General description

The President's Graduate Fellowship Program was established in 2000 to enhance the opportunity to attract the best students to Rice's over thirty graduate programs.

President's Graduate Fellowships are for entering graduate students intending to pursue a doctoral degree in the Schools of Engineering, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, and Ph.D. and graduate degrees in the Schools of Architecture and Music.

For graduate Ph.D. programs in the School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences, President's Fellows receive a four-year Fellowship stipend supplement of $5,000 per year above the standard incoming Ph.D. stipend as well as an annual full tuition waiver (e.g. if a program’s standard annual stipend for an incoming Ph.D. student is $18,000, an incoming President’s Fellow would receive a stipend of $23,000).

President's Fellows in the School of Humanities and the School Social Sciences, President's Fellows receive a four-year Fellowship stipend supplement of $7,000 per year above the standard incoming Ph.D. stipend as well as an annual full tuition waiver (e.g. if a program’s standard annual stipend for incoming an Ph.D. student is $15,000, an incoming President’s Fellow would receive a stipend of $22,000).

In the School of Music, President's Fellows receive a four-year Fellowship at a stipend supplement of $3,500 per year as well as an annual full tuition waiver.

In the School of Architecture, President's Fellows receive a four-year Fellowship at a stipend supplement of $2,000 per year as well as an annual full tuition waiver.

Application process

Nominations for a President's Fellowship award are made directly by the graduate program, and potential nominees should apply to the graduate program of interest in the normal way.