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Graduate Application Fee Waiver Program

The Office of Graduate Education and the Office of Admission and Enrollment at The University of Texas at Dallas are pleased to offer a Graduate Application Fee Waiver Program to qualified, past or current participants in a program from the list below. To qualify, students must be applying for a PhD or master’s degree at UT Dallas. Non-degree applicants are not eligible for fee waivers. Only U.S. citizens, or permanent residents, are eligible to request a fee waiver. 

Fee waivers are available to qualified, past or current participants of the following programs:

  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
  • American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession Mentoring Program (CSMGEP: Mentoring Program)
  • American Economic Association Summer Training Program (AEASP)
  • American Geophysical Union Bridge Program (AGU Bridge)
  • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
  • American Political Science Association Minority Student Recruitment Program (APSA-MSRP)
  • American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics Conference Experience for Undergraduates (APS DNP CEU)
  • AmeriCorps
  • Association Computing Machinery Women Council (ACM-W)
  • Black in AI
  • Black Doctoral Network (BDN)
  • Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD)
  • Cientifico Latino Graduate School Mentorship Program
  • Center for Bright Beams Summer Program (CBB)
  • CCMR NSF PREM
  • CLASSE Summer Research for Community College Students (SRCCS)
  • Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
  • Ecological Society of America Diversity Forum
  • EDGE Program: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
  • FLIP (Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate) Alliance
  • Gates Millennium Scholars
  • National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM)
  • The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS Annual Conference)
  • Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
  • Teach for America
  • The Leadership Alliance
  • Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Undergraduates (LSAMP)
  • McNair Scholars
  • Mentoring, Educating, Networking, and Thematic Opportunities for Research in Engineering & Sciences (MENTORES)
  • Microbial Friends and Foes REU
  • Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
  • Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS)
  • Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS) / Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE)
  • National Astronomy Consortium (NAC)
  • National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH)
  • National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCCHE)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)
  • National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP)
  • NIH-MBRS
  • NIH-NIGMS
  • Peace Corps
  • Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
  • Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
  • Women and Mathematics Program (WAM)
  • The Women+ of Color Project

If you are a member of one of the groups listed here, please provide documentation of your participation/affiliation and dates of participation on your fee waiver request.