Matching Commitment Sponsors

Matching Commitment Full Sponsor List 

If you believe a sponsor should be added to this list, please send an inquiry with the full fellowship details to the External Fellowship team.

  • Category 1

Graduate Studies provides matching funds equal to the full balance of fees and tuition not funded by the external fellowship, including NRST. Matching funds for NRST are provided for the first year only.

- AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship

- ACLS Luce Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

- American Heart Association - Predoctoral Fellowship ($1000 “fringe benefit” is to be applied toward health insurance fees per AHA policy)

- American Society for Engineering Education SMART Scholarship (balance of UC SHIP fees not covered by fellowship only)

Autism Speaks Fellowship - Royal Arch Research Assistance

- BECAS Chile (support for English language instruction if needed and balance of UC SHIP fees not covered by fellowship)

- Boren Fellowship for International Study (match only for study outside US to cover In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

- CA Sea Grant Program - Delta Science Fellowship

- Chateaubriand Fellowship (match only for SHIP while here)

- DAAD Fellowship (match for In Absentia fees)

- Department of Energy, Office of Science Graduate Fellowship

- Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship

- Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington (In Absentia fees)

- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

- Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (match only for In Absentia fees and tuition for one year less UC SHIP fees)

- Fulbright U.S. Student (match only for study outside US to cover In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD) - (formerly NPSC - master’s students OK)

- GRFP INTERN (match for In Absentia fees if student is not on tenure for GRFP)

- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships

- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Int'l Research Fellowship

- Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship (In Absentia fees)

- Jacob Javits (USDE) Fellowship

- McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fellowships (In Absentia fees)

- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program - Renewals

- NASA Education Aeronautics Scholarship and Advanced STEM Training and Research (AS&ASTAR) Fellowship

- NASA Fellowship Activity 

- NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)

- NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF)

- NIH NRSA Individual Fellowships (F31)

- NIH NRSA Individual Fellowship (F30) (only during PhD portion of studies)

- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRI/DDRIG) (match only for study outside US to cover In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars (match provided only in the years when a stipend is received)   

- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship

- Social Security Administration's Disability Research Consortium dissertation fellowship

- SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship (match only for In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

- USDA NIFA AFRI Predoctoral Fellowships Grant Program

- Woodrow Wilson Foundation - Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (match only for In Absentia fees for one year)

  • Category 2

Graduate Studies provides matching funds equal to 50% of fees, tuition and NRST not funded by the external fellowship. The graduate program is expected to fund the remaining 50%. Matching funds for NRST are provided for the first year only.

- AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship

- ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowships in East European Studies

- ACLS African Humanities Program Dissertation Completion Fellowship

- American Physiological Society Porter Physiology Development Fellowship

- American Society for Microbiology Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship

- Autism Science Foundation

- California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP)

- Charles Eastman Predoctoral Fellowship (in absentia fees for the predoctoral portion of fellowship)

- Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Wellbeing

- GEM Full Fellowship MS (The match is for the first year only)

- GEM Full Fellowship Engineering PhD (The match is for Year 1 and Year 2 only) 

- Huntington Library Short Term Huntington Fellowship

- Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellowship

- Leakey Foundation Research Grant (match only for In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

- Link Foundation Energy Field/Ocean Engineering

- Link Foundation Advanced Simulation & Training Fellowships

- Max Kade Foundation

- National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship-PhD Award only

- Newberry Short Term Fellowships (In Absentia fees and tuition only)

- NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program (fees, tuition, and nonresident supplemental tuition)

- Sandia Labs Fellowships

- UNCF Merck Graduate Science Dissertation Research Fellowship

- UCSD NMFS Sea Grant Program

- UCSD Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

- U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program (In Absentia fees and tuition only for the period of the award)

- WWF Kathryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship (match only for study outside US to cover In Absentia fees and tuition for one year)

  • Category 3

Graduate Studies provides matching funds for NRST. Master’s students may request funds for the first year and doctoral students may receive funds for the first two years.

- Fulbright Fellowships

- Vietnam International Education Development (VIED) program