Research funding opportunities

Most students are able to take advantage of numerous opportunities to finance their graduate education and research activities, including departmental fellowships, campus fellowships, and UC-wide grants. In addition, an array of loans (some "forgivable"), aid packages and teaching opportunities help to make a UC graduate education affordable to all. Each campus maintains extensive lists of funding opportunities that allow students to conduct research.  A growing number of UC-wide grants are available to graduate students through the network of UC Multicampus Research Units (click on Systemwide Opportunities below).  And don't forget about non-UC opportunities-sources — these are also listed here.

• Berkeley
• Davis
• Irvine
• Los Angeles
• Merced
• Riverside
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• Santa Barbara
• Santa Cruz
• Institute of Humanities Research (dissertation fellowships)

Systemwide Opportunities

Funding opportunities are also available through the following programs:

• Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative
• California Sea Grant
• White Mountain Research Center


Extramural Funding and Career Resources for graduate students

• National Institutes of Health-Oxford University-Cambridge University Scholars in Biomedical Research programs
• UCLA Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database
• An excellent list of extramural funding sources, maintained by the UCSB graduate division
• NextWave: Funding and career resources for graduate scientists
• Community of Science