Graduate fellowship opportunities abound for doctoral students. See below for links to notable external fellowships, along with deadline information and applicant criteria. 

Name Deadline Targeting

Gates Cambridge Scholarship

 10/10/2018 Graduating
Hertz 10/24/2018 1st and 2nd yrs, US Citizen

Paul and Daisy Soros

 11/1/2018

New Americans

Facebook

 10/12/2018  

GEM Fellowship

 11/13/2018

US Citizen, Minority

AAUW American

 12/1/2018 Women, US Citizen, PR

Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future

 11/7/2018 Women

SMART Scholarship

 12/1/2018 US Citizen

Symantec

 11/30/2018  

NDSEG

 Open 9/4/2018

1, 2 and 3rd yrs

Ford Foundation

 1/9/2019

Citizen, PR

Advanced Simulation and Training Fellowship

 1/15/2019  

DOE CSGF

 TBA 1st year students

NVIDIA

 12/14/2018 Beyond 1st year

Google, Anita Borg

 TBA  Women

John von Neumann Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

 Closes 11/26/2018

Graduating

The Naval Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Ongoing

Graduating

Nasa Space Technology Research Fellowship

 TBA  

Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace 

 10/9/2018

2nd years must self identify see eligibilty criteria

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program

 10/9/2018

Must be nominated by the University. Direct apps not accepted

Cornell Provost Diversity Fellowship 

 9/30/2018

2nd years

NSF**

 10/22/2018

1st and 2nd yrs, US Citizen, PR

**Effective as of the 2017 competition (Fall 2016 deadlines), graduate students are limited to only one application to the GRFP, submitted either in the first year or in the second year of graduate school. An exception is provided for first-year graduate students who applied in Fall 2015 to the 2016 GRFP competition; these individuals may apply a second time in Fall 2016, if they are otherwise eligible. All other graduate students are subject to the new eligibility requirements.