Graduate Awards and Grants

BU offers a variety of Fellowships to incoming PhD students, including the BU Dean’s Fellowship, funded by the Dean of the BU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Martin Luther King, Jr Fellowship. There are also a number of external fellowships available to our students as well, including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Hertz Fellowship, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

BU also offers the Lu Lingzi Scholarship, in honor of Lu Lingzi, a Master’s student in Statistics whose life life was tragically cut short by the Boston Marathon bombing attack. This scholarship supports international students pursuing a Master’s degree at BU.

Together with the BU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, each year one we give out two Outstanding Teaching Fellow awards to recognize the contributions of PhD student teaching fellows.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics provides Departmental Travel Grants to a limited number of graduate students each year to support travel to, and participation in, conferences and workshops. Students from historically excluded groups are strongly encouraged to apply for these funds.

Inclusion Catalyst Grants support creative, collaborative initiatives that generate learning and stimulate efforts to foster inclusive and equitable communities at Boston University. Recipients are awarded grants up to $2,000. All BU students, faculty, and staff are eligible to apply.