CSE graduate students at UCSD regularly win competitive external fellowships. In consultation with their advisors, all students are strongly encouraged to apply for one or more of the fellowships listed below. Additional fellowships are also tracked by the UCSD Career Services Center.
| Application Deadline |
Fellowship |
| OPEN: October 2011 |
Krell Institute Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship |
| October 6, 2011 |
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship † ‡ |
| October 6, 2011 |
Microsoft Research Graduate Womans Fellowship † |
| October 14, 2011 |
VMWare Graduate Fellowship |
| October 31, 2011 |
Hertz Foundation |
| November 1, 2011 |
IBM Scholars Program † ‡ |
| October 31, 2011 |
ACM Dissertation Award † |
| November 1, 2011 |
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans |
| November 8, 2011 |
Ford Foundation |
| OPEN: August 2011 |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program |
| OPEN: August 26, 2011 |
National Physical Science Consortium |
| November 15, 2011 |
The American Association of University Women |
| November 15, 2011 |
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering Science (GEM) |
| TBA |
Department of Energy Graduate Fellowships in Science, Mathematics & Engineering |
| November 9, 2011 |
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) |
| December 17, 2011 |
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) |
| January 31, 2012 |
AT&T fellowships for women and underrepresented minorities ‡ |
| TBA |
Google PhD Fellowship † |
| TBA |
Intel Scholarships Program † |
| OPEN: September 2011 |
NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program |
| TBA |
Google Anita Borg Scholarship ‡ |
| TBA |
Facebook Fellowship |
| TBA |
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowships † |
| May 1, 2012 |
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) |
† Requires departmental nomination
‡ International students welcome to apply
