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 - Full Match
  • 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 UC SHIP while here)
    DAAD Fellowship (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 (In Absentia fees and tuition for one year, no UC SHIP)
    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 are allowable)
    Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute International 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 (F30/31/31D - F30 only for 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 [HPRS] (match provided only in the years when a stipend is received)
    Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship
    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 - Partial Match
  • 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 Fellowship (Fellowship duration must be for three months or longer)
    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, must be for duration of three months or longer)
    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 - NRST Only
  • 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