Funding for Current Students
The Graduate School offers funding awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships in order to support our most promising graduate students.
View a summary of Graduate School awards, fellowships, and grants.
Submit Graduate School Fellowship/Award Application
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If you are applying to any of these awards, see Funding Deadlines.
View Frequently Asked Questions about the online award application.
If you have been offered a funding award, learn about how stipends are paid out and view tax resources.
Masters Students
The Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship (GTIS) helps to cover the cost of tuition if you are receiving external funding for your thesis or dissertation that does not include tuition.
The Impact Award recognizes graduate students whose research has a special impact on the citizens of North Carolina.
The Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Servicerecognizes a graduate student with outstanding character, scholarship, leadership, and service to the University. Nomination only.
The Graduate Student Opportunity Fund (GSOF) assists students with unusual and unexpected academic expenses.
Doctoral Students
Fellowships
Dissertation Completion Fellowships (including the Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowships) support doctoral students engaged in research and writing toward the completion of their dissertations.
The Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship supports doctoral students conducting dissertation research away from the Chapel Hill campus.
The Summer Research Fellowship provides summer support to doctoral students.
The Sequoyah Fellowship is open to both American Indian doctoral students doing research on any topic and all doctoral students doing research on American Indian topics.
One-Time Awards
The Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to doctoral students and recent graduates.
The Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship (GTIS) helps to cover the cost of tuition if you are receiving external funding that does not include tuition. You may be eligible if you are a masters or doctoral student with external funding for your thesis or dissertation.
The Graduate Student Transportation Grant assists graduate students with some of the transportation costs necessary for travel to a regional, national, or international academic conference or professional society meeting to present their dissertation research.
The Graduate Student Opportunity Fund (GSOF) assists students with unusual and unexpected academic expenses.
The Impact Award recognizes graduate students whose research has a special impact on the citizens of North Carolina.
The Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service recognizes a graduate student with outstanding character, scholarship, leadership, and service to the University. Nomination only.
Contact Us
Graduate School Fellowships Office
gradfunding@unc.edu