If you are applying to a computer science PhD program, you should also apply to some of the graduate fellowship programs listed below. Winning such a fellowship will dramatically increase your chances of admission to the department of your choice. We also strongly encourage all of our eligible PhD graduate students to apply to these programs.
| National Science Foundation | General |
| National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) | General |
| DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSFG) | General |
| Department of Homeland Security Fellowship | See Website for Topics |
| DOE High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship | High-Performance Computing |
| Hertz Foundation Fellowship | General |
| nVidia Fellowship | Graphics Related |
| NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Fellowship | NASA Related Topics |
| Link Foundation Fellowship | Simulation and Training |
| Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship | General |
| Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships For Minorities | General |
| IBM PhD Fellowship | General |
| Lucent Cooperative Research Fellowship Program (CRFP) | General |
| National Physical Sciences Consortium | General |
| GEM Fellowship | General |
| The Google Anita Borg Scholarships | General |