Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- 1 Graduate Degrees and Institutional Financial Aid -- Types of Graduate Degrees -- Master's Degrees -- Doctoral Degrees -- Combined Degree Programs -- Certificates -- Degree Program Enrollment, Time to Degree, Career Status, Cost -- Institutional Financial Aid -- Types of University Financial Aid -- External Fellowships and Grants -- Resources -- 2 External Funding -- Questions to Ask When Considering a Fellowship Application -- Where Should You Look to Find Information About Fellowships and Grants? -- Types of External Funding -- Individual Training Fellowships -- Study, Teaching, or Research-Abroad Fellowships -- Small Research Grants -- Dissertation Fellowships -- Postdoctoral Fellowships -- Grant and Fellowship Application Tips -- Proposal Writing Advice -- How to Get Good References -- Resources -- 3 Training Fellowships -- General Information -- General Application Advice -- Specific Fellowship Opportunities -- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships and Selected Professions Fellowships -- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships -- Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Fellowships -- Hertz Foundation Applied Science Fellowships -- Hispanic Scholarship Fund General College Scholarships -- Jacob K. Javits Fellowships for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences -- NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowships -- National Defense Science Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships -- National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences -- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) -- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) Science Graduate Fellowships (SCGF) -- U.S. Department of State Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Star Graduate Fellowships in Environmental Studies -- 4 Study, Research, and Teaching Abroad -- General Information -- Application Advice -- Specific Fellowship Opportunities -- British Marshall Scholarships -- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) -- Fulbright (IIE) Grants for Graduate Study, Graduate Research, English Teaching Worldwide -- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad -- Institute of Turkish Studies Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students in Social Sciences or Humanities -- National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowships for International Language and Research -- Organization of American States (OAS) Graduate Academic Scholarships -- Rhodes Scholarships for Study at Oxford University -- Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships -- Other Study-Abroad Fellowship Programs and Goals -- 5 Research Grants -- General Information -- Application Advice -- Specific Grant Opportunities -- American Bar Association Janet D. Steiger Fellowships -- American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Research Grants -- American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research, Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology -- Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Grants -- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grants -- Explorers Club Exploration Fund Grants -- Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grants -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Training Fellowships for Medical, Dental, Veterinary Students -- Sigma Xi Grants- in-Aid of Research.

White House and Presidential Libraries Travel and Research Grants -- 6 Dissertation Fellowships and Grants -- General Information -- Application Advice -- Specific Grant Opportunities -- American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowships -- American Education Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowships in Education Research -- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowships -- Andrew Mellon Dissertation Completion -- East European Studies -- Henry Luce American Art -- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships -- Foundation for Jewish Culture Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Fund for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies -- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Research in the Areas of Violence, Aggression, and Dominance -- Kress Foundation History of Art Dissertation Research Travel Fellowships -- National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants -- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowships (IDRF) -- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowships for Improvement of Education -- U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program -- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants for Anthropology -- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Year Fellowships in Ethical and Religious Values -- Other Dissertation Fellowships and Goals -- 7 Postdoctoral Opportunities -- General Information -- General Application Advice -- The Curriculum Vitae -- Recommendations -- Other Written Materials -- Evaluating Opportunities -- The Bottom Line -- Specific Postdoctoral Opportunities -- Specific Postdoctoral Opportunities in Science and Engineering -- National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Programs.

Arctic Research Opportunities -- Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF) -- International Research Fellowship Program -- Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF) -- Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships -- Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants (MPRF) -- NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science Using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS) -- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) -- Postdoctoral Fellowships Polar Regions Research -- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships (F32) -- Medical Informatics Research Training -- Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) -- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Career Development Grants -- Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minority Individuals in Postdoctoral Training -- Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers -- AAAS Science and Engineering Fellowship Program -- Cancer Research Award-Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation -- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships -- Irvington Institute Fellowship Program -- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Fellowship -- NRC Research Associateship Program -- Specific Postdoctoral Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program -- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities -- Individual Advanced Research Opportunities for U.S. Scholars in Central and Eastern Europe -- National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship -- Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowships -- Postdoctoral Fellowships and Advanced Research Grants-Social Science Research Council -- ACLS Fellowships -- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities.

American Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships-American Association of University Women -- National Humanities Center -- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries-Council on Library and Information Resources -- Kluge Fellowships-Library of Congress.