Several funding opportunities are available to graduate students in the form of grants, scholarships, and fellowships. Although this page is certainly not a complete list of sources, it's a good place to start. If you know of a funding opportunity that isn't listed here, please e-mail us so we can post it for our graduate students.

NDSU Funding

Presidential Doctoral Graduate Fellowships

NDSU Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Graduate School Research Awards

Graduate School Teaching Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship (DDA) Program

Graduate Student Research Assistantships

GraSUS Fellowships
GraSUS-II is a GK-12 project funded by the National Science Foundation. GK-12 (Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education) programs provide support and funding to graduate students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines. NSF GK-12 programs provide opportunities for graduate students to gain expertise communicating science and research to a broad range of audiences.

Non-faculty Travel Awards

Cultural Diversity Tuition Waivers

Board of Higher Education Scholarship

College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources

Pamela O'Connor Memorial Scholarship (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

Jeff and Pat Reynolds Award(Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

Funding Opportunities for Women

American Association of University Women-Dissertation Fellowships

Eloise Gerry Fellowships

L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science 2010

Honor Societies

Golden Key International Honour Society

Mortar Board

Phi Eta Sigma

Phi Kappa Phi

Government Agencies

National Endowment for the Arts

National Institutes of Health

Federal Grant Opportunities

National Endowment for the Humanities

Department of Health and Human Services

National Science Foundation

Department of Defense

SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program:
A civilian research scholarship-for-service program offered by the Department of Defense that provides full tuition (no cap), annual cash award between $25,000 and $41,000, book allowance, health insurance, internships for multi-year participants and post-graduation employment.

Additional Funding Opportunities

Dakota Memories Doctoral Fellowship

Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship and Internship Programs in Research & Development

Facebook Fellowship Program accepting applications for 2010-11.

National Research Council of the Academies Research Associateship Program.

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program