Formerly known as the National Physical Science Consortium, Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education. GFSD is open for application by all U.S. citizens regardless of race or gender. GFSD's goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in STEM fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool. As shown in the chart below and on the Diversity page, the GFSD applicant pool is the most diverse of any national STEM fellowship program. And applicants are talented: the average GPA of 2019 applicants was 3.7 and 19% had a GPA of 4.0 or above. GFSD seeks additional government agencies and corporations to support fellowships for these deserving students, a vital national resource.
The GFSD applicant pool is the most diverse of any national STEM fellowship program.
The average GPA of applicants in the fall of 2018 was 3.8. Of those, 17% had a GPA of 4.0 or above. Data for 2019 are given above. Applicants came from major research universities, liberal arts colleges, HBCU's, state universities, and more.
Because university members do not require GFSD fellows to pay tuition, a GFSD fellowship costs a government agency or corporation typically less than half what it would cost them to fund their own fellowships. The annual allowance per fellow is $20,000, and the GFSD fee is $7,000, for a total annual cost of $27,000. This is roughly one-third the annual cost of an NDSEG fellowship or DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.
Corporations recognize the importance of joining together with academia to increase the overall number of U.S.-citizens with STEM doctorates, especially women and under-represented minorities. GFSD allows corporations access to greater gender and ethnic diversity than any national STEM fellowship program. See here.
The summer internships allow corporations to come to know the future PhD's whom they may wish someday to hire.
GFSD offers its government partners access to the most diverse pool of STEM pre-doctoral students in the nation. They are also among the most talented: the average GPA of the 277 applicants in the fall of 2018 was 3.8. Of those, 17% had a GPA of 4.0. Applicants came from major research universities, liberal arts colleges, HBCU's, state universities, and more. Moreover, GFSD costs an agency or lab much less than the cost of providing their own fellowships..
The GFSD program is unique:
GFSD provides universities with carefully selected, talented, and diverse predoctoral STEM students. They bring a $20,000 allowance provided by government or industry. In addition, for a fee, GFSD's applicant database is available to universities. Some 125 research universities are members.
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