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Awards and Opportunities
The following is a summary of special fellowships and other funding and award opportunities provided and/or administered by the Graduate School-New Brunswick. Unless otherwise indicated, individual fellows are selected by the Graduate School, which bases its decisions on the principles of merit as well as fair and reasonable distribution among the relevant units. The Dean of the Graduate School will be advised in the allocation of funding opportunities by the Executive Council of the New Brunswick Graduate Faculty. Announcements will be mailed out with information on application procedures and deadlines. Students do not apply directly for these fellowships; they are nominated by graduate program directors.
Diversity Fellowships
Several fellowships intended to enhance diversity in graduate education in New Brunswick and/or Rutgers University are administered through the Graduate School:
- Graduate School Diversity Fellowships (formerly MAP): Stipends and tuition available for Ph.D. students.
- MAC Fellowships: The Graduate School Nominates students to this State-run program.
- Trustees Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Stipends and tuition for 5 doctoral students and 2 Master's students university-wide.
- Robeson Fellowship: Stipend (half provided by an endowment, half by the Graduate School) for one African-American doctoral student.
- Ralph Bunche Fellowships: Stipends for 16 students (one or two-year awards); Master's and professional-degree students are eligible. Candidates are presented to the Graduate School by the relevant degree granting units.
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- University/Bevier Fellowships: Stipends and partial tuition for 12 New Brunswick dissertation-stage students, selected by an appointed committee of New Brunswick Graduate Faculty members, and one stipend for a Graduate School-NB entering student who had received a baccalaureate degree from Rutgers.
- Hazel Vera Dean Fellowships: Fellowships for Graduate School-NB doctoral students who are New Jersey residents.
Matching Tuitions
The Graduate School also provides tuition awards to match competitive, prestigious fellowships won by individual graduate students in all GSNB programs. In most instances the Graduate School also provides health insurance to such students.
Other funding opportunities for supporting students
The Graduate School has extremely limited funds to support graduate students' research and travel expenses.
- Dean’s Research Awards
- Conference. Three rounds of competition are held annually.
- Special study funds (to attend special courses or summer programs away from campus, in areas of specialization unavailable at Rutgers).
- Pre-dissertation travel funds (for preliminary work).
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Each spring, the Graduate School honors faculty members and graduate students for outstanding contributions to teaching and research. Faculty committees select two faculty members to receive awards for graduate teaching, two graduate students to receive awards for undergraduate teaching, and up to six graduate students to be recognized for outstanding dissertation research. In addition, two awards are made for staff excellence. Award certificates and checks for $1000 are presented at a reception in late April hosted by the Dean of the Graduate School.
Dissertation Teaching awards are for graduate students interested in developing an advanced undergraduate course in the general area of their dissertation research. A faculty committee selects four graduate students based on their achievements in teaching and scholarship and the quality of their course proposals. Each award carries a summer stipend of $3,500, intended to allow the student time to prepare a course for the following Spring term. The student's compensation for teaching the course is the responsibility of the offering unit.
Distinguished Alumni/ae Awards
Each Fall nominations are solicited for awards to distinguished alumni/ae. The deadline is October 1. One award is made in each of the four general areas of study and additional awards are made for early career and for lifetime achievement. Awards are presented at a dinner on the first Friday of March