Financial Support for Graduate Students

Graduate students are eligible for different funding opportunities in the colleges. Please see the colleges (below) for specific details on the opportunities available. In addition, graduate students may be eligible for assistantships and other work opportunities. These opportunities can be found by clicking on this link which will direct you to our assistantships and work opportunities page

Internal Graduate Student Merit Scholarship

The Graduate Merit Scholarship recognizes a limited number of current graduate students with outstanding achievement by providing a fifth year of study in a graduate degree program free of tuition at Lehigh University. Click here for full information regarding this merit scholarship.

Outside Lehigh Grants

This grant is for students pursing independent research in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biologial science. Students typically apply for this grant in the fall. Click here for more information.

Microsoft offers a variety of different grants for graduate students. Students typically apply for these in the fall. Click here for more information.

This grant supports research in science, engineering, and medicine. Students typically apply for this grant in the fall or spring. Click here for more information.

This grant supports international activities across all NSF-supported disciplines. Students typically apply for this grant in the spring. Click here for more information.

This grant supports the resarch and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Students typically apply in the spring. Click here for more information.

The goal of this program is to broaden the pool of scientists pursuing drug discovery. To advance this goal, Atomwise will award researchers with a customized virtual screen using cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, approximately 72 chemical compounds for physical screening, and technical support from medicinal chemists and computational biologists. Click here for more information.

Fellowships

Graduate students may also fund their education through fellowships. Fellowships can be found within Lehigh or through outside organizations and companies.

Lehigh's Office of Fellowship Advising also provides a list of fellowships and scholarships for graduate students. Click the button below to see if any of the opportunities fit your research!

Office of Fellowship Advising List Lehigh Pasteur PhD Partners Fellowship for STEM students

Outside Graduate Fellowships

This fellowship is through Boston College and funds students who are conducting projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship is open for social science graduate students, including psychology and history. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship is for students pursuing dissertations on religion and ethics. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship provides one year support for graduate students in child psychology. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship funds students for up to two years to provide support with dissertation writing and provide a peer network. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship supports students conducting dissertations in a wide variety of disciplines with the goal of increasing the ethnic and racial diversity. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship fund doctoral students in early American history at the McNeil Center in Philadelphia. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship supports research on formal and informal education. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship targets promising graduate students pursuing health related research. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This fellowship seeks to "help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States." Click here for fellowship guidelines.

This is the twentieth year that NVIDIA has invited PhD students to submit their research projects for consideration. Recipients are selected based on their academic achievements, professor nomination, and area of research. We have found this program to be a great way to support academia in its pursuit of cutting edge innovation, as well as an ideal avenue to introduce NVIDIA to the future leaders of our industry.

This fellowship supports dissertation research using non-U.S. subjects. Click here for fellowship guidelines.

Nothing fit? Try this database:

SPIN Sponsored Research Database

Financial Support for Graduate Students