Graduate Fellowships

Stanford Engineering's renowned faculty, research facilities, and location in the heart of the Silicon Valley attract large numbers of the world's top graduate students. Our programs are recognized as among the best in the world, and our graduates among the most accomplished. Stanford Engineering's multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial opportunities address the complexity of today's engineering challenges and prepare graduates to be leaders in research, academia, and industry.

Keeping pace with rising tuition costs and the ever-increasing cost of living in the Bay Area requires a commitment to grow fellowship resources to support these outstanding students—many of whom must weigh competitive offers from other universities against their offer of admission to Stanford. While many students are supported by research contracts in later years of graduate study, support for the first year is critical.

"With flexibility, students can take more time to explore options." says Dean Jim Plummer. "This offers a tremendous matchmaking possibility to get the right students together with the right researchers."

To maintain this commitment to graduate education—and to the quality of the graduate student body—we must be able to offer competitive fellowship support to our students. This is a critical and ongoing need.

Our goal is to have the resources for every admitted student who wishes to study at Stanford to be able to do so. In some cases, this means providing full tuition and stipend support. In other cases, it means supplementing a student's external funding. In all cases, it means giving Stanford Engineering the ability to match the support offered by peer institutions and enabling a promising student to accept an offer of admission from Stanford.

A $1 million endowment provides annual income equal to a graduate student's annual tuition costs. Currently the school will match gifts of $500,000 to endow a full fellowship. Fellowship gifts of $250,000 create endowments that provide partial annual support for an engineering graduate student.

To find out more, please contact a member of the development team.