Full Description
For more than fifteen years The Graduate School Funding Handbook has been an invaluable resource for students applying to graduate school in the United States or abroad, at the master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. Illuminating the competitive world of graduate education funding in the arts, humanities, sciences, and engineering, the book offers general and specific information in an intelligent, comprehensive, and straightforward manner so that readers can save time and make winning grant and fellowship applications.
The authors include detailed descriptions of the types of funding offered graduate students, ranging from tuition scholarships to assistantships, work-study opportunities, and university loan programs. In addition, the handbook thoroughly covers the availability of nationally prominent grants and fellowships through the federal government and private organizations. This revised third edition provides a wealth of additional information and advice and details a number of new grant opportunities including several aimed at women, minorities, and other underrepresented student groups. Covering fellowships and grants for individual training, study abroad, research, dissertations, and postdoctoral work, the book includes useful addresses, deadlines, number of available awards, number of applicants, purpose of grants and restrictions, duration of awards, applicant eligibility, and application requirements. The information is comprehensive, detailed, and current, based on data from funding agencies through interviews, review of application packets, web site information, and the authors' many years of experience in the field.
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Chapter 1. Graduate Degrees and Institutional Financial Aid
-Types of Graduate Degrees
-Degree Program Enrollment, Time to Degree, Career Status, Cost
-Institutional Financial Aid
-Types of University Financial Aid
-External Fellowships and Grants
-Resources
Chapter 2. External Funding
-Questions to Ask When Considering a Fellowship Application
-Where Should You Look to Find Information About Fellowships and Grants?
-Types of External Funding
-Grant and Fellowship Application Tips
-Proposal Writing Advice
-How to Get Good References
-Resources
Chapter 3. Training Fellowships
-General Information
-General Application Advice
-Specific Fellowship Opportunities
Chapter 4. Study, Research, and Teaching Abroad
-General Information
-Application Advice
-Specific Fellowship Opportunities
-Other Study-Abroad Fellowship Programs and Goals
Chapter 5. Research Grants
-General Information
-Application Advice
-Specific Grant Opportunities
Chapter 6. Dissertation Fellowships and Grants
-General Information
-Application Advice
-Specific Grant Opportunities
-Other Dissertation Fellowships and Goals
Chapter 7. Postdoctoral Opportunities
Jennifer S. Furlong
-General Information
-General Application Advice
-The Curriculum Vitae
-Recommendations
-Other Written Materials
-Evaluating Opportunities
-The Bottom Line
-Specific Postdoctoral Opportunities
Index
