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Applying for the Engineering Coterminal Fellowship

The Engineering Coterminal Fellowship program supports engineering coterms who demonstrated substantial financial need as undergraduates, and whose eligibility for undergraduate aid has been exhausted. Applicants must have been admitted to coterm MS study in one of the 10 programs in Engineering. We welcome applications from students of all backgrounds.

A faculty committee will review applications, and select students for the next cohort. Funding is limited so students with the highest financial need will be prioritized. Awards will provide partial funding for up to 3 quarters (Autumn, Winter, and Spring). These can be combined with partial RA, CA or fellowship support from faculty or departments.

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Deadline: Applications for the 2026–2027 academic year are due February 25, 2026 at 11:59PM

Questions about the fellowship and application process? Please join us for engineering coterminal fellowship office hours on February 5 and February 23 from 12:30-2pm in Huang 138.

Decisions will be released in early April 2026 and will be made with awareness of and in accordance with the Supreme Court's June 2023 ruling on affirmative action. 

Fellowship Details

Applications for the Engineering Coterminal Fellowship are accepted once per year, and students are expected to apply for funding for the following academic year (Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters). Each quarter that a student is funded, the award commits to approximately half of full graduate funding and students can choose one of the following options:

  • Tuition-only fellowship equal to the 10-unit rate ($14,660/quarter in 2025-2026), OR
  • Match a department or faculty award of 10-hour/week CA or RA appointment. In this situation, each source pays half of 20-hour CA/RA salary and 10-unit-tuition.

The tuition-only fellowship can be combined with other funding, such as another partial fellowship (e.g., GEM), a partial department CA/RA position, or graduate loans. Because the Engineering Coterminal Fellowship is only partial funding (it does not cover living expenses), we strongly encourage applicants to pursue these other funding opportunities including more substantial funding which could replace our partial support such as external fellowships (NSF, Ford, etc.) or 20-hour/week RA/CA assistantships. Full details about the Engineering Coterminal Fellowship can be found here.

Eligibility and Requirements:

  • This fellowship is available for students who have accepted admission to coterminal MS study in the School of Engineering. If necessary, students may apply to the coterm program and fellowship at the same time, but must accept admission from an engineering coterminal program by the time the fellowship begins (Autumn 2026).
  • Funding is provided only after students' eligibility for undergraduate financial aid has been exhausted.
  • There is a strong preference for students with high financial need as undergraduates (usually determined by the Financial Aid Office) and a preference for engineering undergrad majors, but the program will consider others.
  • To receive support in any awarded quarter, students must be fully enrolled and making satisfactory progress in their coterminal MS program in engineering.

The Engineering coterm page has general information about coterminal study and funding, with links to our departments and to the university’s coterm policies and procedures.

If you have questions about the Engineering coterminal funding program, you can contact Samantha Schwartz in the Office of Student Affairs. Also, please join us for coterm fellowship office hours on February 5 or February 23 from 12:30-2pm in Huang 138.