Various fellowships, scholarships, and grants are available to provide financial support to graduate students throughout their graduate education. The following funding opportunities are offered by the Graduate School.
The Graduate School's RSCAD Grant provides K-State master's and doctoral students with financial support for direct expenses of their research, scholarly, and creative work. Graduate students may receive this grant once during their graduate career at K-State.
Pursuing a graduate degree is demanding, raising children is expensive, but graduate students should not have to put their personal lives on hold while earning their degree. This scholarship serves to relieve some of the financial burden of child care expenses, facilitating degree progress of graduate students who are raising families.
The Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship provides an award of $19,000 to a PhD candidate to recognize exceptional achievement in research and helps launch the student into their professional career. Additionally, up to two Sarachek Scientific Travel Awards of $1,500 each may be presented annually.
Donoghue Scholarships enhance the maximum assistantship funding package a graduate program can offer to top candidates. Master's students are awarded a $3,000 scholarship and doctoral students are awarded a $5,000 scholarship for one academic year. The scholarship may be renewed for a second year. Admitted graduate students are nominated for this scholarship by their graduate program.
The Taiwan Study Abroad Scholarship allows graduate and undergraduate students pursuing a concurrent bachelor's/master's degree to experience Taiwanese culture while studying or traveling to Taiwan. Scholarships will support study abroad for at least one semester, a faculty-led study abroad trip with cultural experiences, or scholarly research presentation at an international professional meeting in Taiwan or an invited exhibition.