Fellowships

Advanced Opportunity Fellowships

Advanced Opportunity Fellowships (AOF) are granted to the UW-Madison’s Graduate School by the State of Wisconsin and are combined with other graduate education funds to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified underrepresented students in UW-Madison graduate programs.  Fellowships are competitive and merit based.  AOF funding is intended to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of the graduate student population, as well as to support economically disadvantaged and first generation college students.  AOF fellowships are paid through the Graduate School by the College of Letters & Science’s Community of Graduate Research Scholars (C-GRS) program.

External Fellowships

Fellowships from professional societies and outside agencies provide another important source of aid for which students may apply either before or after commencing graduate work at UW. If necessary, external fellowships can often be supplemented with University funds up to prevailing University fellowship rates.

All qualified students who are US citizens, nationals or permanent resident aliens of the US are urged to apply to the National Science Foundation for the pre-doctoral fellowship competition.  Students apply directly to NSF; the closing date is usually in early November. Please check the NSF website: http://www.nsf.gov for the application instructions and deadline.