Awards & Fellowships

• The deadline for nominations from the department is generally in early Spring.
• Interested students should contact their departments in the Fall to find out more information about the submission process.
• Departments can access the most updated deadlines our InfoReady Award Portal.

• Students receiving this fellowship must meet the standards established by the Graduate School. These include a cumulative LSU Graduate GPA 3.5 or greater.
• At the time of application, student must have already passed a Graduate School milestone exam (general defense, comprehensive exam, or specialty exam) and, if applicable, completion of an approved prospectus in your Department.
• The required milestone exam form must be submitted to the Graduate School prior to the student starting the Fellowship.

• Stipend = $25,000. The award is valid for the contract period or until student graduates, whichever is shorter.
• The recipient must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in a degree program, and must make satisfactory progress to continue in the award.
• Students must maintain full-time (9 hours in Fall and Spring) enrollment in dissertation credits or a combination of dissertation hours and other coursework associated with the Practicum/Internship and /or their chosen Minor to receive the award.
• Recipients are exempt from resident tuition, associated fees, and non-resident fee (if applicable) depending on appointment dates. Students must be full time enrolled and on the fellowship on or before the last day to add courses to receive these exemptions.
• The student may not hold any other graduate fellowship or award. Other campus employment is prohibited.
• Teaching is not allowed while on this fellowship.
• Must devote full time to the completion of their degree.
• Any exception to these requirements must be approved by the Office of the Dean of the LSU Graduate School or higher campus authority.

• The deadline for nomination from the students is generally in early Spring. 
• The Graduate School will deploy a messaging and reply process within Slate by which all applicants to all degree programs will be informed about the Graduate Future Scholars opportunity.

Required

Students receiving this fellowship must meet the standards established by the Graduate School.

These include:

• A cumulative LSU Graduate GPA 3.0 or greater
• Departmentally provided graduate assistantship
• Domestic or permanent residency 

Preferred

• STEM discipline
• Linkage to Louisiana
• Doctoral student  

• Student must have a Graduate Assistantship
• Stipend: Scholars receive $14,000 per year in addition to the graduate assistantship financial offer

• Proposals are usually due to the National Science Foundation in mid-October; however, the Graduate School urges interested students to visit the NSF GRFP website for up-to-date information about submission deadlines.
• The Graduate School also encourages interested students to visit the LSU Discover website for up-to-date information about eligibility, deadlines, and LSU support.

• Students receiving this fellowship must meet the standards established by the Graduate School. These include a cumulative LSU Graduate GPA 3.5 or greater.
• At the time of application, student must have already passed a Graduate School milestone exam (general defense, comprehensive exam, or specialty exam) and, if applicable, completion of an approved prospectus in your Department.
• The required milestone exam form must be submitted to the Graduate School prior to the student starting the Fellowship.

A research proposal must be submitted directly to the National Science Foundation (via Research.gov).

The Graduate School encourages interested students to visit the LSU Discover website for information about eligibility and a listing of LSU-sponsored workshops to help you write a competitive proposal.

• The deadline for nominations from the department to be received by the Graduate School is generally in early Spring.
• Departments can access the most updated deadlines our InfoReady Award Portal.
• All nomination materials must be submitted via our InfoReady Award Portal.

Students must meet the following eligibility standards established by the Graduate School:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Must have an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0. [This GPA is calculated based on the GPA earned at ALL undergraduate institutions that the nominee has attended.]
• Strong letters of recommendation from persons knowledgeable of the nominee’s academic achievements.
• Students must be an entering doctoral student at the time of the award.

Note: LSU Masters students who are transitioning to PhD/Doctoral programs in the same academic department are NOT eligible.

Departments must submit candidates for consideration. Departments with up to 50 Ph.D. students can submit two (2) nominations; those with 51-100 Ph.D. students can submit three (3) nominations, and those with more than 100 Ph.D. students can submit four (4) nominations.

• The deadline for nominations from the department is generally in early Spring.
• Interested students should contact their departments in the Fall to find out more information about the submission process.
• Departments can access the most updated deadlines in our InfoReady Award Portal.  

For eligibility information, please refer to the SREB Fellowship website.

Fellows are appointed on a fiscal-year basis and must enroll as a full-time student for Summer as well as for Fall and Spring semesters. While a tuition exemption is provided for both resident tuition and non-resident fees, students are responsible for paying any other applicable University fees.

SREB Fellowships can be supplemented by the department. The Fellowships can be continued for up to three consecutive years if funding is available; departments should plan to continue Fellowships from other funding sources for students who take longer than three years to complete their terminal degree.

Stipends: 

• Each student (up to two (2) fellowships awarded) will receive a stipend of $10,000 per year from the Louisiana Board of Regents. This stipend amount is comparable to other fellowship stipends offered at LSU and by our peer institutions and is necessary to remain competitive with other universities.

Additional Support Cost:

• The LSU Graduate School will provide a $15,000 per year enhancement to each of the two fellowships as institutional match . This raises the actual stipend level to $25,000 per year. This stipend level ($25,000) matches the general range of stipends provided by our peer institutions in the U.S.

Other Educational Cost:

• Tuition exemptions will be provided as institutional match at the rate of $10,930 per year per student.

• The student’s statement of interest (available as part of the applicant’s graduate application in Slate)
• Letter of recommendation from a faculty member from the applicant’s undergraduate institution who has first-hand knowledge of the student’s potential that should be pulled from the student’s graduate application (available as part of the applicant’s graduate application in Slate).
• Nomination letter from the Chair of Department to which the student is applying explaining the student’s academic and non-academic strengths and how this student will contribute to the program.