Scholarships & Funding

Community Engagement Fellowship Program 

Application Deadline: March 10

Launched in fall 2022, the Dietrich Community Engagement Fellowship is a unique program designed to equip students with the leadership skills needed for social change and to ignite a passion for lifelong service. The program provides students with academic training and experiential learning opportunities that synergize to cumulatively build toward developing the capacity for community-based leadership.

Apply for the Community Engagement Fellowship Program. 

Small Undergraduate Research Grants (SURG)

The SURG program offers grants for materials and supplies to undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon for research in any field of study. For summer 2025 and fall 2025 grants, the student proposal deadline is March 19 with faculty letter of recommendation due March 24. More information can be found on the SURG website.

Undergraduate Innovation Scholars Program

Application Deadline: April 5

The Innovation Scholars program is a two-year program that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship while seeking to increase the number of successful startup companies initiated by or involving CMU's undergraduate students. Undergraduate students in their junior year are eligible to apply.

Find out more about the program.

Register for an Information Session:

Wed, March 5 - 12:30 PM ET (Virtual)
Register for the March 5 session

Wed, March 19 - 1230 PM ET (Virtual)
Register for the March 19 session

Dietrich College Internship Opportunity Grants

Application Deadline: Rolling

Dietrich College encourages its undergraduate students to find and undertake professionally relevant and meaningful internship opportunities. We understand that many of these opportunities are unpaid or, at best, provide minimal compensation. Yet it is often these very positions that provide students with the most meaningful work experiences in helping them define and move forward toward their career goals.

The Dietrich College Internship Opportunity Grant Program makes it more possible for our undergraduate students to take advantage of less remunerative but worthwhile off-campus internship opportunities.

Find out more about the Dietrich College Internship Opportunity Grant Program

The Dietrich College Study/Travel Abroad Grant Program

Application Deadline: Rolling

Dietrich College has established its Study/Travel Abroad Grant Program to encourage its undergraduate students to consider pursuing meaningful opportunities abroad by making it more financially possible to take advantage of these experiences.  The program provides support for both traditional study abroad programs, and for non-study abroad experiences such as service learning opportunities, internships, research and conference travel.

Grants are available for both individual students and groups of students who meet the program’s eligibility requirements.

Learn more about the Dietrich College Study/Travel Abroad Grant Program and apply