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Accepting Offers of Financial Assistance: ASU is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), which sets an April 15th deadline for acceptance of financial support (such as graduate scholarships, fellowships or assistantships).
Department Fellowships and Awards
Merit-Based
- ARCS
- DeMund
- GCSP
- McNair
- Millennium
- Peace Corps
- PEO
- Reigangi
- Sweitzer
- Tripke
- UGS
Need-Based (Including information on how to apply)
- William D. Ford Direct Loan
- Perkins Loan
- Kids Care
- Summer Workstudy Assistantships
- Workstudy Assistantships
- Graduate Academic Scholarships
- Graduate Tuition Scholarships
- Graduate College Travel Grants
- ASASU Research Grants
- ASASU Conference Travel Funds
- Ford Predoctoral & Dissertation Grants
- Gates Millenium Scholars (GMS)
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- U.S. Student Fulbright Grants
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Dissertation/Thesis Research Support
(see also Internal and External Fellowships and Awards)
Graduate students should search independently for scholarships. Financial aid sources for research and financial assistance can be found at: www.asu.edu/fastt
- Academic Research Information System (ARIS) provides up-to-date information on federal and private sources of grants, fellowships, scholarship, contracts, and awards to colleges, universities, research centers, and individuals. ARIS also publishes reports covering the arts, humanities, and sciences.
- The Illinois Researcher Information Services (IRIS), a unit of the University of Illinois, compiles databases of funding opportunities and maintains a library of publications from over 7,000 funding agencies. These databases contain records on federal and nonfederal funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. ASU is a subscriber and anyone can sign on to the server, as long as they do so with an asu.edu email address.
- ASU McNair Graduate Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
- Graduate College Support Program (GCSP)
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships and Minority Graduate Fellowships
- Project 1000
- Social Academic Mentoring (SAM) Program
- Support for Latino, African American, American Indian Student Organizations
