What is meant by Scholarship and Fellowship?

Scholarship is an award or financial aid to a student for the purpose of furthering his/her education. Fellowships are generally monetary rewards at the graduate or post graduate level, for working in a particular field, they receive stipend, which are slightly above the living wages.

Scholarships & Fellowships

Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships are highly competitive and well known reward programs that offer attractive financial incentives to qualifying students. It is in short recognition of excellence in specific fields. Winning them show cases your talent beyond boundaries. Scholarships are both national and international in scope. Nominations for some these programs should be received from the respective schools.

The basis of grant depends on various criterion ranging from overall performance, GPA scores, inventions and innovations, significant contribution in a particular field, further studies in a particular field of study to testing of competitive skills in various areas of specialization.

The rewards for these programs are mostly financial grants, sponsoring of education and research activity including all incidental expenses, allotment of projects, permissions and support for entry and study, international recognitions, conferring of titles, cash rewards, gifts and freebies.

Given below is a comprehensive list.

Undergraduate Scholarship Programs

• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
• Presidential Scholars Program (alternate site)
• Apple Scholars
• Gates Millennium Scholars
• Coca-Cola Scholars Program Scholarship
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• Collegiate Inventors Competition
• Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program
• Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student Competition
• Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
• Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship Program
• Intel Science Talent Search
• Intel Research Award Contest for Undergraduate Students
• Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology
• NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program
• National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC)
• Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program
• Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships

Graduate Fellowship Programs

• Winston Churchill Scholarship Program
• Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• AT&T Labs Fellowship Program
• Beinecke Scholarship Program
• EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship Program
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
• Gates Cambridge Scholarships
• Fulbright Fellowships
• IBM PhD Fellowships
• British Chevening Scholarships
• Mellon Fellowships
• NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships
• National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship
• National Security Education Program Graduate Fellowships
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education