2025-2026 UF Graduate Student Funding Opportunities

 

FUNDING UPDATES

Date:

October 15, 2024

To:

Graduate Associate Deans, School Directors, Department Chairs, Coordinators, and Staff

From:

Murielle Gammons, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Graduate Student Support & Engagement (OGSSE)
The Graduate School
University of Florida

RE:

2025-2026 UF Graduate Student Opportunities

Please share with applicable prospective graduate students these details about 2025-2026 funding opportunities — available through our Office of Graduate Student Support & Engagement (OGSSE) — crafted to help first-generation and low socioeconomic status graduate students.

McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

Application deadline: January 15, 2025
Click here for details and application

OGSSE partners with the Florida Education Foundation (FEF) to provide this fellowship, open only to Ph.D. students. It is funded by FEF, the UF Graduate School, and participating UF departments to provide each fellow with a stipend, tuition wavier, and health insurances for up to five years. Applicants must be admitted to a UF Ph.D. program by March 1 to be considered.

FAMU Feeder Fellowship

Application deadline: March 1, 2025
Click here for details and application

This fellowship enables Florida A&M University (FAMU) students to pursue graduate degrees unavailable at their alma mater. Among 40-plus other universities, UF offers five fellowships yearly to qualified FAMU Feeder students admitted to Ph.D. or on-campus master’s degree programs. Fellows receive a $13,000 stipend, in-state tuition, fee waiver, and health insurance for up to five years (Ph.D.) or three years (terminal Master of Fine Arts). Master’s degree students receive a $7,000 scholarship for fall and spring ($3,500 each semester).

McNair Doctoral Program

Application deadline: March 1, 2025
Click here for details and application

This program supports students who completed the McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program as undergraduates. UF provides limited research assistantships for McNair Scholars entering a UF Ph.D. program. This assistantship provides a stipend, in-state tuition, fees, and health insurance for up to four years (Ph.D.) or three years (terminal Master of Fine Arts).

Supplemental Retention Scholarship

Spring 2025 application dates: October 1 to November 1, 2024
Summer 2025 application dates: February 17 to March 17, 2025
Click here for details and application

This scholarship is for UF doctoral students three or fewer semesters away from graduation, but no longer eligible to receive a fellowship, assistantship, or other funding from their department or college. It provides in-state tuition (three credit hours for fall and spring, two credit hours for summer) plus structured retention help from OGSSE.

UF/SFC Faculty Development Project

Application dates: April 28 to June 5, 2025
Click here for details and application

Through this project, UF and local Santa Fe College (SFC) partner to provide valuable teaching experience to UF doctoral students while broaden representation among SFC faculty. Participating students teach two SFC courses a year and help in recruiting and retaining students. They receive a nine-month $19,200 stipend, in-state tuition, fees, and health insurance for fall and spring semesters.

BRIDGE (Building Retention in Doctoral Graduate Education)

Application deadline:  May 1, 2025
Online sessions:  June 30 to August 1, 2025
In-person sessions:  August 4 to August 15, 2025
Click here for details and application release date

The newest kid on the OGSSE block, this summer program aims to acclimate new UF Ph.D. students to doctoral studies here through a combo of virtual and in-person programming, academic enrichment, and peer networking. Participants start Summer B 2025 with online instruction (including writing and statistics) via the BRIDGE Canvas Course, then continue with in-person sessions for face-to-face engagement and support.

Questions?

Have questions about these opportunities? Email our Office of Graduate Support & Engagement (OGSSE) at grad-support@ufl.edu.

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