Many different fellowships are available through departments, colleges, and the Office of Graduate Studies. Ordinarily, graduate students holding fellowships are not required to perform any services. All fellowships of $1,000 or greater per academic year also allow students to pay tuition at the in-state rate. Fellowships packages vary from $1,000 to over $30,000 and some do include funds for insurance and tuition and fees.
List of Large National Graduate Fellowship Programs
List of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Science Fellowships
Research/Travel Grants
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid Research Program: This grant program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering. Designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences allow for grants of up to $5,000 for astronomy research and $2,500 for vision-related research. Students use the funding to pay for travel expenses to and from a research site, or for purchase of non-standard laboratory equipment necessary to complete a specific research project.
OGS Research and Presentation Grants: This program is to support graduate student research or travel by reimbursing students for certain expenses.
Need Based Grants
Texas Aggie Graduate Grants: These grants are need-based awards (need is determined by Student Financial Aid) for graduate students who are Texas residents. Each student may receive up to $1,500 per semester, with a maximum of $3,000 per year.
Foreign Study
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship: This scholarship program supports highly motivated and qualified U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to do research at a Swiss university for 2 to 3 months.
Predoctoral/Early Career Fellowship
Graduate Merit Fellowships/The Association of Former Students Fellowships: This fellowship is by faculty nomination only. (Students do not apply for this fellowship.) First semester, fall start only fellowship. These fellowships are awarded through a University-wide competition. The fellowships are designed to encourage high-quality applicants to enroll for the first time in graduate programs at Texas A&M University. The departments make nominations to the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and these awards are given for one year.
Graduate Diversity Fellowships: This fellowship is by faculty nomination only. (Students do not apply for this fellowship.) First semester, fall start only fellowship. This fellowship was established to attract students to Texas A&M who have a proven record of success in a diverse environment. Academic departments nominate prospective graduate students, and students are selected based on overall merit and the nominating department's statement of support. The fellowship provides funding for two years for master's students and three years for PhD students, and includes for each year: $13,000 stipend, $5,000 for tuition and fees, and a departmental assistantship, which pays a minimum of $7,000 per year. With the graduate assistantship, the student has an option for heath insurance at a nominal cost.
Harriet G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program: The goal of the program is to increase diversity and employ the best practices for advancing the number of women, minorities and disabled persons who receive graduate degrees in the NASA-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and workforce.
National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships (NPSC) Offers a unique Ph.D.-track graduate fellowship in the physical sciences and related engineering fields. It is open to all U. S. Citizens, but with emphasis on recruitment of applications from historically underrepresented minorities and women. An NPSC Fellowship covers the first two or three years of graduate school, depending on the employer who sponsors the fellowship, with the possibility of continuation for several more years providing all the conditions of the fellowship continue to be met.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships: Individual students apply for these awards directly to NSF. Once awarded, NSF dedicates funds and the money is administered through OGS.
Pathways to the Doctorate Fellowships: (First semester, fall start only fellowship.) Through the Pathways to the Doctorate program, several institutions in the Texas A&M University System are making assistantships or scholarships available to students from within the Texas A&M University System wishing to pursue graduate study at another A&M System institution. To qualify, students must be from a different System institution than the one to which they are applying.
Sustainable Energy Fellowship Program: A collaborative learning experience for upper division undergraduate students and early in career graduate students that explores sustainability, biocomplexity, conventional and renewable energy, demand side management, climate-energy systems, policy, national security, economics and the role of institutions. The program is sponsored by a partnership between representatives from industry, government, NGOs and multiple universities, including Arizona State University, Duke University, the University of Michigan and Cornell University. No more than 40 exceptional students will be accepted this year and expenses are covered by generous donations of the industry partners. The program rotates locations and this year will be at Duke University from May24-31. The application for funding is due by April 18. Students are required to obtain two faculty references, provide GPAs and complete a written statement of purpose.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowship: Eligible students must be studying in a homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) field with an interest in one of the homeland security research areas listed on the DHS website.
Welch Foundation Fellowships: These fellowships are for students working in the general field of chemical research.
Dissertation Fellowships
Sigma Delta Epsilon / Graduate Women In Science Fellowships (SDE/GWIS) (SDE, Eloise Gerry, Vessa Notchev, and Nell I. Mondy Fellowships) The applicant must be enrolled as a graduate student, or engaged in post-doctoral or early-stage junior faculty academic research, and demonstrate financial need for continuation or completion of theirresearch.
For more information on the fellowships above and for additional fellowships: http://ogs.tamu.edu/prospective/financial/expenses-and-financial-aid