Funding Available for Doctoral Study

• African-American Professors Program:  A joint effort between USC, the Kellogg Foundation, and the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, this program offers graduate assistantships of $15,000-$18,000 per year for African-American students interested in becoming professors.  Visit the website at http://www.ed.sc.edu/aapp/index.html 
  
• Graduate Incentive Scholarships:  Offered by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, these scholarships of up to $15,000 a year are available to students who belong to minority groups.  For more information, visit the site: http://www.che400.state.sc.us/web/A&E/ACCESS/GIS%20Info%20center.htm
  
• SREB Doctoral Scholar and Dissertation-Year Fellowship Awards:  These awards supply eligible minority students with tuition waivers, annual stipends of $12,000, and funds for books, supplies, and travel.  Visit http://www.sreb.org/programs/dsp/dspindex.asp
  
• Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in Geriatric Social Work:  Sponsored by the Gerontological Society of America, this program provides $20,000 per year to students who seek to improve the well-being of older persons, their families, and caregivers through their dissertation research.   Visit http://www.geron.org/Hartford/docfellows.htm#about
  
• CSWE Minority Fellowship Program:  This program supports minority students who are learning to provide leadership in mental health research and in the delivery of mental health services by supplying monthly stipends and some tuition assistance.  For more information, go to http://www.cswe.org/programs/MFP/mfpstart2-20-01.htm
  
• Jane B. Aron and Eileen Blackey Doctoral Fellowships:  Funded by NASW, these grants of $4000 are awarded to doctoral candidates whose dissertations focus on health care and welfare policy and practice.  See http://www.naswfoundation.org/national.html
  
• Influencing State Policy Dissertation Award:  This $2000 cash award is granted to a student whose dissertation focuses on social policy research at the state level.  For more information, see http://www.statepolicy.org/what's_new/phd-flier.htm
  
• International Education Financial Aid:  This search engine contains information about hundreds of fellowships and grants available to international students wishing to study abroad.  Visit http://www.iefa.org/
  

For information on the Ph.D. Program in Social Work please contact:

Dr. Naomi Farber
Director of Doctoral Studies
College of Social Work
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

phone (803) 777-8816
fax (803) 777-3498
e-mail: naomif@gwm.sc.edu