Fellowships and scholarships are designed to attract and support graduate students who have exceptional academic records and potential. Such support is intended to enable the student to better concentrate on coursework and/or research. Each year, the Graduate School makes funding available to the deans to support outstanding graduate students; the deans have developed fellowship deployment strategies tailored to the specific discipline and academic needs of the student. Students should contact their academic department concerning nomination deadlines and criteria for these prestigious awards.
Graduate tuition scholarships are awarded by an academic department/program, a College/School, or a university administrative office to facilitate a student's pursuit of a post-baccalaureate degree program. Master's students are eligible to receive as many as four semesters of tuition scholarship support; doctoral students may receive as many as eight semesters of tuition scholarship support, including any such scholarships received while enrolled in a master's program. These and other institutional policies regarding the award and use of graduate tuition scholarships may be examined in the Provost's Guidelines for Graduate Tuition Scholarships. All graduate tuition scholarship recipients are subject to those policies.
Please contact the academic or administrative unit providing your tuition scholarship for more information and assistance in filing the required forms associated with this type of graduate student support.
The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program offers support for historically underrepresented students in graduate programs across the university. Students in the program have outstanding academic credentials which contribute to an impressive graduation and retention rate of close to eighty percent. Schomburg fellows participate in conferences and seminars and present papers in their respective disciplines. Since its inception in 1987, over 500 academically talented students have received support through this fellowship program.
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) offers 25 Dean's Scholarships to outstanding graduate students pursuing a program within the College. The scholarship carries a stipend of $4000, and will be renewable for up to three additional years.
Please visit the CAS Dean's Scholarship website or contact your department for more information about the program.
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 Graduate Educational Opportunity Program (GEOP) provides tuition scholarships to graduates of Educational Opportunity Program (EOP); Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP); and CUNY Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) programs within New York State who wish to pursue further education at the graduate level.
This fellowship program is named in honor of the late Gilbert D. Moore, who served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education prior to his appointment as dean of the Graduate School. The Graduate School, in conjunction with the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dental Medicine, and the Law School, established this fellowship program to attract superior students into concurrent programs of professional and doctoral research, including the concurrent M.D./Ph.D., D.D.S./Ph.D., and J.D./Ph.D. programs.
Please contact your department for more information about the program.
SUNY AGEP's mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing doctoral degrees and academic careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The UB Presidential Fellowship Program is aimed at enhancing UB's competitiveness in recruiting outstanding graduate students. To be eligible, a nominee must be a new applicant to a Ph.D. program with at least one of the following:
Please contact your department for more information about the program.
Please visit Sponsored Projects Services for more information about these opportunities.
Many degree programs also have their own scholarship funds to award to graduate and professional students at their discretion. These awards vary in amount and eligibility. Students should communicate with their academic department of interest concerning scholarship opportunities.