Graduate Programs

NACME manages the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Graduate Scholarship Programs: the Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) Program and the American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP).

The MPHD scholarship program has two components. The Ph.D. Component offers substantial scholarship support to underrepresented minority students who are beginning their doctoral work in engineering, natural science and mathematics. Since its establishment in 1995, the program has provided direct support to over 800 minority Ph.D. students in these fields. The smaller Feeder Component offers underrepresented minority B.S. or M.S. students access to select faculty and departments that have demonstrated success in sending their students on to doctoral programs.

The AIGP allows eligible American Indian master's and doctoral candidates at selected universities to apply for scholarships designed to facilitate graduate study in mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering through approved faculty and departments.