Graduate Fellowships, Grants and Awards

Information about Berkeley and extramural fellowships, grants and awards including deadlines and applications, can be found in the table below.

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There are many fellowship options national wide to help cover the costs. We have compiled a list of national fellowship databases to aid in your search.

The Graduate Division provides fellowship awards for entering doctoral students to programs to aid in the recruitment of outstanding doctoral and masters students, including those who will enhance the diversity of the graduate student population at Berkeley. These fellowships are awarded at the departmental level as part of the admissions process.

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Name Degree Type Amount Deadline

Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency

Doctoral, Masters $10,000 February 20

Bay Area Water Quality Fellowship

Doctoral, Masters $16,000 April 2

Department of Defense – National Defense and Science Engineering Fellowships

Doctoral, Masters $43,200 November 15

Doctoral Fellowship – Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory – School of Law

Doctoral $6,000 February 1

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program

Doctoral Varies May 6

Edward E. Hildebrand Research Fellowship

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships

Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards

February 10

Global International and Area Studies Grants

Global International and Area Studies Unit Grants

Graduate Division Caregiver Grant

Graduate Fellowship in STEM Diversity (Formerly National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship)

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Graduate Fellows Program

Institute of East Asian Studies Fellowships

Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship

Office for Graduate Diversity — Diversity & Community Fellows Program

Partner University Grants for Study in Western Europe

Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowships for Academic Distinction

Taiwan-UC Berkeley Fellowship

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

The Future of Higher Education Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Doctoral April 25

Townsend Dissertation Fellowships

UC-HBCU Fellowship

UC-National Laboratory In-Residence Graduate Fellowship

Undocumented Student Program – Transcending Beyond Berkeley Fellowship

Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship