Deadline

Applications for 2025 entry will open on January 5th 2025. 

Overview

The Division of Graduate Studies offers funds to support UO faculty and staff in recruiting doctoral students. These funds aim to help graduate departments and programs meet their recruitment goals by providing additional resources to attract admitted students who have not yet accepted their offers and require supplementary funding beyond the program's initial package.

Award Details

Graduate Studies Doctoral Awards are reserved for prospective doctoral students who have been offered admission but have not yet made a decision regarding their offer. These funds should be used to increase one-time funding packages for individual prospective students. 

Fund requests will be considered and awarded in 3 rounds on a rolling basis with the first round opening on January 5th 2025. The following rounds will open on February 15th and March 15th. Multiple applications from individual departments will be considered, but there will be an attempt to maximize the impact of the awards by distributing them across as many programs as possible.  

Programs can request awards between $2,000-$4,000 for individual students in order to strengthen their funding offer. Programs can request up to $4,000 total per admission cycle, with the exception of science based programs eligible to receive Lokey or Promising Scholar Award funding.  

If funding is still available later in the application cycle, the Division will put out a final call for funding requests.  

Award money will be distributed directly into the student’s account at the beginning of their term of admission, should they accept the offer of admission.

Eligibility and Criteria

Awardees must be prospective doctoral students who have been offered admission.

Application

UO employees with "Admissions - Program Staff" access can submit a request via the applicant's Slate application record. Requests will be reviewed within three business days and you will be able to log back into Slate and view the decision on the applicant's Slate record. 

For more information, please contact the Division's director of admissions.