Financial Support
It is our expectation that all students making satisfactory progress in the program will be fully funded (tuition, fees and salary) for the duration of their studies. We will help you secure this funding through a variety of sources including faculty research grants, fellowships, teaching assistantships or other sources.
To enhance accessibility, UCLA and IoES provide substantial financial support to recruit outstanding students and ensure their success. Entering and continuing students may receive fellowships, trainee-ships and employment-based opportunities to support their studies and enhance their academic, research and training portfolios.
Please visit https://grad.ucla.edu/funding to search for graduate funding, and the UCLA Financial Aid website for more funding options for graduate students.
Common Fellowship Opportunities for Students:
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
- Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship
- Dr. Ursula Mandel Fellowship
- Malcolm R. Stacey Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Water Research Institute
- UCLA Competitive Edge
- Pathways to Science
- American Water Works Association
- Keck Humanistic Inquiry Research Award
- Barbara Maida Fellowship
- UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Dissertation Fellowship
- Fulbright
- Switzer Foundation Fellowship
- Sustainable LA Grand Challenge EDI Fellowship
- Pankaj Parekh Graduate Fellowship (IoES)
- Pritzker IMPACT Fellowship (IoES)
- INFEWS Program Fellowship
- Summer Mentored Research Fellowship (SMRF)
- Letters and Science Graduate Fellowship
- John Fellowship
- Charles F. Scott Fellowship
- UCLA Faculty Women’s Club Scholarship
- UCLA Affiliates
- Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship
- Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award
- Graduate Research Mentorship Program
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program
- UC-HBCU Program Fellowship
- UC-MEXUS Program Fellowship
- Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship
- Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award