Scholarships
Financial Support & Scholarships
University of Utah Scholarships
IME-BECAS Scholarship for Higher Education
The goal of the scholarship, funded jointly by the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME)
and private donations, is to provide financial assistance for promising low‐income
students who
speak a Latin American language at home and are interested in pursuing studies in
the languages, history, cultures or societies of Latin American countries. Undocumented students, with or without DACA, are encouraged to apply.
Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant
Funding for travel and field-related expenses for brief periods of field research in Latin America. Recipients may be graduate students at the master's or early stages of their doctoral level studies, including those pursuing professional degrees. Field research trips should range from 2 weeks to 4 months of duration.
A list of fellowships available for graduate students at the University of Utah.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships are federally funded awards offered through the University of Utah's Center for Latin American Studies. They provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students who study modern foreign languages and related area studies.
For graduate students in the Colleges of Education and Humanities as well as for direct descendants of Ellen Christina Steffensen Cannon. Award includes tuition for graduate students only; renewable one year. 12 to 15 awards given annually.
Excellence through Diversity Fellowship
The Excellence Through Diversity Fellowship (ETDF) is designed to help support and recruit historically underrepresented graduate students to the University of Utah. The ETDF offers financial support to promising underrepresented graduate students who have been admitted to a graduate program and will begin their studies in the next academic year.
National Scholarships
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
Rangel International Affairs Program
The Rangel Program is a collaborative effort between Howard University and the U.S. State Department that seeks to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers as diplomats in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State.
Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs provide funding to participants as they are prepared academically and professionally to enter the United States Department of State Foreign Service. Women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, and students with financial need are encouraged to apply.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
Open to US citizens or permanent residents who at the time of application have not yet completed their first year of graduate study or will be entering graduate school for the first time in the next academic year.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Research Fellowship
International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships: Open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, regardless of citizenship, who have completed all PhD requirements except for field work by the time the fellowship begins. Fellowships, usually nine months, must be held for a single continuous period.
Faculty Scholarships
