Internal Award
US Citizenship Not Required

To apply, you must be a:

• Be enrolled as full-time undergraduate at Northeastern University.
• Be applying for graduate school this fall for matriculation in fall of 2025.
• Eligible graduate degrees include master’s degrees, PhDs, and JDs.

Eligible awardees are selected on the basis of their completion of the award application procedures. Funding is not guaranteed and is contingent upon availability of funds.

Up to $500 towards eligible graduate school application expenses, along with dedicated advising and mentorship for your graduate school application.

To apply you must participate in a variety of activities related to your graduate school application through our Making a Graduate School Plan workshop on Canvas. The application is for undergraduates who are applying to graduate school (JD, master’s degree, PhDs) fall 2024 for matriculation in the fall of 2025.

To become eligible for this award, you must complete the three phases of Making a Graduate School Plan, at which point you become eligible to complete the application form on the Northeastern Internal Fellowship Portal.

PHASE I: Making the Plan

• Review and complete the following modules, including quizzes, within our Making a Graduate School workshop on Canvas.
  • Introduction
  • What Is Graduate School?
  • Creating a list of Target Graduate Programs
  • The Graduate School Application Process
  • Faculty Advice

PHASE II: Funding Your Education, Finding Your Voice

We ask that all students who apply for our Grad Funding also apply for an external award, if at all possible. To this end, we ask you to complete some relevant workshops related to these processes. You will be referring to Making a Graduate School: Funding Your Graduate School Ambitions.

• For those working in STEM FIELDS: Review and complete the NSF GRFP Info Session (live or video)
  • Complete Getting Started with Your NSF GRFP Application: Personal, Relevant Background, and Future Goals Statement activity.
  • Complete Getting Started with Your NSF GRFP Application: The Graduate Research Statement.
  • Apply for the NSF GRFP or relevant STEM fellowship.
• For those working in NON-STEM FIELDS: Review and complete the recorded information session, Fellowships in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Beyond.

PHASE III:Polishing Your Proposal

• STEM Applicants: Participate in an NSF GRFP or STEM Grad Grant Writing Workshop.
• Non-STEM Applicants: Participate in an Grad School Application Writing Workshop.
• Share any fellowship application materials, as well as draft of graduate application essay(s).

PHASE IV: Complete the Application Form on the Northeastern Internal Fellowship Portal

• We will ask candidates to share information with us about where they have applied, acceptances, any fellowships earned, and mentors. We will also collect application materials to use for future applicants (these will be anonymized).
• You will need to share itemized receipts of expenses incurred. Credit Card statements cannot be accepted.  Receipts must display the monetary amount, the name of the charging institution, the purpose of the charge, and your name.

Current undergraduates who are applicants for our distinguished fellowships — the Churchill, Churchill Kanders, Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, Knight Hennessy, and Schwarzman — are also eligible to have their relevant graduate school expenses reimbursed by virtue of moving through that application process. If you worked with URF and completed the national application process for one of these awards, and are not in the Making a Graduate School Plan course, write to URF@northeastern.edu for access to the URF Scholars Graduate School Fund Award application.