Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF)

Application Deadline: Monday, May 1, 2023

The Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF) is designed to enable promising students who do not fare well in conventional competition for graduate fellowships.

Those encouraged to apply include:
- first generation college graduates;
- students who attended marginally adequate or inadequate schools;
- students who have to work excessively while attending school;
- or those whose social and economic background made acquiring education an unreasonably difficult enterprise.

School/department deadline: All nominations must be submitted by the school/department. Students must contact their school/department for their internal deadline. We will not accept any self-nominations.

Eligibility Criteria:

Incoming or currently enrolled students in graduate study at Indiana University, Bloomington.
U.S. citizen or permanent resident. International students are not eligible.
Nominee must be a first-generation college student (neither parent achieved a Baccalaureate Degree) or must demonstrate acute financial need.

The EOF is a one-year award which includes

1. $2,500 stipend

2. Fee reduction. Out-of-state fellowship recipients are eligible to pay tuition at the resident rate up to 24 credit hours or 12 hours per semester. In-state recipients receive the stipend only.

Department will submit the following documents:

EOF nomination form
FAFSA for most recent academic year. Please redact critical data including social security number and other sensitive data
For incoming students, please include the complete graduate application
For current students, please include an unofficial copy of transcripts

EOF support is limited to two years; however, renewal is not automatic. Nominees must be nominated by their graduate department each year for consideration.

Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF)

Eligibility

Award and Benefits

Departmental Nomination

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