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Scholarships and Fellowships for Graduate Students

CSE graduate students at UCSD regularly win competitive external fellowships. In consultation with their advisors, all students are strongly encouraged to apply for one or more of the fellowships listed below. Additional fellowships are also tracked by the UCSD Career Services Center.

Application Deadline Fellowship
OPEN: October 2012 Krell Institute Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
October 9, 2012 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship † ‡
October 16, 2012 Microsoft Research Graduate Womans Fellowship †
TBA VMWare Graduate Fellowship
November 2, 2012 Hertz Foundation
TBA IBM Scholars Program † ‡
October 31, 2012 ACM Dissertation Award
November 12, 2012 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
November 19, 2012
November 24, 2012
Ford Foundation
November 13, 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
OPEN: August 25, 2012 National Physical Science Consortium
November 15, 2012 The American Association of University Women
November 15, 2012 National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering Science (GEM)
TBA Department of Energy Graduate Fellowships in Science, Mathematics & Engineering
November 8, 2012 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)
December 14, 2012 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG)
January 15, 2012 AT&T fellowships for women and underrepresented minorities
February 1, 2012 Google PhD Fellowship
TBA Intel Scholarships Program
OPEN: TBA NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program
TBA Google Anita Borg Scholarship
January 7, 2012 Facebook Fellowship
January 20, 2012 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowships
TBA Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

† Requires departmental nomination

‡ International students welcome to apply