The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships is an office at the University of Michigan that recruits and prepares U-M undergraduates, graduate and professional students and recent alums for major national scholarship and fellowship competitions. We work with students from every school and college at U-M.
ONSF Policies for Applicants details components such as recommendation letters, class rank, and Canvas.
ONSF Canvas Courses provides links for applicants to join ONSF's courses, which have in-depth information about ONSF-sponsored programs.
Scholarships & Fellowships
ONSF applicants come from all 18 U-M schools and colleges, graduate and professional as well as undergraduate. Here you will find a number of opportunities for external funding.
Some are scholarships which provide financial support for degree-based programs. Many of these opportunities are for postgraduate study, such as the Rhodes Scholarship which provides full support for 2-3 years of study at the University of Oxford. A few, however, such as the Goldwater, Astronaut, and Udall Scholarships provide money for junior or senior year.
Other programs are fellowships and provide support for postgraduate experiential programs that do not result in a degree. One example includes U-M’s Wallenberg Fellowship, which provides $25,000 to a graduating senior each year to complete a self-designed fellowship year anywhere in the world.
Finally, you’ll find a number of funded summer programs including opportunities for language study and STEM research. These programs can also provide valuable building blocks for later scholarship and fellowship applications.
