Scholarships
Scholarships & Travel Awards
These sites represent ongoing opportunities for academic scholarships and travel awards. Traditional
deadlines are listed but check each site individually to verify.
- College Board - Scholarship search site which maintains a
database of over 2,300 funding sources that distributed more than $3 billion in awards last year.
- Fast WEB - Search program with more
than 180,000 available scholarships in its database.
- Goldwater Scholarship
- Annual competition for future scientists, mathematicians and engineers. The award of $7,500 a
year is intended to assist college seniors or graduate students cover eligible expenses for
tuition, fees, books, and room and board. Nominations are required from the college and for UVM
applicants, the process is administered by the Honors College. The deadline traditionally is mid December for
the following academic year.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund - HSF has
awarded more than 75,000 scholarships totalling over $170 million in its 30-year history of
supporting higher education goals for Hispanic college students. Varying programs and deadlines.
- Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship - The IGERT program seeks undergraduate students interested in
building the technical, professional and personal skills needed to address the global
questions of the future. The mission of the IGERT National Recruitment Program is to increase
the participation of underrepresented groups, including women and minorities, in doctoral
programs in the engineering, science and mathematics fields. Funded by the National Science
Foundation, IGERT programs provide participants with the edge needed to become leaders in their
chosen fields. There are multiple opportunities with different deadlines. To learn more about
IGERT PhD programs located at universities across the country, click
here.
- MALDEF (The
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) - Approximately 100 individual scholarship
opportunities with varying requirements and deadlines. Many are general or based upon financial
need; others are specific to gender, career goals, region of the country or field of study.
- McNair Scholars Only! - A site tailor-made for McNair scholars!
Lists universities offering incentives for applying McNair Scholars, including application fee
waivers, assistantships and fellowships.
- National Aeronatics and
Space Administration (NASA) - Undergraduate research opportunities throughout the country
for college juniors and seniors who are U.S. citizens, majoring in the sciences, engineering,
computer science or math, and hold a 3.0 minimum GPA. The deadline traditionally is January 31 every year.
- National Science
Foundation Summer REU Program - The NSF funds a number of summer research opportunities for
undergraduates through its Sites program, which consists of a group of ten undergraduates who
work in research programs of host institutions. Each student is associated with a specific
research project and works closely with faculty and other researchers. Students are granted
stipends and, in many cases, assistance with housing and travel. Undergraduates supported with
NSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions.
An REU Site may be at either a US or foreign location. Students search for sites by geographic
location, research subject areas or keywords. Students contact the individual sites for
information and application materials. There are multiple opportunities with varying deadlines.
- Primero Hispanic Heritage
Scholarship - Inspired by the efforts and dedication of the many Hispanic families who have
helped their children become the first to attend college, Sears Holdings Corporation has created
the PRIMERO Hispanic Heritage Scholarship. The scholarship awards up to $10,000 toward college
costs for those who are first in their family.
- Science, Mathematics And Research
for Transformation (SMART) - A Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the
Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number
of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories. Applications are considered for
undergraduate and graduate students who: are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, have a cumulative
grade point average of 3.0 or more, and is enrolled full time in a STEM discipline at an ABET-accredited school. The scholarship covers all tuition and fees. The traditional deadline is early
to mid-December each year.
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Student Scholarship Search
- Database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for
undergraduate and postgraduate students worth a total of more than $35 million. Site includes
scholarships based upon merit, grants based upon need, and student loan forgiveness programs for
those who have graduated from college and need alternatives for repayment.
- Suiter Travel Award - Each year the Ronald Suiter Prize provides up to
$1,000 each to six or more students in the UVM College of Arts and Sciences. Awards are based upon
merit and decisions are made by a faculty committee. Recipients must be full-time matriculated
undergraduate or graduate students in CAS. Funds must be used to attend a meeting, conference,
or symposium to allow the student to present scholarly work or to advance scholarly abilities.
Priority is given to applicants who attend with a UVM faculty mentor in CAS. The application deadlines are
October 30 for Fall and February 1 for Spring. Preference is given to graduate
students in the fall and undergraduates in the spring. If you apply off-cycle, state in your
application why it is necessary to do so.
- Summer Research
Opportunities Program (SROP) - Administered by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
(CIC), an academic consortium of the Big Ten Schools plus the University of Chicago, SROP
features undergraduate research opportunities for college sophomores, juniors and seniors of
all majors who are interested in careers on college campuses as teaching faculty or researchers.
Applicants must be from groups underrepresented in their fields, and must be US citizens or
permanent residents. Deadlines range from January and February of each year for the following
summer.
- Supercollege.com - Each year
scholarships are awarded to outstanding college students. Apply online. The deadline traditionally
is July 31 every year.
- Truman Scholarship provides up to
$30,000 in funding to students pursuing graduate degrees in public service fields. Students must
be college juniors at the time of selection. The Foundation also provides assistance with career
counseling, internship placement, graduate school admissions, and professional development. Students
accepted as Scholars are invited to participate in a number of programs: Truman Scholar Leadership
Week, The Summer Institute, The Truman Fellows Program, and the Public Service Law Conference. Please
visit the website for an overview of the programs the Foundation currently offers. The application
deadline traditionally is early February each year.
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Udall Scholarship awards 80 scholarships of up to $5000 each, plus 50 honorable mentions of
$350 each to sophomore and junior level college students committed to careers related to the
environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care. Nominations are required from
the college and for UVM applicants, the process is administered by the Honors College. The
deadline traditionally is mid February for the following academic year.
- United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
- Access over 7,000 scholarship opportunities.
- List of 50 Minority Scholarships!!
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TRiO / McNair
The McNair Scholars Program is a federal Trio program funded through a grant
from the US Department of Education.
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