PhD Fellowships

The Fellowship: The Columbia Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT PhD Fellowship support includes full tuition and fees, and a stipend of $30,000 for the full academic year. The Fellowship is a two-year Fellowship and only open to U.S. citizen or permanent residents, who are applying to the doctoral degree in one of IGERT participating departments. Each Fellowship recipient also receives $1,000 per year for conference travel as well as $500 per year for publication in leading journals. Women and underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Applicants: If you are currently a graduate student at Columbia interested in or already working in the field of optics and quantum electronics, the Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT faculty encourages you to contact any of us for more information. Aside from our FAQ page, you may also email Svitlana Samoilina the IGERT Coordinator or Prof. Irving P. Herman the IGERT Director for more information.

(This IGERT is no longer accepting new applicants, so the guidance given in this paragraph is no longer active.) If you are a prospective graduate student interested in optics and quantum electronics who is applying for admission to any department with the Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT faculty, we recommend that you state your interest in the IGERT program in your application. In your on-line admissions application, be sure to check the box indicating your interest in the Optics IGERT program to ensure your application will be directed for our evaluation. Support is available for selected new, incoming graduate students.

Other fellowship and scholarship opportunities for Optics and Photonics students

• SPIE Scholarships and Grants
• OSA Scholarships and Grants
• IEEE Photonics Society Fellowship (formerly LEOS)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships
• Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program
• Hertz Foundation Awards
• AT&T Labs Fellowship Program
• AfterCollege Engineering Student Scholarship
• National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships (primarily for minorities and women)
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation (for women)
• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships (for minorities)
• GEM Fellowship Program (for minorities)
• Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellowship (Postdoc)
• National Research Council of the National Academies (grad, postdoc)