External Fellowships
The following table details external fellowships that may be available to students. More details and information can be found by clicking the links for each fellowship.
Use the search field to filter table content.| Fellowship | Residency/Other key eligibility requirements |
|---|---|
| AAUW Fellowships and Grants | Women only. International students may apply. |
| ACM SIGHPC/INTEL Computational and Data Science Fellowships | Students studying data science or computing applications who are either women or members of an underrepresented group. |
| Ada Lovelace Fellowship | 2nd Year PhD student, members of underrepresented groups in computing, International Students Eligible. Requires department chair nomination. |
| Amazon Alexa Graduate Fellowship | Debt invite required. International students may apply. |
| Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship | Students working in broadly-construed data science, including natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with an anticipated graduation date in or before 2023 |
| CRA-E Graduate Fellows Program | Requires faculty nomination. |
| DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program | U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency |
| DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship | U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency |
| Facebook Fellowship Program | International students may apply. |
| Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs | U.S. Citizenship |
| Google Women Techmakers | Female Students, Students from U.S. embargoed countries are not eligible. |
| Google PhD Fellowship Program | 3 year PhD or later. International students may apply. |
| Hertz Foundation Fellowships | International students may apply. |
| IBM PhD Fellowships | Students Approximately 2 years from degree completion, Students from U.S. embargoed countries are not eligible. |
| INL Graduate Fellowships | May depend on area of interest. |
| Microsoft PhD Fellowship | International students may apply. |
| Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Research Grant | Requirements vary. |
| NASA ISGC Fellowship | U.S. Citizenship |
| NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship | Requirements vary. |
| National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) | U.S. Citizenship, U.S. nationals, or U.S. dual citizen |
| National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Fellowship | US Citizenship, eligible for security clearance. |
| Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding" | Applicants must coordinate with a faculty member who is a PI on an NSF grant awarded by one of the eligible directorates. |
| NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | U.S. Citizenship, US national or Permanent Residency. Enrolled in US grad institution by the fall of the following year so Undergrad seniors. No more than 12 months of graduate study by Aug 1. |
| NVIDIA Graduate Fellowships | International students may apply. |
| QIF 2021 North America QualComm Fellowships | International students may apply. |
| Siebel Scholars | International students may apply. |
| Snap Inc. Research Fellowships and Scholarship | International students may apply. |
| The Open Phil Al Fellowship | International students may apply. |
Additional fellowships can be found using  The University of Illinois fellowship finder tool.