External Funding for Graduate Students

External Funding for Graduate Students

Students can pursue additional funding for their graduate study beyond the current commitments they have as fellowships, scholarships, and work appointments (etc.) that provide tuition and benefit support during graduate study. Students are encouraged to to pursue both prestigious and supportive external funding sources to add to their current supports.

AERA Funding Opportunities

Texas Grants Resource Center

University of Texas Libraries

LibGuides: Find Funding Opportunities: Especially for Graduate Students

Foundations such as the Spencer Foundation

What Do We Fund?

Graduate School's Extramural Funding webpage

Externally Funded Fellowships

Highlights include:

  1. American Association of University Women - Austin Branch
    Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates at The University of Texas at Austin

  2. Hertz Fellowship
     Hertz Fellowship

  3. Knowles Foundation Teaching and Research Fellowship

    Home - Improve Math & Science Education | Knowles

  4. Social Science Research Council

    Fellowship and Grants Administration

  5. Hispanic Scholarship Fund

     Scholarship Main

  6. Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

    Home – Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

  7. Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

    NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship