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Fellowships and Financial Aid

For information about the awards and funding available through the Graduate School for current students, please visit our Awards page. The Graduate Assistantship Handbook or the guidelines for Tuition Fellowships have information about assistantships and tuition fellowships, which are offered to students with qualifying assistantships. Most funding for graduate students comes from departments, so please check with your department about available funding.

Opportunities through Auburn University

•  Engineering Research Fellowships
• Graduate Assistantships Handbook
• Graduate Research and Teaching Fellowships
• President's Graduate Opportunity Program
• Loans
• Graduate Travel Awards
• Graduate Research Awards
• Merriwether Fellowships (AU Graduate School Award)

Selected External Competitive Funding Sources

• Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Fellowships for Graduate Study
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• SURA Fellowship Program for Nuclear Physics
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for the History, Theory, or Practice of Education
• Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship Program  
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (humanities, social sciences)
• Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs (diversity)
• Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy graduate Fellowship Program (social/behavioral science, medical/health discipline, physical or biological science, any field of engineering, law/business/public administration, or any relevant interdisciplinary fields)
• Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Teaching Fellowships
• Link Foundation Simulation and Training Fellowship
• Math for America Newton Fellowship Program
• Mellon Fellowship Program for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (humanities and social sciences)
• Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards for Women in aerospace-related graduate programs
• Society of Automotive Engineers Doctoral Scholars Forgivable Loans Program forgivable loans for engineers who teach at the university level
• Social Science Research Council Program on Global Security & Cooperation grants and fellowships in global security and cooperation.
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (Sciences and Engineering)