Grants for Graduate Students

External funding includes:

• Grants
• Scholarships
• Fellowships
• Gifts

Graduate students might need any of these to:

• Complete research for a thesis or dissertation
• Collect or purchase data
• Conduct field work
• Provide stipends, salary, or travel funds

Writing proposals for external funding as a graduate student provides:

• Experience writing academic proposals
• Opportunities to build a professional network
• Credentials for the curriculum vitae
• Opportunities to strengthen scholarly reading, writing, and research habits
• Growing awareness of the demands in specific academic fields & in the academic community at large
• Opportunities to be mentored and to mentor others

By deciding to pursue an advanced degree, you became part of an academic culture comprised of many traditions.  One of these traditions is external funding, that is, support from a benefactor that allows you to build and enhance your expertise.     Your benefactor may be a foundation or other private sector group, a coporate entity, or government (local or national).  Here are just a few sites where you can begin to learn about the history of philanthropy. Many countries have rich histories of giving.  Where do you fit in?  

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