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Graduate Fellowship Information
Important Things to Know About Fellowships
- Every grad student should consider applying for at least one
fellowship in their first year.
- Every grad student who is a US citizen should consider applying
for the NSF graduate fellowship in their first year. The NSF
graduate fellowship program by far gives away the most fellowships.
Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Deadline
for NSF is typically November 5th. You are only eligible in your
first year of grad school.
- You do not at all need to have published a research paper to
receive a fellowship. However you should have good grades in your
last two years and good letters of recommendation.
Top N Reasons to Apply for a Fellowship
- Prestige A fellowship is much more prestigious than a
simple RA or TA. The prestige of having a fellowship will give you an
edge when you apply for academic, research or industry positions after
obtaining a PhD. If you have not already entered a PhD program,
having a fellowship will help you get accepted to a good dept(some
depts like Carnegie Mellon accept basically all students who have NSF
fellowships)
- Money NSF Fellowships now pay $27,500 per year and they
last for three years. This money is significantly more than you can
earn as a TA or RA
- You have a good shot! If you are doing well academically
and have impressed some professors, you have a good shot at getting a
fellowship. While it is helpful to have done some research, you do
not need to have published any papers to get a fellowship. New Mexico
is an Epscor state, which basically means that we benefit from an
affirmative action program for our state when it comes to receiving
money from NSF. This makes it somewhat easier for students in New
Mexico to obtain funding from NSF compared with students in other
states, giving you leg up on the competition. Of course you will
also need to have a very strong application to obtain a fellowship,
but this Epscor status is one more reason to apply. Our faculty, in
particular, have had lots of success in getting money from NSF.
- You will help UNM! If you receive a fellowship, then you
will obviously help boost the prestige of our dept. Even if you do
not receive the fellowship, you will help the dept in the following
way: The number of fellowships our dept receives is a function of the
number of good applications for fellowships that have been submitted
in the past. For this reason, if you have a strong application, even
if it doesn't get funded, you will help the dept get more funding in
the future.
Fellowship Listings
The following page, maintained by Tom Cormen of Dartmouth is a short
compilation of information on fellowships available for graduate study
in computer science. It lists all of the major fellowships with
deadlines, restrictions, award amounts and links to application forms.
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