuition award that accompanies this fellowship.
Intended to provide outstanding doctoral students with additional time to draft and revise dissertations; it should be used to relieve students from some part of their teaching or research obligations in order to pursue more actively the actual writing of the dissertation
Click here to see the 2010 fellowship recipients.