FUNDING FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL

It is important to determine how you will pay your tuition, books, living and perhaps moving expenses before deciding to attend a particular school. 

Click on names for links to each institution!

1. Teaching and research assistantships, the application process, who is eligible, get faculty support at institution, ask about what it provides health insurance, tuition waiver, and amount of monthly stipend.
2. Local employment- ask the department if there are CRM or Applied opportunities through local businesses for graduate students.
3. Ford Foundation Minority Pre-doctoral and Dissertation Fellowships
4. The Gates Millennium Scholars for Minority Students
5. Hispanic Scholarship Fund
6. Rockefeller Foundation
7. Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
8. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
9. FLAS Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
10. Fulbright Program Many UCSD graduate students have had their work supported by the Fulbright Program.
    (An additional informative web site is that of the Fulbright Association, a separate organization of Fulbright alumni, with links to other international grant opportunities.)
    Fulbright grants are available to qualified citizens of the United States. They do not need to be affiliated with universities.
11. The Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Support for basic research in all branches of anthropology. This is a major source of anthropology research funding.
12. National Science Foundation
    Funding for research and education in science and engineering. A fair amount of anthropology research is sustained from this source. An undergraduate NSF program provides top candidates with a stipend that may be used to begin study in a graduate school of their choice (contingent upon admission).
13. National Institutes of Health
    An important funding source, especially in psychological and medical anthropology.
14. Society of Research Administrators' GrantsWeb, a portal to a wide range of research funding sources.
15. Institute of Museum and Library Services - Museum and Library Grants
16. American Indian Graduate Center
17. Federal Student Loans and Federal Student Aid Application- U.S government loans.  Remember that if you spend 10 years in grad school and then borrow $10,000 a year which is not much to live on, by the time you finish you could buy yourself a modest house or a couple of luxury vehicles, but the trade off is a career that you love. Try to AVOID UNSUBSIDIED loans, because the interest is flexible on these loans.