Graduate Recruitment Funding Programs

Bunton-Waller Graduate Awards Program - Bunton-Waller Graduate Awards are generally assistantships granted to incoming students as part of the University's comprehensive educational opportunity program. The graduate admission application serves as the Bunton-Waller Graduate Awards application. Students must be nominated by their program in the Graduate Recruitment Administrative Tracking system within GRADS. The Bunton-Waller Graduate Awards Program competition is open to incoming graduate degree candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applications will be evaluated on scholarly promise and upon receiving a commitment from the student's graduate major program to support the student.  For current guidelines for this program, please contact Ashely Blumenthal, [email protected].

The Robert W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship was created to assist in the recruitment of outstanding students considering enrolling at Penn State. The funds will provide supplementation awards to incoming students who have been given assistantships, departmental fellowships or who are recipients of external awards. Award offers are typically one year; however, colleges may extend two-year offers to outstanding students. Students who have been awarded University Graduate Fellowships (UGF) are NOT eligible. For current guidelines for this program, please contact Ashely Blumenthal, [email protected].