Scholarships for High School Girls Pursuing Engineering

Engineering is one of the STEM disciplines with the strongest scholarship pipeline for women - both because of the persistent gender gap and because employers have strong financial incentives to expand the candidate pool. Here's a guide to the major programs.

How to think about engineering scholarships

For high-school girls planning to study engineering, the scholarship landscape breaks into four useful categories: national society scholarships, university-administered scholarships, employer-affiliated scholarships, and identity-and-need-based scholarships. Most successful applicants combine multiple sources.

Major national programs (US)

• Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Scholarships. One of the largest scholarship pools in engineering.
• Hispanic Heritage Foundation Engineering Awards.
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Scholarships.
• Google Lime Scholarship - for women and students with disabilities in computer science and engineering.
• AnitaB.org Pass-It-On Awards.
• Tau Beta Pi Scholarships.

Major programs internationally

• L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards - national fellowships in dozens of countries.
• UK: Royal Academy of Engineering scholarships
• Canada: NSERC scholarships
• Australia: Engineers Australia scholarships
• Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowships

Employer-affiliated programs

Many major engineering employers run scholarship programs that include internship or co-op components. Examples include Boeing scholarships, Lockheed Martin and RTX programs, Microsoft DigiGirlz, IBM Women in STEM, and most major automotive and aerospace employers. For semiconductor/hardware: Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Qualcomm all run multi-year programs.

How to find more

For a regularly-updated scholarship database filtered by field, level, and region, see the engineering scholarships section.