Distinguished Graduate Fellowships are created through a collaborative funding effort. Funding from a donor, the Graduate School, and the academic college supports the awards. This prestigious fellowship program is available to incoming students and provides payment of tuition, a stipend, and a health insurance subsidy for one year.

Selection of Distinguished Graduate Fellows is determined within each college and with concurrence of the Dean of the Graduate School. Interested prospective students should contact their graduate programs for details on the college's awarding deadline, requirements, and procedures.

Currently, Penn State has forty-one named Distinguished Graduate Fellowships:

College of Agricultural Sciences

• Roger and Barbara Claypoole Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of Agricultural Sciences

College of Earth & Mineral Sciences

• E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Geography
• Dr. Dennis W. and Dr. Joan S. Thomson Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Meteorology

College of Education

• Pauline M. Turner Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of Education

College of Health & Human Development

• Joseph and Jean Britton Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of Health and Human Development
• Marjorie M. Knoll Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of Health and Human Development

College of the Liberal Arts

• Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. Lavigne Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of the Liberal Arts in the Field of Political Science
• Richard F. and Barbara Knoebel Yoder Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of the Liberal Arts in the Field of Psychology
• McCourtney Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in English
• Tracy Winfree McCourtney and Ted H. McCourtney Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in English
• Ted H. and Tracy Winfree McCourtney Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in American History

College of Medicine

• Pritchard Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the College of Medicine

Eberly College of Science

• William Taylor Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Harold and Nancy O'Connor Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• Beatrice and Alan Schriesheim Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• Paul and Harriet Campbell Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• Paul M. Doty Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• Stephen B. Brumbach Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Statistics
• Bert Elsbach Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in Physics (2)
• Verne M. Willaman Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in Science (16)
• Lewis A. and Opal D. Gugliemelli Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Eberly College of Science
• Stephen B. Brumbach Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• Paul Berg and Daniel J. Larson Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Eberly College of Science
• Richard A. Gottscho Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Eberly College of Science

Graduate School Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs

• Eva J. Pell Distinguished Graduate Fellowship

For more information, please contact the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards Administration.