The NVIDIA International Graduate Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for 2025/2026. This is the twenty-fourth year that NVIDIA has asked PhD students to submit their research proposals for review. Recipients are chosen based on their academic achievements, professor nominations, and research areas.
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program awards up to $60,000 to graduate students investigating subjects that will lead to significant improvements in accelerated computing and related applications.
NVIDIA particularly welcomes applications from students that are pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, robotics, self-driving cars, and related subjects.
Eligibility Requirements
- Students must have done their first year of PhD study (at the time of application).
- Students must have an academic background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, System Architecture, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Students have to carry out active research for their PhD thesis.
- Scholars must be enrolled as full-time committed PhD students during the 2025-2026 academic year (9 months) of the funding, which means they shouldn’t plans to graduate before May/June of 2026.
- Students must be able to complete a physical summer internship at one of NVIDIA’s research offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Israel, or Taiwan before beginning their Scholarship year.
- Students may not be the immediate family of a current NVIDIA employee.
Note: The award must be administered through the student’s university; payment will be sent to the university rather than directly to the student.
Application Procedure and How To Apply
Graduate scholarship applications must include the following:
- SIGN UP HERE
- Research summary/thesis proposal – up to two pages, plus bibliography (bibliography does not count toward proposal’s two-page maximum).
- Resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) including contact information.
- Professor nomination letters (2 letters minimum (one from the thesis adviser), up to 3 letters maximum — it is acceptable to have nomination letters from non-professors as long as one is from your thesis advisor/professor.
- Confirming availability for an in-person summer internship.
Application Deadline
Application Deadline: September 7th, 2024 AND September 7th, 2025 at 3pm Pacific time