Funding
Graduate & Postdoctoral Extramural Support (GRAPES) Database - Search Form
GRAPES is not a fellowship or scholarship, rather it is an extensive database created by UCLA to help graduate students search for funding opportunities from institutions all over the world. Graduate students in need of funding (from all disciplines) are encouraged to become very familiar with the GRAPES database, and to reference it regularly. Funding opportunities stemming directly from UCLA are sometimes limited. With GRAPES, however, graduate students may search for hundreds of potential funding sources from many universities and institutions outside of UCLA.
UCLA Funding Opportunities
Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP) for incoming students
This competitive one-year program provides recipients with a stipend plus tuition (and nonresident supplemental tuition if necessary). The program nominates and supports a limited number of entering students pursuing either terminal or professional master's degrees. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or undocumented students who qualify for nonresident supplemental tuition exemptions under AB 540 (eligibility for undocumented AB540 students is effective January 1, 2013). The intent of this fellowship is to provide access to higher education for students who might otherwise find it difficult or impossible to successfully pursue graduate study.
East Asian Studies Program Fellowship for incoming students (both international and domestic students are eligible). No application required. Students are awarded the fellowship based on merit during the application review process.
Alice Belkin Memorial Scholarship for continuing students
The UCLA Burkle Center awards outstanding minority graduate students who have financial need and research interests relating to globalization and international relations with scholarships up to $4,000 each academic year. Scholarships are granted to qualified applicants who demonstrate leadership skills and academic achievement.
UCLA Asia Pacific Center funding opportunities can be found here.
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies funding opportunities can be found here.
TA Marketplace: Registered students are highly encouraged to subscribe to this group which advertises Teaching Assistantship vacancies on campus. Students must be registered to access the group's announcements.
Non-UCLA Fellowships
Boren Fellowship
Boren Fellowships provide funding for U.S. graduate students to study world regions critical to U.S. interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East). The fellowship is available to U.S. citizens or permanent residents only. Maximum awards for the Boren Fellowships are $30,000. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
The U.S. Department of State funds about 600 students for summer language institutes abroad at various skill levels. CLS is a program of the U.S. Department of State and provides fully funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen graduate students. Scholars will complete language coursework as well meeting with a native speaker language partner. A list of languages offered is available on
the CLS Program website. Language levels are classified as Beginning, Advanced Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced. The CLS Program provides undergraduate academic credit through Bryn Mawr College. Upon completion of the program, participants also receive a certified American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) score.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of the fellowship is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen field.
