Undergraduate Study Awards

Listed below are some of the undergraduate study awards available to MSU students. Scholarships and fellowships marked with an asterisk (*) require an institutional endorsement, meaning applications to these awards must be submitted through the Distinguished Student Awards Office.

If you intend to apply to one of the these awards, please fill out an Intent to Apply Form. For any questions not answered in the Scholarships and Fellowships FAQ, or to schedule an appointment, please contact the DSAO through our email studentawards@msu.edu.

All Fields

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
Oct. 5 & Mar. 7	All	Enables American students to gain proficiency in diverse languages and cultures, skills that are critically important to their academic and career development.	Undergraduate students	U.S. citizens or permanent residents	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
December 29	Humanities, Social Sciences	Funds study abroad by U.S. undergraduate students in world regions critical to U.S. interests. his scholarship requires a language component.	Undergraduate students	U.S. citizen or permanent resident, 3.3+ GPA,	Yes

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
September 28 (11:59 PM ET)	Foreign Service	Funding for a 2-year graduate program relevant to the foreign service	Seniors/ Recent Graduates	U.S. citizen, 3.2+ GPA	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
November 16 (Nov. 1 for MSU feedback)	Foreign Language	Study Abroad/ Summer language study	Undergraduates	U.S. citizen	No

Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
STEM	Funding for 2 years of undergraduate study, and a paid summer internship	Sophomores	U.S. citizen, 3.3+ GPA	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
Late January	Fields relevant to environmental science	Funding for 2 years of undergraduate study and paid summer internship	Sophomores and Juniors (must have two years of undergraduate study remaining)	U.S. citizen, 3.0+ GPA	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
September 17	Disciplines relevant to foreign affairs and public policy	Funding for senior year and first year of graduate study	Seniors and first year graduate students	U.S. citizen, 3.2+ GPA	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
September 21	Studies relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, management, and science policy.	Funding for first and second years graduate study	Seniors	U.S. citizen	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
January 19	Environmental studies or Native American leaders	Funding for 1-2 years of undergraduate study	Sophomores and Juniors	U.S. citizen or permanent resident, 3.0+ GPA	Yes

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
Early November	International Development or Foreign Service	Funding for 2 years of graduate study	Seniors or recent graduates	U.S. citizen, 3.2+ GPA	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
January 17	STEM	Provides up to four years of financial support for students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex problems in science and engineering.	Senior undergraduates, first-year graduate students, or those matriculating into graduate school for fall 2024	U.S. citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
November 1	STEM	Funding for 1-2 years of undergraduate study	Sophomores and Juniors	U.S. citizen or permanent resident, 3.7+ GPA	Yes

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
December 1	STEM	Funding for up to five years of undergraduate study, paid summer internship, and other benefits	Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors	U.S. citizen, 3.0+ GPA, age 18+	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
Early April	Biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related fields	Competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research.	Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time undergraduate student at an accredited four-year college or university	U.S. citizen, 3.3+ GPA, demonstrate financial need	No

Campus Deadline	Disciplines	Purpose	Open To	Eligibility	Endorsement Required
March 27	Committed to a career in Public Service	Financial Aid, Summer Funding, Travel Stipend	Current Sophomores	U.S. citizen or permanent resident	No

Undergraduate Study Awards

All Fields

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Boren Scholarship

Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship

Critical Language Scholarship

Department of Homeland Security Scholarship

Hollings Scholarship

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program

Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program

Udall Scholarship

USAID Donald M. Payne Fellowship

STEM

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Goldwater Scholarship

Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transforming (SMART) Defense Scholarship

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program

Voyager Scholarship for Public Service