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…
View details →Deadline: Fall
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 →IBM Research
Deadline: Annual (faculty nomination)
A long-running fellowship recognizing exceptional PhD students in the final years of study working in IBM's focus areas of technol…
View details →Supports PhD students conducting computer-science research in areas aligned with Snap's research priorities.…
View details →A funded AI safety research fellowship run by Anthropic, designed to accelerate AI safety research and develop research talent. Fe…
View details →A twelve-month Computing Research Association fellowship for early-career computing researchers one to three years past their PhD,…
View details →An independent 12-week research fellowship that pairs scholars with mentors across seven tracks: empirical research, theory, strat…
View details →A nine-week mentored AI safety research fellowship based at the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) in London, with extensions of…
View details →A six-month fellowship funding external researchers, engineers and practitioners to work on AI safety problems including safety ev…
View details →A 13-week full-time technical AI safety research programme in London, run twice a year, in which participants write a technical pa…
View details →A fully funded five-month in-person fellowship at Constellation's Berkeley, California research centre, with an optional extension…
View details →A nine-week in-person AI safety research fellowship run by the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative from an office in Harvard Squ…
View details →A remote fellowship from BASE, an AI safety research lab building pathways for Black researchers and professionals into AI safety,…
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 →Amazon
A return-to-work program for women who have taken a career break of 12 months or more and are re-entering the workforce, including…
View details →Apprenti is a nationally recognized, U.S. Department of Labor-registered tech apprenticeship program that places candidates into r…
View details →Multiverse delivers employer-based apprenticeships in software engineering, data, and AI, where apprentices learn on the job in a …
View details →Cisco
Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career break of at …
View details →AnitaB.org
A paid, hands-on apprenticeship from AnitaB.org helping people from underrepresented groups enter tech careers, with a high full-t…
View details →Google Career Certificates is a computer science training and career program.…
View details →A large computer science competition offering free online informatics and computational-thinking tasks for students aged 6-18 acro…
View details →Nonprofit providing high schoolers from underserved communities with technical skills training and paid corporate internships in t…
View details →Returnship program helping women with career breaks re-enter technical careers in IT and engineering through paid structured retur…
View details →NYC nonprofit offering free tech mentorship and software engineering training plus creative workforce training for justice-impacte…
View details →Provides coding and business/tech training plus reentry support to incarcerated men and women across facilities in multiple states…
View details →The premier international computer science and algorithmic programming competition for secondary school students, held annually si…
View details →A nonprofit preparing young men from underserved communities for tech careers through tech-exposure activities and a flagship six-…
View details →A free STEM education program (residential and virtual) preparing students from underrepresented backgrounds for STEM degrees and …
View details →A nonprofit uniting LGBTQ+ tech professionals across many cities, with leadership development, mentorship, and the college-focused…
View details →A professional community for Black software engineers, technologists and executives, offering membership, the A* career-advancemen…
View details →A global network of free, volunteer-led coding clubs for young people aged 7-17, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…
View details →A nonprofit empowering Latine professionals in tech through community, mentorship, a job board, regional chapters and the Techquer…
View details →A software engineering career fellowship pairing fellows with staff-level mentors for adaptive technical drills, system design, mo…
View details →Nonprofit providing free technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership training to Black male youth (roughly 8th-10th grade) throug…
View details →Free Texas-based nonprofit helping underrepresented and low-income high school students build technical skills through after-schoo…
View details →Deadline: Recurring cohorts (applications open periodically)
Laboratoria is a nonprofit that helps women across Latin America build careers in the digital economy. After a decade as a coding …
View details →Deadline: Recurring cohorts (applications open periodically)
LinkedIn REACH is a registered technical apprenticeship for people from non-traditional backgrounds - bootcamp grads, self-taught …
View details →A UK return-to-work programme for experienced technologists re-entering the industry after a career break, aimed particularly at p…
View details →A full-time paid returnship for technical professionals who have taken a career break of one year or more. Participants refresh th…
View details →A six-month program at OpenAI in San Francisco for builders and early researchers from any domain who want to move into AI researc…
View details →A five-week in-person technical training program in machine learning engineering for AI safety, run at the London Initiative for S…
View details →A free Advent calendar of small programming puzzles, created and run annually by Eric Wastl, that can be solved in any programming…
View details →A month-long open-source celebration held every October, launched by DigitalOcean in 2014 as a challenge to open four pull request…
View details →Deadline: December 31
A free four-week residential summer programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, introducing Ethiopian high school students in grades 9 to …
View details →A fully funded international STEM exchange sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in…
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 →National Security Agency
Deadline: October
An NSA work-study scholarship for graduating high school seniors planning to major in computer science, computer engineering, or e…
View details →Rutgers University
An eight-week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates run by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Sc…
View details →A scholarship from Google, in partnership with Lime Connect, for students with visible or invisible disabilities pursuing a degree…
View details →IEEE Computer Society
Deadline: October
An academic excellence award co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computing honor society, giving …
View details →National Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Deadline: January
A paid summer internship at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, giving undergraduate and gradua…
View details →A paid summer internship at Hudson River Trading for second-year undergraduates that rotates participants through the Algorithm De…
View details →Brown University
A nine-week fully funded NSF REU at Brown University where undergraduates conduct research at the intersection of artificial intel…
View details →U.S. House of Representatives
Deadline: October
Nationwide coding competition hosted by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives for middle and high school students, who buil…
View details →University of Nevada, Reno
Ten-week NSF REU in human-robot interaction and collaborative autonomous systems for hospital, clinic, home and infrastructure set…
View details →University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
A recurring NSF REU using high-performance computing across bioinformatics, computer science, chemistry, geography, and materials …
View details →University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deadline: April 10, 2026
A nine-week REU at UNC's Renaissance Computing Institute (May 25 to July 24, 2026) in networks, distributed systems, machine learn…
View details →Deadline: Annual tournament; 2026 High School Finals Feb 21, 2026
An MIT-run programming competition (with NASA and the ISS National Lab) in which middle and high school student teams write code t…
View details →Deadline: Annual; 2026 contest Feb 18-19, 2026
An annual programming contest for secondary school students run by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) at…
View details →University of Maryland, College Park
An NSF REU at the University of Maryland in combinatorics, algorithms, and AI for real-world problems.…
View details →University of Washington
A summer REU in human-computer interaction and design through the University of Washington's DUB research group.…
View details →A global student technology competition run by Microsoft in which teams build apps and startups.…
View details →Purdue University
Deadline: February 16, 2026
An REU hosted on Purdue University's Anvil supercomputer, providing undergraduates summer research experience in advanced and high…
View details →A program connecting undergraduate women and underrepresented students to computing and AI coursework, skills, and industry experi…
View details →A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and internships…
View details →A national community supporting Black and Latinx computing students with career development, mentorship, and technical resources.…
View details →KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)
Botball Educational Robotics is a computer science STEM competition open to students.…
View details →Deadline: January
North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO) is a computer science STEM competition open to students.…
View details →University of Minnesota
A summer NSF REU in human-centered computing where undergraduates conduct computer science research with faculty mentors on the Mi…
View details →Washington State University Vancouver
A ten-week NSF-funded REU (June 8 to August 14, 2026) hosted jointly by WSU Vancouver's School of Engineering and Computer Science…
View details →Rochester Institute of Technology
An NSF REU at the Rochester Institute of Technology in computational sensing for human-centered AI.…
View details →Deadline: Annual (2026 event April 4-5)
YQuantum is Yale's annual quantum computing hackathon, bringing together undergraduate and graduate students to build quantum-comp…
View details →Deadline: Annual (late January/early February)
MIT iQuHACK is MIT's annual quantum computing hackathon, held in hybrid in-person and virtual formats for students worldwide.…
View details →An eight-week fully funded summer research programme run by the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich for bachelor's and ma…
View details →EPFL
A three-month paid summer research fellowship at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, open to bachelor's and master's students in comput…
View details →Oracle's summer internships for university students span product development and software engineering as well as finance, sales, m…
View details →Futureforce is Salesforce's university programme. The flagship summer internship runs 8-12 weeks and hires students worldwide acro…
View details →Stripe's emerging talent programme covers internships, apprenticeships and early career roles for undergraduate and graduate stude…
View details →A part-time, fully remote research fellowship that pairs aspiring AI safety and policy researchers with working professionals on p…
View details →Oregon State University
Oregon State University’s online B.S. in computer science, delivered through the university’s Ecampus division and widely used as …
View details →University of London
Deadline: Intakes October 2026 and April 2027
A University of London bachelor’s in computer science that can be studied fully online or in person at a local teaching centre, ta…
View details →University of the People
A tuition-free, WSCUC-accredited and fully online university offering an Associate of Science in Computer Science (20 courses, abo…
View details →University of Washington
A national initiative to increase the participation of people with disabilities in computing, working both directly with students …
View details →Spotify's 10-week summer internship programme, spanning business, product and technical teams across the company's global offices.…
View details →Deadline: January 11
A ten-week summer school at Los Alamos National Laboratory running June 8 to August 14, 2026, in existence since 2018. The first t…
View details →Deadline: First Tuesday in January
An eleven-week paid internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, running May 26 to August 7, 2026, giving students hands-on exper…
View details →An intensive ten-week internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, running June 1 to August 7, 2026, giving students a foundation…
View details →A nonprofit that builds career paths into public service for early-career technologists while helping government agencies, nonprof…
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 →Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a computer science research fellowship providing funding to early-career research…
View details →A one-year Apple program for graduates with advanced degrees, spurring interdisciplinary collaboration on machine-learning solutio…
View details →Provincial scholarships for full-time graduate students researching emerging technologies at participating Alberta post-secondary …
View details →A paid, in-person research placement that embeds enrolled Bachelor's, Master's and PhD students onto active Google DeepMind, Googl…
View details →Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech's at-scale online master's in computer science, built for working professionals. All required courses and activities …
View details →The University of Texas at Austin
Deadline: Fall: priority March 15, final April 15. Spring: priority August 1, final September 1
A 30-credit-hour online computer science master’s taught by UT Austin’s tenured faculty through the university’s Computer & Data S…
View details →The University of Texas at Austin
Deadline: Fall: priority March 15, final April 15. Spring: priority August 1, final September 1
One of the first artificial intelligence master’s degrees available 100% online, delivered by UT Austin as a 30-credit-hour, ten-c…
View details →University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: October 30 (Spring 2027 entry)
A 32-credit-hour, coursework-only computer science master’s from the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, delivered throug…
View details →Northeastern University
Deadline: August 30 (fall entry)
A 44-semester-hour computer science master’s from Northeastern’s Khoury College built specifically for career changers with no com…
View details →Johns Hopkins University
An online artificial intelligence master’s from Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, spanning machine learning and natural…
View details →A ten-week paid research experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory run by the Quantum Science Center for graduate students in qu…
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 →A competitive fellowship for PhD students at participating North American, European, and Asian universities working in AI, machine…
View details →Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two years of f…
View details →Jane Street
A fellowship for PhD students in EECS, mathematics, physics, or statistics, providing full tuition and fees plus a $45,000 stipend…
View details →An annual award from the Association for Computing Machinery recognizing the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and c…
View details →University of Manchester
A four-year UKRI-supported doctoral training programme run jointly by the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge…
View details →University of Lincoln
Deadline: October 2027 entry projects advertised from September 2026
A UKRI AI doctoral training centre led by the University of Lincoln with the Universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde and Queen's …
View details →University of Surrey
A UKRI doctoral training centre led by the University of Surrey with Royal Holloway, University of London, researching artificial …
View details →University of Southampton
A UKRI AI doctoral training centre based in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, training researcher…
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.