Diversity at Carolina
Funding Resources
The University places a high priority on providing funding for our graduate students. Here's a partial list of funding opportunities for underrepresented or disadvantaged students:
Multidisciplinary
- American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) Graduate Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
- Gates Millennium Scholar Program—Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Graduate Funding Information Center—Collections include reference materials, online funding databases, and a collection of files on individual funding agencies.
- National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- North Carolina American Indian Incentive Grant
- North Carolina Minority Presence Grant
- UNC Office of Minority Affairs— includes a compilation of national scholarship resources
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Minority Fellowships in Political Science—American Political Science Association
- AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research—American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC)—Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program
- Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity—National Institute on Aging
- Mental Health Dissertation Research Grant to Increase Diversity—National Institute of Mental Health
- Minority Fellowships in Sociology of Mental Health and Drug Abuse—American Sociological Association
- Fellowship for Minority Doctoral Students in Accounting—American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Fellowship—American Psychological Association (All fellowship awards are subject to future funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
- William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarships for Minority Students in Philanthropy, Volunteerism and Nonprofits—The Aspen Institute
- Minority Planning Fellowships—American Planning Association
- Minority Fellowships in Newspaper Management—Newspaper Association of America
- NASP-ERT Minority Scholarship Program for Graduate Training in School Psychology—National Association of School Psychologists
- Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics—National Collegiate Athletic Association
- PhD Fellowship and MBA Scholarship Programs—National Black MBA Association
- Tribal Business Management Scholarships
Math, Engineering, Science, Business, Education and Computers (MESBEC) Scholarships
Native American Leadership Education (NALE) Scholarships
—Catching the Dream - Accenture American Indian Scholarship—Graduate and Undergraduate—American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC)
- Mas Family Scholarship Award for Cuban-Americans—Canosa Freedom Foundation, Jorge Mas
Math, Sciences, and Engineering
- Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship—Xerox Foundation
- Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences (with continued special emphasis toward the recruitment of minority and female science and engineering students)—National Physical Science Consortium
- UNCF/Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships—United Negro College Fund /Merck Science Initiative
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research—National Institutes of Health
- Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Predoctoral Fellowships—National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- AT&T Labs Fellowships for Women and Minorities—AT&T Labs
- Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) Internships for Minority Students in Atmospheric Research—University Corporation for Atmospheric Research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
- ASM Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate Research Fellowships—American Society for Microbiology (applicants must be a student member of ASM)
- Nancy Foster Scholarship in Oceanography, Marine Biology and Maritime Archaeology— National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- General Need-Based Scholarship Program for Minority Medical Students—National Medical Fellowships
- Minority Clinical Fellowship—Infectious Diseases Society of America HIV Medicine Association
- Focus Professions Group Fellowships—American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- UNCF Scholarships
For more information contact Roy Charles, Director of Diversity, Recruitment, and Retention for the Graduate School.