Graduate School Scholarships
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Career-Specific Scholarships
College-Based Awards
Fulbright Program
North American Interfraternal Foundation
Professional Organizations
Research Fellowships
Career-Specific Scholarships
 Financial aid offers to graduate students who
are studying in a specific career field.
o The American Copy Editors Society
(ACES) Scholarship offers a $2,500
grant for students who study
journalism for graduate school.
o The Applegate Jackson Park Future
Teacher Scholarship awards $1,000 to
graduate student who are getting a
graduate degree in
education/teaching.
o To know if your career choice offers
any scholarship, ask you graduate
department advisor.
College-Based Awards
 Financial aid offers from the college for
graduate students who accept to go there.
o Champlain College offers graduate
students to win $1,000 scholarship for
their first 3-credit course taken with a
program
o San Francisco State University Alumni
Scholarship Association offers
graduate students $1,000 who
cumulative GPA is at least a 3.25
GPA and who are enrolled full-time.
o Each college across the states has their
own College-Based awards.
o Call your graduate school Financial
Aid to know which and what collegebased awards are available for you.
Fulbright Program
 Sponsored by the United States Department of
State, Bureau of and Cultural Affairs, it offers
multiple grants which each grant vary on the
financial help for graduate students, teachers,
researchers, and professionals.
o The Fulbright also offers grant to
people of color to increase the
diversity in graduate schools.
o More information click on their
website and how to apply, go to this
website http://www.iie.org/fulbright
North American Interfraternal Foundation
 NIF is a non-profit organization, which
sponsor scholarships and fellowships for
graduate and undergraduate students who
were, or are in a social or professional Greek
life in college. Many of the NIF fund are from
donations so the amount of scholarship vary.
o Two NIF scholarships include
James H. McLaughlin
Scholarship and Mary Louise
Roller PanHellenic
Scholarship,
o Two Fellowships include the
Jack Anson Fellowship and the
Lloyd G. Balfour Fellowships.
o If you are in some sort of
Greek life, this is a good
opportunity to utilize your
Greek life resources.
Professional Organization
 Scholarships sponsor by different
organizations to students who want to pursue
graduate school
o The American Bar Association offers
Legal Opportunity Scholarship grants
for 20 diverse students who want to
pursue a law degree. The grant is
$15,000 and is cover through 3 years
of law school.
o The American Institute of Graphic Arts
offers the Word studio AIGA
Scholarship Program to minority and
economically disadvantage students
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who want to go to graduate school for
adverting, fine arts, graphic design,
illustration, interactive design/motion
graphics and photography.
Click this link for more example of
different organization you can join for
grants and scholarships
http://www.scholarships.com/financial
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If the organization you are a part of do
not offer scholarships or grants, you
can ask your fellow members or the
head organizer(s) if they know any
other similar organization that offer
grants.
Research Fellowships
 Research fellowships are offer from a wide
range of organization, college and
cooperation.
o The research fellowship is mostly for
students who have received their
doctoral degree or have completed a
field studies that is equivalent to a
doctoral degree.
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Some research fellowship includes the
Folgers Shakespeare Library and
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The research fellowship differs
depending on the country, States and
the institution in which they are
located.
To know if your graduate school offers
research fellowship, contact their
Financial Aid office or the department
graduate office.
To see if there are more scholarship, fellowship, and
grant for graduate school beside the one mention
above, go to this website,
http://www.scholarships.com/scholarship-search.aspx