Non-APS Scholarships and Fellowships

APS has compiled a list of other scholarships, fellowships, and internships for minorities, women, and general students as a service to students and does not endorse any particular program.

  Minority Scholarships
  Women Scholarships
  General Scholarships
  Minority and Women Fellowships
  General Fellowships
  Internships

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Minority Scholarships

American Geological Institute (AGI) Minority Participation Program
AGI Minority Geoscience Student Scholarships
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates enrolled in an accredited institution as an undergraduate student majoring (i.e., degree candidate) in geoscience, including the geoscience subdisciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, meteorology, physical oceanography, planetary geology, or earth-science education only. Financial support is for full-time students only, with demonstrable financial need, with verifiable ethnic-minority status as Black, Hispanic, or Native American (American Indian, Eskimo, Hawaiian, or Samoan). US citizens only. Permanent residents (green card) or candidates for U.S citizenship are not eligible.

American Indian Science & Engineering Society Scholarships (AISES)
A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility Criteria: Candidate will be full-time undergraduate student (12 hrs. per semester) at an accredited four-year college/university, or will be a full-time graduate student (9 hrs. per semester) at an accredited four-year college/university, or will be a full-time student at a two-year college enrolled in a program leading to an academic degree; will be majoring in one of the following: math, physical science, engineering, medicine, science, or natural resources; a member of an American Indian tribe or otherwise considered to be an American Indian by the tribe with which affiliation is claimed or is at least 1/4 American Indian blood or is at least 1/4 Alaskan Native or considered to be an Alaskan Native by an Alaskan Native group by which affiliation is claimed; has a 2.0 or higher cumulative grade point average (GPA). Must be a current member of AISES.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Summer Internships in Science & Technology
Eligibility Criteria: The Program is open to all students with a strong preference given to qualifying minority students of Native American, Hispanic, and African American ethnicities in the US that historically have been underrepresented in science and technology; enrolled in four-year institutions in the USA who are United States citizens or are foreign nationals with proper work visas.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates must be of Hispanic heritage (one parent must be fully Hispanic or both parents must be half Hispanic), a U.S. Citizen or a Permanent Resident (with permanent resident card), have earned at least 15 undergraduate college credits in the U.S. or Puerto Rico with a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.7 on a 4.0 scale (3.7 on a 5 point scale), be attending an accredited U.S. college full-time (undergraduates must carry at least 12 credits each term, graduate students must carry at least 6 credits each term)

The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF)
JRF Scholarship Award
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates must be minority high school seniors, US Citizens, accepted to a four-year accredited college or university; with SAT score of 900 or above; or ACT score of 23 or above; possess leadership potential and have a financial need.

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
LULAC National Educational Services Center, Inc.
GE fund and GM Fund LULAC Scholarship Program
Eligibility Criteria: Candidate must meet the following criteria to be considered for a scholarship: Must be a minority student pursuing full-time studies leading to a bachelor’s degree at an accredited college or university in the U.S. Must be classified as a college sophomore in the fall semester. Must have a college grade point average of at least 3.25 on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent. Must be a business or engineering major. Must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident.

Eligibility Criteria: Candidate must be a minority student pursuing full-time studies leading to a bachelor’s degree at a college approved by LULAC and GM; have a college grade point average of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent, or for entering freshman, have a high school grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent. Entering freshman must have also scored at least 23 on the ACT test (composite) or at least 970 on the SAT test (verbal & math) and must major in courses leading to a professional career in engineering.

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
Engineering Vanguard Program
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates must be high school seniors; studying engineering (some exceptions are made for mathematics, physics and engineering technology); must be enrolled full-time in engineering and maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7; and may not work more than 5-10 hours per week.

National Urban League (NUL)
National Urban League Scholarship Programs
View website for links to many scholarship opportunity’s for minority and other students.

Women Scholarships

Siemens Foundation
Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement
Eligibility Criteria: Scholarships are given to 24 students, two females and two males in each of the six College Board regions, who have earned the highest and next to highest number of AP scores of 5 in seven exams. The exams are Biology, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Computer Science AB, Environmental Science, Physics C (Physics C: Mechanics and Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism each count as ½), and Statistics. All US high schools students are eligible, as are students who are home-schooled, and high school students in US territories. The student must still be in high school in December when the award is made.

General Scholarships

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
The Truman Scholarship
Eligibility Criteria: Nominees must be a full-time junior-level student at a four-year institution pursuing a bachelor's degree, or a student in his or her second or third year of collegiate study, or a senior-level student who is a resident of Puerto Rico or the Islands, committed to a career in public service as defined above, in the upper quarter of his or her class, and a United States citizen or a United States national from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Resident aliens (green card holders) are not eligible.

Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Scholarships
Eligibility Criteria: Students must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States. Any serious student in grades 9-12 with the potential or demonstrated interest in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics is eligible to participate in a regional symposium. Further, JSHS invites entries from high school students who have conducted original research in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics.

Minority & Women Fellowships

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowships
AAAS Congressional Fellowships
Eligibility Criteria: Applications are invited from individuals in any physical, biological, or social science, any field of engineering, or any relevant interdisciplinary field. All Candidates must have a Ph.D. or an equivalent doctoral-level degree by the application deadline. Individuals with a master's degree in engineering and at least three years of post-degree professional experience may apply. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Federal employees are not eligible. Underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The Geological Society of America (GSA)
Grants for Graduate Students
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates must be a member of GSA to apply; for graduate earth science students at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. GSA strongly encourages women, minorities, and persons with disabilities to participate fully in this grants program.

Frannie & John Hertz Foundation
Fellowship Program in Applied Physical Science
Graduate Fellowship Awards
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates for Hertz Fellowships must be students of the applied physical sciences who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States of America, and who are willing to morally commit to make their skills available to the United States in time of national emergency. College seniors wishing to pursue the Ph.D. degree in any of the fields of particular interest to the Foundation, as well as graduate students already in the process of doing so, may apply.

General Fellowships

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellowships
Science, Justice and Public Policy Fellowships
Eligibility Criteria: Prospective Fellows must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral-level degree by the application deadline. Individuals with a master's degree in engineering and at least three years of post-degree professional experience may also apply. Applications are invited from individuals in any physical, biological or social science, any field of engineering, or any relevant interdisciplinary field. All Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Federal employees are not eligible for the fellowships.

AAAS/NIH Science Policy Fellowships
Eligibility Criteria: Candidates in any physical, biological, or behavioral science, medicine, any field of engineering or any relevant interdisciplinary field; must have an M.D., Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral-level degree by the application deadline; and must be U.S. citizens. Federal employees are not eligible.

AAAS/EPA Environmental Fellowships
Eligibility Criteria: Applications are invited from individuals in any physical, biological or social science, any field of engineering or any relevant interdisciplinary field. All Candidates must have a Ph.D. or an equivalent doctoral-level degree by the application deadline. Individuals with a master’s degree in engineering and at least three years of post-degree professional experience may apply. Federal employees are not eligible for the fellowships. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

AAAS/NSF Science & Engineering Fellowships
Eligibility Criteria: Applications are invited from individuals in any physical, biological, or social science, any field of engineering, or any relevant interdisciplinary field. All Candidates must have a Ph.D. or an equivalent doctoral-level degree by the application deadline (January 10, 2003). Individuals with a master's degree in engineering and at least three years of post-degree professional experience may apply. All Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Federal employees are not eligible for the fellowships.

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Fellowships
All Fellowships are awarded to incoming graduate students at academic institutions accredited for their graduate programs in Medical Physics by Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs, Inc. (CAMPEP).