Graduate Fellowship and Funding Information
The Department encourages all graduate students to look for outside fellowship opportunities, as well as external research support. It never hurts to have a fellowship or research grant on your CV, it makes the Department’s own funding go further, and some fellowships include benefits that the Department can’t provide or that supplement those that the Department does provide, including summer, travel or research support.
Several University units maintain websites listing fellowship and research opportunities, as well as links to funding databases. Although these websites duplicate each other to some extent, it’s worth browsing through at least one of them to see if there is something that suits you. They include:
- Stanford's Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education external funding web page includes links to several searchable databases of funding opportunities.
- Stanford's Financial Aid Office external funding web page includes a list of nationally competitive fellowship programs.
- Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences maintains a list of fellowship and funding opportunities it offers graduate students in the School.
- Stanford’s Bechtel International Center's Office of Global Scholarship maintains an index of scholarship opportunities.
- Stanford University’s List of Fellowships is designed for advanced undergraduates, but it includes links to some major fellowship programs available to beginning graduate students.
Many of the available opportunities are designed for beginning and dissertation-year graduate students, but there are opportunities for students at every stage of graduate study. Keep in mind that many fellowship programs have application closing dates in the fall and almost all of them have deadlines by mid-January. Most of them also only accept applications once or twice a year. For this reason, do check out these websites regularly to identify new and future opportunities, so you can be ready to apply at the appropriate time.
For information on graduate fellowship and funding programs and websites that might be particularly useful to graduate students in linguistics, as well as information on relevant postdoctoral fellowship opportunities, please contact the Linguistics Assistant Director of Student Services or the Director of Graduate Studies.
Other Stanford University Resources for Graduate Students
Stanford Support Programs include the Graduate Family Grant Program, Emergency Grant-In-Aid, Graduate Housing Loan, and more.
Grad Cash Advance is a University resource available to graduate students to assist them with expenses before their graduate financial support is posted to their student account and/or TA/RA salary is paid. Graduate students can request an advance in increments of $1,000 to $4,000 every quarter. The funds will arrive in their bank account generally within 3 business days. No interest or fees will be charged and, generally, the Cash Advance is not taxable.