Scholarship and Fellowship

Scholarship and Fellowship

Internal Awards

Graduate students at IU find support through internal fellowships and awards, which is money that comes directly from IU.

Decisions regarding most awards are made by individual graduate programs and can involve a stipend plus tuition and health insurance. The amount and length of these awards varies according to the award and the graduate program.

You will need to apply to be considered for the awards. Submit your application directly to the department. Similarly, you may need to be nominated by a faculty member or department for consideration. Make sure you’re in communication with your department about all fellowship opportunities.

Recruitment

• Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF)
  • The Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF) is designed to enable promising students who are first generation college graduates and who do not fare well in conventional competition for graduate fellowships. Students who have attended marginally adequate or inadequate schools; who have been required to work excessively while attending school; or whose social and economic background made acquiring education an unreasonably difficult enterprise are encouraged to apply.
• Graduate Scholars Fellowship
  • The Graduate Scholars Fellowship is a multi-year award designed to guarantee that the student receives full stipend, tuition, and health insurance throughout the time they are working towards the Ph.D. or M.F.A. degree. At least one year is a pure graduate fellowship with no duties beyond continued progress towards the degree. During that year, the stipend level is $19,000-$25,000 depending on the discipline. The fellowship year stipend and subsidized health insurance are provided by the Graduate School Bloomington. Tuition is funded by the department, College or School. For the remaining 2-4 years, funding is the responsibility of the Department, and is derived from a combination of awards, scholarships, research and/or teaching assistantships.
• Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowship
  • The McNair Graduate Fellowship is designed to encourage more underrepresented students to complete a Ph.D. degree. The fellowship is offered to outstanding first-generation, low- income, or minority college graduates with the goal of increasing the pool of underrepresented students pursuing careers in post-secondary education and establishing role models for future minority students
• President's Diversity Initiative Recruitment Fellowship
  • The President’s Diversity Initiative Recruitment Fellowship program was established in 2014 to attract outstanding underrepresented students to pursue a Ph.D. degree at Indiana University. The program offers a multi-year funding package, professional development, and mentoring support to outstanding scholars in all fields. In joining the IU academic community these scholars, through their research, teaching and service, will enhance scholarship through the numerous benefits that diversity confers

Leadership and Service

• John H. Edwards Fellowship
  • Good citizenship, character, especially attitude toward public service and the likelihood of future usefulness to society, scholastic ability, intellectual capacity, and upon such other bases and qualifications, and in such manner, as the Trustees of Indiana University in their discretion and judgment may determine from time to time, but always without regard to consideration of religion, creed, race, national origin, color, sex, or political affiliation
• Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship
  • The scholarship offers financial support to a current international graduate student who has demonstrated commitment to service and education and plans to pursue a service-oriented career and demonstrates financial need. The recipient will possess a track record of service to underserved or rural communities, humanitarian causes, or educational organizations in activities that support an improvement in the lives and opportunities to those in impoverished communities. Preference will be given to graduate students from South Asia, those hailing from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan.

Research

• Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research
  • These awards provide funding for Bloomington graduate students for unusual expenses incurred in connection with doctoral dissertation research, such as travel to special libraries or laboratories, payments to consultants, specialized equipment, and duplication of vital materials needed for writing the dissertation. Expenses that are not supported include typing and duplicating of dissertations, normal living expenses, routine laboratory supplies, and computers.
• President's Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
  • The President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship was established in 2014 to provide one year of support to advanced doctoral students who are completing Ph.D. dissertations. These are one-time fellowships meant to offset a scholar’s living expenses while completing the dissertation. This competition is specifically aimed at graduate students who are underrepresented minorities (URMs) in their field. The URM designation applies to racial, ethnic, gender and disability classification. Graduate students in the natural, physical and life sciences, technology, and math fields, are especially encouraged to apply. To apply for this award, applicants must have been admitted to candidacy and receive Ph.D. recorder approval at least one month prior to the application deadline.

Career Development

• Future Faculty Teaching Fellowships (FFTF)
  • Provides the opportunity to teach for an entire academic year at Butler University or one of the Indiana University branch campuses
• Travel Award to Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
  • The goal of the Travel Award to Institute on Teaching and Mentoring is to prepare more minority Ph.D. students who seek careers as college faculty. The Travel Award provides multiple layers of support including career counseling, job postings, counseling and advocacy, a scholar directory for networking and recruiting, invitation to attend the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring and early career support for pre-candidacy doctoral students. Ph.D. students who: apply to, are selected for, and accept the Doctoral Scholars Program (DSP) Award will receive an invitation to attend the institute up to three years, whereas Ph.D. students who: apply to, are selected for, and accept the Dissertation Year Award will be invited to attend the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring for one year.

Merit and Achievement

• Esther Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award
  • The Esther L. Kinsley Award was established through a bequest to the Indiana University Foundation by Esther L. Kinsley, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University. She taught civics, history, and economics at Shelbyville High School for 40 years. According to plans developed by faculty committees and approved by the Graduate Council, each degree granting program of The Graduate School Bloomington may nominate one "truly outstanding" Ph.D. dissertation for consideration by the Awards and Financial Aid Committee of the Graduate Council. The committee will consider such criteria as originality, documentation, significance, accuracy, organization, and style.

Discipline-Specific

• Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship
  • The Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship was created to honor President Myles Brand’s parents, Irving and Shirley Brand. The fellowship is an annual fellowship for IUB incoming or current graduate students in the Humanities, with preference given to students of Philosophy.

External Awards

External fellowships and awards are also available, which can come from organizations and corporations unaffiliated with the university.

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson NationalFellowship Foundation)
• Council on Graduate Schools
• Critical Language Scholarship Program
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship
  • Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship-Conditions
  • Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship-Application
• Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship
• Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral,Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Fulbright Program
• Gates Cambridge Scholarships
• George J. Mitchell Scholarship
• Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program(JPFP)
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation—Dissertation Fellowships
• Hertz Foundation
• International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program
• James Madison Graduate Fellowships
• John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships
• Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust—Graduate Fellowships
• New York State Assembly Internships
• Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities
• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
• Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship Program
• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
• Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
• Rhodes Scholarship
• Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement (McNair) Program
• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Pre-Doctoral Fellowships
• Teach for America
• Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship
• Winston Churchill Foundation
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies
• Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship
• **NDEA Fellowships (FLAS)
  • (National Defense Education Act Title VI-Fellowships; also known as Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships): these fellowships are available for the study of many modern foreign languages. The Office of Education awards these fellowships to students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign cultures is a prerequisite for success. The award includes a stipend and tuition and is given in one of six area studies Departments. General information is available from the Dean of International Studies or from any area studies office.

Additional information including detailed description, requirements, eligibility, and award values for the different awards listed above can be found on the University Graduate Page.

Website: https://graduate.indiana.edu/funding-professional-dev/funding/fellowships/index.html

Student Employment

In addition to holding appointments as associate instructors, students at the Bloomington campus have many opportunities for part-time employment. Students interested in employment options should consult the lists maintained by the Student Employment Office at the Career Development Center, 625 N. Eagleson Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (812-855-5234) or access this information through the IUB website https://career.indiana.edu/

Grad Grants Center

The Grad Grants Center provides graduate students or those newly admitted for graduate study with one central location to find available academic vacancies on the Bloomington campus.

Questions concerning the vacancies listed should be directed to the advertising department.