Computer science has the largest gender gap of any STEM field — and the most active scholarship and fellowship ecosystem to address it. Programs range from high school coding awards to PhD fellowships at major tech companies.
Deadline: November
A national award recognizing 9th–12th grade women, genderqueer, and non-binary students for their computing achievements and aspir…
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A scholarship for women in the early stages of a computer science or related technical degree at a US or Canadian university, prov…
View details →Deadline: December
A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a closely related field a…
View details →Deadline: December
Formerly the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, this program awards financial support and community resources to women in com…
View details →Deadline: Fall
A scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical field at an Australi…
View details →AI4ALL
Free summer AI education programs for high school students from underrepresented backgrounds — including girls and young women — h…
View details →Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) / FS-ISAC
A scholarship of up to $10,000 for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in cybersecurity or information security at ac…
View details →AnitaB.org
Deadline: Spring
Scholarships awarded by AnitaB.org providing complimentary registration, travel, and hotel support for women and gender-minority s…
View details →AFCEA Educational Foundation
Deadline: May
Annual scholarships of $2,500 to $5,000 from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Educational Found…
View details →AnitaB.org
Scholarships to attend Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists. Covers…
View details →AnitaB.org
$15,000 award presented on the mainstage at Grace Hopper Celebration for student women in technology who demonstrate exceptional v…
View details →Amazon
Deadline: January
$40,000 scholarship (paid over 4 years) for high school seniors from underrepresented and low-income backgrounds planning to study…
View details →Society of Women Engineers
Deadline: February
Three awards of $1,500 each named for pioneering computer scientist and Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. For women pursuing …
View details →USA Computing Olympiad
Deadline: January
A free online competitive programming competition offering contests across four divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) for hig…
View details →Deadline: September
A fellowship supporting exceptional PhD students in computing and related disciplines, providing tuition, stipend, and a paid rese…
View details →Deadline: Spring
A fellowship recognizing outstanding PhD students doing innovative research in computer science and related fields, providing up t…
View details →JPMorgan Chase
A paid 15-week returnship program at JPMorgan Chase for experienced professionals, including technologists, who have been out of t…
View details →European Innovation Council (European Commission)
A European Commission initiative under the European Innovation Council providing female-led deep-tech startups with €75,000 in gra…
View details →Major League Hacking
Deadline: Rolling
A 12-week remote program where participants contribute to open source projects, work on production software, and receive mentorshi…
View details →Software Freedom Conservancy
Deadline: February
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias and under…
View details →Linux Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Connects students and open source newcomers with mentors from Linux Foundation-hosted projects including Linux kernel, Kubernetes,…
View details →An organization dedicated to introducing Black and Brown girls ages 7–17 to coding, robotics, and mobile app development through w…
View details →Deadline: April
A global app development competition for girls ages 8–18 who work in teams to build a mobile app addressing a real community probl…
View details →Deadline: January
An 11-month tuition-free software engineering program for women and gender-expansive adults, covering full-stack web development t…
View details →Microsoft
A 16-week paid apprenticeship program at Microsoft for career-changers with non-traditional backgrounds — including bootcamp gradu…
View details →Apple
An immersive one-week program at Apple headquarters for app-driven organizations founded or led by women, offering access to Apple…
View details →Kode With Klossy
Free two-week residential and virtual coding camps for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 13–18, teaching web development, data…
View details →Deadline: February
A summer research program matching undergraduate women and underrepresented students with faculty mentors at research universities…
View details →A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited US or Canadian un…
View details →A paid summer software engineering internship at Google designed for first- and second-year undergraduate students from groups his…
View details →A €7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited universities in Europe, t…
View details →CRA-WP (Computing Research Association Widening Participation)
Deadline: January
Ten-week funded summer research placement pairing undergraduates with faculty mentors at computing departments across the U.S., wi…
View details →Deadline: April
A global program where Google awards stipends to contributors to spend a summer working on open source software projects mentored …
View details →Microsoft
Deadline: October
A 12-week summer internship at Microsoft for first- and second-year undergraduates to explore careers in software engineering and …
View details →Amazon
Deadline: September
Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and other busin…
View details →IBM
Deadline: April
A free virtual skills-building program for undergraduates providing exposure to IBM technology, career paths, and culture through …
View details →ICPC Foundation
Deadline: October
The world's largest and most prestigious collegiate programming contest, where teams of three undergraduates compete in regional c…
View details →Meta
Deadline: September
An annual international online programming competition hosted by Meta since 2011, where participants solve algorithmic problems ac…
View details →Palantir
A $7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical field at US o…
View details →Rotating (MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, Georgia Tech)
Deadline: September
Intensive two-day annual workshop for women graduate students and postdocs pursuing academic careers in EECS. Hosted at rotating t…
View details →Krell Institute / U.S. Department of Energy
One of the most prestigious computational science fellowships in the US, providing $36,000 per year plus full tuition and fees for…
View details →Meta
A two-year fellowship for exceptional PhD students conducting research in areas relevant to Meta's research agenda, including AI, …
View details →NVIDIA
Deadline: September
Up to $60,000 for PhD students doing outstanding research in computing, AI, graphics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Now…
View details →Microsoft Research
Fellowship for second-year PhD students from underrepresented groups in computing including women. Covers tuition and fees for thr…
View details →Microsoft Research
Deadline: November
Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in AI, machine…
View details →Key awards include the Generation Google Scholarship ($10,000, undergrad/grad), Google Women Techmakers Scholars Program ($10,000 + leadership retreat), Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology ($7,000), and the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award ($500–$5,000, high school). The Society of Women Engineers Scholarships cover CS students across 260+ awards totaling $1.5M annually.
Yes — the Meta Research PhD Fellowship ($42,000/year + tuition), Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship ($42,000/year + tuition), and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ($34,000/year) are the top PhD-level awards. Google also runs a PhD Fellowship program across CS research areas.
Ada Developers Academy (Seattle and online, tuition-free), Hackbright Academy is now closed. General Assembly, Flatiron, and Tech Elevator all have women's scholarship programs. Kode With Klossy runs free coding camps for girls 13–18 across the US.