Google PhD Fellowship

Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Their research teams impact technology used by people all over the world and they encourage people of a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

External Deadline: May

Internal Deadline: April

Applicants must:

• remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.
• not be supported by a comparable industry award. Government or non-profit organization funding is exempt.
• not be a past awardees from the PhD Fellowship program
• have completed graduate coursework in their PhD by the academic award year when the Fellowship begins.

Google employees, and their spouses, children, and members of their household are not eligible.

You cannot apply outright, you must apply through and be nominated by the university.