LibGuides: Find Funding Opportunities: Graduate Students

Information for Graduate Students

If you are a graduate students frustrated by seeing funding opportunities clearly aimed at a different category of recipient, please remember:

"Filtering" in Pivot can be used to help focus your search.
- For example, under Applicant Type, select Individuals: Graduate Student
Professional associations often offer scholarships, travel funds, and other opportunities for students. These opportunities are usually advertised but you can also seek them out by contacting staff members at the association and by searching a group's webpages.
Foundations. A foundation with matching interests may support your work; remember that foundation funding is usually not advertised.

PIVOT

Used for finding grants, fellowships, prizes and other types of funding for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Funders are from the public and private sector; local, state and national governments; foundations and societies, and corporations.

GRAPES
From the University of California at Los Angeles, GRAPES is especially aimed at graduate students and post-docs as a place to search for scholarships, grants, and fellowships.

Graduate Funding
Variety of resources to help you get the financing you need – from internal scholarships to graduate student travel funds – so you can focus on your studies instead of your finances.