Some provisions exist under which WPI will pay the tuition for a student's graduate program, but provide no support beyond tuition. WPI has been awarded several of these grants which are available to qualified graduate students. GEM Fellowships WPI is proud to be a GEM qualified university. GEM fellowships are awarded to minorities interested in studying science and engineering at the graduate level. Fellowships Fellowship assistance for graduate students is available in a number of areas.
Some departments offer fellowships provided by corporate gifts or philanthropic agencies.
The college also directly supports graduate research programs through fellowship awards. In addition to the following fellowships, interested students should contact the graduate coordinator in their department for additional sources of funding. Funding includes teaching and research assistantships, corporate and federal sponsored programs and graduate assistantships available to first-year and returning graduate students. Fellowship awards are administered through the Office of the Associate Provost. The Robert H. Goddard Fellowships are awarded to full-time graduate students on a competitive basis.