(Please note that our Financial Aid, Grants, and Scholarship programs are exclusively available for resident undergraduate and graduate students.)
Undergraduate students
Department of Geography
Undergraduate student scholarships include:
- The Jeff Gockley Memorial Award
- The Balmat Family Scholarship in Geography
- The G.D. Richardson and Kathy LaSauce Undergraduate Scholarship in Geography, in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
- E. Willard Miller Award in Geography
Other sources of financial support
- Undergraduate students may apply for departmental Academic Enrichment Support for research and travel opportunities.
- Undergraduate students may use GeoGraphics Lab's student research poster printing program for technical support to print posters for presentation at conferences.
- College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Financial aid for undergraduate students
- University Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Mentoring opportunities and funding
- Erickson Discovery Grant (named for emeritus professor of geography/Penn State president Rodney A. Erickson)
- Undergraduate Research Conference Presentation Support
- University Student Engagement Network (SEN) Grant Program
Graduate students
Graduate students in the Department of Geography are funded in a variety of ways. Funding is limited to two years M.S. students, to four years for Ph.D. students, and to five years for five-year Ph.D. students. Graduate assistantships consist of either teaching assistantships (TAs) or research assistantships (RAs). During the fall and spring semesters, the assistantships are 18 weeks in length each semester, with duties beginning one week before classes begin and concluding one week after the last day of class. TAs and RAs work 20 hours per week on average. Read more about graduate assistantships and funding in the Graduate Student Handbook.
Department of Geography
Graduate student grants and scholarships include:
- E. Willard Miller Award in Geography
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Geography
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
- William and Mary Easterling Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
- Geography Alumni Scholars Graduate Student Award
Other sources of financial aid
- Graduate students may apply for departmental Academic Enrichment Support for research and travel opportunities.
- Graduate students may use The Gould Center's student research poster printing program for financial and technical support to print posters for presentation at conferences.
- College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Financial aid for graduate students
- The Graduate School has information about funding resources, including a searchable database