Fellowships

Fellowships, like scholarships, are selective awards granted to graduate students for academic excellence. They are used to fund graduate study, scholarly work, or to provide professional development to an aspiring graduate student. Internal fellowships are offered through UMBC, while external fellowships may be obtained outside the university.

Internal Fellowships

UMBC Dissertation Fellowship

UMBC offers a limited number of Dissertation Fellowships to students who have reached doctoral candidacy. This fellowship is designed to provide doctoral candidates at UMBC an opportunity to devote the necessary concentration and attention towards finishing the writing of their dissertations.

[Dissertation Fellowship Application]

Meyerhoff Fellows Program

Funded by an NIH-MBRS Initiative to Maximize Student Development (IMSD) grant, the Meyerhoff Fellows Program focuses on promoting cultural diversity in the biomedical sciences at the graduate level.

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External Fellowships

There are many sources on the Web to find graduate fellowships and other funding. Some of the popular sources include:

• Finaid
• Council of Graduate Schools
• BigFuture Scholarship Search at The College Board
• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine
• GEM Consortium Fellowships
• American Psychological Foundation
• Pathways to Science

Major National Fellowships and Scholarships

• DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• National Physical Science Consortium
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
• The Hertz Foundation
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Graduate Scholarships
• American Association of University Women
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
• NASA Graduate Fellowship
• Social Science Research Council

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