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The Presidential Graduate Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT has established a prestigious program of Presidential Fellowships to recruit the most outstanding students worldwide to pursue graduate studies at the Institute. MIT admitted the first class of Presidential Fellowship for September 1999, and for 2007-2008, supported about 150 new graduate students as Presidential Fellows. The program is administered by the MIT Office of the Provost.

The Presidential Graduate Fellowship Award

  • Presidential Fellowships will fund the tuition and living stipend of awardees for their first academic year at MIT.
  • Presidential Fellows are selected by the President and Provost from a pool of candidates nominated by the Deans and Heads of Departments and interdisciplinary programs.
  • Each Presidential Fellow receives a special letter from the President of MIT emphasizing the prestigious nature of the award and identifying the benefactor responsible for the award. This letter follows the offer of admission from the Department.

Named Presidential Fellowships
The following individuals and donors have taken the lead in endowing fellowship funds to support graduate education at MIT, and have Presidential Graduate Fellowships named in their honor or memory:

  • Akamai Technologies, Inc.
  • Homer A. Burnell (1928)
  • DuPont-MIT Alliance (see 2005 C&E News article here)
  • Robert T. Haslam (1911)
  • J. Kenneth Jamieson (1931)
  • William M. Layson (1956)
  • The Lemelson Foundation
  • The Picower Foundation for Norman B. Leventhal (1938)
  • Edward H. Linde (1962)
  • Samuel H. (1969) and Luleta Maslak
  • MIT's School of Engineering
  • MIT's Provost
  • Praecis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Craig and Rose Tedman for Robert M. Rose
  • Walter A. Rosenblith
  • Kenan Sahin (1963)
  • Henry E. Singleton (1940)
  • Alumni/ae & Friends in honor of Charles M. Vest
  • Edward Clark Walsh (1937)