Presidential Fellowships

The Presidential Fellowship Program in the College of Arts and Sciences is aimed at enhancing our competitiveness in recruiting outstanding graduate students. To be eligible, a nominee must be a new applicant to a PhD program in the College of Arts and Sciences with at least one of the following:

  • A cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.4 or higher

  • Or a sum of verbal and quantitative GRE scores equal to 313 or higher (i.e. 1270 or higher on the old GRE exam) and an analytical score of 4.5 or higher

  • OR a score on the relevant GRE Subject Test in the 75th percentile or higher

Please note that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Educational Testing Service, the CAS Fellowship Committee will only consider GRE General Test scores taken on or after October 2002.

The nominee must be offered a teaching/research/graduate assistantship by the nominating department. Each Fellow will receive a fellowship of $6,000 on top of the assistantship stipend and a full tuition scholarship.  The Fellowship is renewable for three additional years provided the Fellow maintains satisfactory academic progress.

Dean’s Scholarships

In addition, the College of Arts and Sciences will offer 25 Dean's Scholarships to outstanding graduate students who meet the criteria above.  Dean's Scholarships carry a stipend of $4000 and, as with the Presidential Fellowships, will be renewable for up to three additional years and will require that the nominee be offered a teaching/graduate/research fellowship by the department.

Nomination Procedure

Each department is asked to rank its nominees in order of priority. Preference will be given to domestic applicants. Each nomination should include a completed nomination form and required supporting materials. Early nominations must be submitted by January 19, 2012. The general submission deadline is February 1, 2012. Later applications will be considered if any fellowships remain to be allocated. One complete packet should be electronically submitted to bmk4@buffalo.edu.  Questions can be directed to Brant Kresovich at bmk4@buffalo.edu.

2012-2013 Fellowship Form (revision in progress)

2011-2012 Fellowship Form

1   Students with an MA or MS from another institution are eligible for Presidential awards. Depending on how many credit hours are applied to their Ph.D. degrees, they may end up with fewer than four years of funding. Students with MA degrees from UB who apply for a Ph.D. program in the same field are not eligible for Presidential awards.