Externally Funded Fellowships



If you are a newly admitted graduate student, and you have received a competitive fellowship, scholarship, grant or similar award from an agency external to UT Arlington, and that award pays a significant part of your tuition, fees and living expenses during your graduate studies in the US, we encourage you to apply for the Graduate Dean Funded Scholar’s Fellowship (PDF, 65KB).

Please note, fellowship awards may impact student loans. If you have or plan to obtain a student loan, check with the Financial Aid Office before accepting any type of fellowship.

Accenture American Indian Scholarship Fund

Accenture is pleased to announce that, through a partnership agreement with the American Indian Graduate Center, it is accepting applications for the Accenture American Indian Scholarship Fund. The Accenture scholarships meet a vital need for American Indian and Alaska Natives seeking higher education and having financial need.

ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art

The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art provides year-long fellowships to doctoral candidates doing dissertations in the art history of the United States. Limited to students in departments of art history.

AFCEA Graduate Scholarships

The AFCEA Educational Foundation sponsors four categories of scholarship assistance, available for graduate students currently enrolled full-time at accredited universities in the United States.

American Association of University Women – International Fellowships

International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research to women who are not US citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate study at accredited institutions is supported.

American Association of University Women – Selected Professions Fellowships

Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women’s participation has traditionally been low. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.

APA Minority Fellowship Program

The APA MFP’s objective is to increase the knowledge of issues related to ethnic minority mental health and to improve the quality of mental health treatment delivered to ethnic minority populations by providing financial support and professional guidance to individuals pursuing doctoral degrees in psychology and neuroscience.

Charlotte W Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The Charlotte W Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supports the final year of dissertation writing for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose research addresses ethical or religious values.

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

This fellowship is for undergraduate seniors or second year graduate students planning full-time study toward a PhD in the physical, engineering, computer, mathematical, or life sciences. Students involved in yearly conferences and have the opportunity to complete a practicum at a national DOE laboratory. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent resident aliens.

Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) program to support outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the US. The fellowship award provides partial tuition support, an annual stipend for living expenses, and a research stipend for full-time graduate study and thesis/dissertation research at a US academic institution for three years.

Department of Homeland Security – Graduate Fellowships

The Department of Homeland Security offers scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate study. The areas of study for these programs include: physical, biological, social, and behavioral sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. The stipend level for graduate students is $2300/month for 12 months and includes tuition allowances.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. The Ford Foundation offers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships.

GAANN Fellowship Program

In 2009, the Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics in partnership with the Office of Graduate Studies, received $1.4 million in federal grants from the US Department of Education through the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Program. This program supports exceptional doctoral students who demonstrate financial need in fields deemed critical to the US.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Awards are made to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year. Applicants may be citizens of any country, studying at colleges or universities in any country.

Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in Geriatric Social Work

The Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program is funded by the John A Hartford Foundation and administered by The Gerontological Society of America (GSA). It is a component of the nationwide Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI) that seeks to expand the training of social workers that can improve the health and well being of older persons and their families.

HBCU Future Engineering Faculty Fellowship Program

The ONR / HBCU Future Engineering Faculty Fellowship Program’s goal is to enhance the number of engineering students successfully pursuing a PhD degree who have an expressed commitment to, upon graduation, teach at an Historically Black College or University. The fellowships are open to students who are US citizens of any ethnicity or gender.

HSF College Scholarship Program (National)

The HSF College Scholarship Program is available on a competitive basis to community college, four-year college, and graduate students of Hispanic heritage. Award amounts generally range from $1,000 to $3,000.

Horizons Foundation Scholarship Program

Women In Defense, A National Security Organization, established the Horizons Foundation to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security and defense interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security and defense fields. The scholarship program is intended to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women who are US citizens, either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas.

HSF / McNamara Family Creative Arts Project Grant

In partnership with the McNamara Family Foundation, this program provides financial resources to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled full-time in a creative arts related field —media, film, performing arts, communications, writing, and others— to assist them in beginning and completing an art project. Students may be potentially eligible for grants up to $20,000.

IBM PhD Fellowship Program

The IBM PhD Fellowship Program is intended to honor exceptional PhD students in disciplines of mutual interest, fundamental to innovation and on-demand business, including: business, chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering and physics, as well as emerging technical fields such as autonomic computing, nanotechnology, grid computing, e-business, on-demand and services management, operations, research, and services science. The IBM PhD Fellowship Program also supports a long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities, and all who contribute to that diversity.

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship

The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research outside of the United States.

Jeanette Elmer Scholarship

This fund is designated to provide scholarships to students who have completed their bachelor’s degree and are enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at an accredited institution and who are members of Wisconsin, New Mexico or Arizona tribes.

John L Carey Scholarships

This scholarship program provides financial assistance to liberal arts degree holders pursuing graduate studies in accounting. These awards are intended to encourage liberal arts undergraduates to consider professional accounting careers.

Korean-American Students Foundation Scholarships

Annual awards to provide partial financial support for Korean-American students at US institutions of higher education, in both graduate and undergraduate degree programs. Awards are based on an evaluation of applicant financial need, merit, and academic achievement.

Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

The Lewis and Clark Fund (initially supported by a benefaction from the late Stanford Ascherman, MD, of San Francisco) encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, astrobiology and space science, biology, ecology, geography, geology, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.

Link Foundation Energy Fellowship

In an effort to foster education and innovation in the area of societal production and utilization of energy, the Link Foundation invites applications for 2-year fellowships of $25,000/year for students working toward a PhD degree.

NASA / Harriett G Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program

The mission of the Harriett G Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) is to increase the numbers of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in the math, science, engineering, and technology (STEM) disciplines. Up to 20 fellows will be selected annually. Fellowships are awarded to applicants that have been accepted into an accredited Master’s or Doctoral program.

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships

The Department of Defense will offer these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering. These fellowships will be awarded for study and research leading to doctoral degrees in mathematical, physical, biological and engineering sciences. These fellowships are intended for students at or near the beginning of their graduate study in science or engineering.

National Physical Science Consortium

This program provides fellowships for qualified students, especially minorities and women, to pursue the doctorate in STEM fields and then enter business or industry. The goal of the program is to increase the mathematics, computer science, and physics, talent pool.

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based PhD degrees in science education.

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports thirty individuals a year for up to two years of graduate study in any subject anywhere in the United States. Candidates must be holders of Green Cards, naturalized citizens or children of two naturalized citizen parents.

Scholarships for Minority Accounting Students

This scholarship program provides awards of up to $5,000 to outstanding minority students to encourage their selection of accounting as a major and their ultimate entry into the profession. These awards are funded by the AICPA Foundation from monies contributed by the AICPA, its members, public accounting firms, and others.

Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships

Through its Dissertation Fellowships, the Spencer Foundation seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a variety of fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. Applicants must be candidates for the doctoral degree in any field of study at a graduate school in the United States, although they need not be US citizens. Dissertation topics must concern education.

VEF Graduate Fellowship Program – Recommended Scholars

The Vietnam Education Foundation is a special initiative by the government and the people of the United States to promote closer relations between the US and Vietnam. We do so by providing opportunities for Vietnamese nationals to pursue graduate and post-graduate studies in science and technology in the US.

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies

The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship sponsors candidates doing original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional or cultural boundaries. Students in doctoral programs in any field of study at graduate schools in the United States are eligible to apply. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal, and expect to complete their dissertations by the end of the fellowship year.