Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing STEM fields with severe gender underrepresentation. Scholarship programs specifically targeting women in cybersecurity have grown significantly since 2018.
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: March
A joint scholarship from the Applied Computer Security Associates and CRA-WP providing up to $10,000 for women pursuing bachelor's…
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 →United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation / Leidos
A $10,000 scholarship from Leidos, administered through the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), for graduate…
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 →ISACA Foundation
A global scholarship program from the ISACA Foundation for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide pursuing degrees in IT au…
View details →CyberStart America is a free, gamified online cybersecurity program for U.S. high school students (grades 9-12) run by the Nationa…
View details →Deadline: April 8, 2026
An annual scholarship awarding US$35,000 across the U.S. and Canada — including two $10,000 awards in the U.S. and three $5,000 aw…
View details →Deadline: May 31, 2026
A $1,000 scholarship for current and future undergraduate or graduate students at U.S. or Canadian institutions pursuing analytica…
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 →Palantir Technologies
Deadline: November
A fellowship designed for students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech, offering mentorship, networking, and a pathway to Pa…
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 →Simons Foundation / Flatiron Institute
Deadline: Varies by center
Postdoctoral fellowships at the Flatiron Institute across computational astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quant…
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 →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 →Amazon Web Services
AWS re/Start is a cybersecurity training and career program.…
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 large student-run cybersecurity event hosted by NYU, with CTF, embedded security, AI hardware and cyber policy challenges across…
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 →The UK National Cyber Security Centre's programme for developing young cyber security talent, spanning free courses for 11 to 17 y…
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 →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 →Citadel / Correlation One
Deadline: Rolling
A series of data science competitions hosted by Citadel and Correlation One, open to university students globally, where teams sol…
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 →An NSF-funded scholarship providing up to three years of full tuition plus an annual stipend ($27,000 undergraduate, $37,000 gradu…
View details →U.S. Department of Defense
Deadline: February
A Department of Defense scholarship-for-service program (formerly CySP) for rising junior and senior undergraduates and graduate s…
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 →Merit- and need-based scholarships from the ISC2 Center for Cyber Safety and Education for undergraduate students pursuing degrees…
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 →Carnegie Mellon University / Johns Hopkins University
A full-time summer fellowship training undergraduate and graduate students to apply machine learning and data science to social-im…
View details →Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A 12-week paid summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in dat…
View details →A paid summer internship at Hudson River Trading for second-year undergraduates that rotates participants through the Algorithm De…
View details →A scholarship from INFORMS supporting undergraduates in operations research, management science, and analytics, including funded a…
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 →University of North Carolina at Charlotte
An NSF REU at UNC Charlotte engaging undergraduates in research on secure, intelligent, and connected computing systems.…
View details →Air & Space Forces Association
Deadline: Registration deadline October 1
Air & Space Forces Association program in which middle and high school teams act as newly hired IT staff securing virtual networks…
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 →Carnegie Mellon University CyLab
Free Carnegie Mellon CyLab capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition for participants aged 13+ covering cryptography, web exploit…
View details →Cyber Skyline / National Cyber League
Deadline: Fall season registration August-October
Puzzle-based, capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition and learning community for high school, college and bootcamp students to …
View details →American Statistical Association
Deadline: Spring (host-site dependent)
American Statistical Association 48-hour data-analysis competition where undergraduate teams analyze a large, rich, real-world dat…
View details →University of Texas at Austin
Deadline: April 1
NSF REU at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in high-performance computing, AI, data-intensive computing and visualization.…
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 →Princeton University
NSF REU training site providing computational-biology research experience, with a focus on supporting formerly incarcerated underg…
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 →The University of Alabama
A 10-week NSF REU where eight students research security of emerging networks in energy and intelligent transportation systems, wi…
View details →University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Deadline: March 1, 2026
A fully online 10-week NSF REU training undergraduates in big data analytics and high-performance computing applied across science…
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 →Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Deadline: Annual; 2026 cycle applications closed
A 10-week REU in data science and applied artificial intelligence (May 26 to August 1, 2026) with an $8,400 stipend, paid campus h…
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 →San José State University
Ten-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at San José State University applying machine learning to cybersecurity…
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 →Boise State University
An NSF REU site at Boise State University focused on blockchain and distributed-systems research.…
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 →Emory University
Deadline: March 1, 2026
An NSF REU/RET site at Emory University offering undergraduate research in computational mathematics for data science.…
View details →University of South Florida
Deadline: March 1, 2026
An NSF REU site at the University of South Florida providing undergraduate research experiences in hardware security.…
View details →Columbia University
A Columbia Engineering REU offering undergraduates summer research in cybersecurity as part of the Cyber NYC initiative.…
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 →Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Deadline: 2025-11-08
ASSURE-REU: Text Analytics for Social Scientists is a data science summer research program at Syracuse University School of Inform…
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 →The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition challenges university teams to defend a live network infrastructure against acti…
View details →The Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition tasks university teams with performing a realistic penetration test and repo…
View details →US Cyber Games identifies and trains elite student and early-career cybersecurity talent to represent the United States in interna…
View details →The American Association of Geographers gives a cash prize plus travel grant to undergraduates whose work bridges geographic scien…
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 →A scholarship for undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds pursuing actuarial science, data science, mathemat…
View details →Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Deadline: February 1, 2026
A research-intensive ten-week summer program (June 1 to August 7, 2026) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for undergr…
View details →University of Chicago
An immersive eight-week paid summer research program at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute pairing undergraduates wi…
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 →University of Houston-Downtown
Deadline: March 15, 2026
An NSF-funded summer REU at the University of Houston-Downtown exposing undergraduates to problems in computational sciences and e…
View details →U.S. Department of Energy collegiate cybersecurity competition in which teams of university students defend simulated cyber-physic…
View details →Tennessee Technological University
An NSF REU at Tennessee Tech focused on cybersecurity for cyber-physical systems.…
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 (registration ~late January)
MITRE's Embedded Capture the Flag is an annual hardware and embedded-security competition where student teams design a secure embe…
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 →University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: March 25, 2026
A 10-week NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, training students to …
View details →A U.S. team-based cybersecurity competition run by CYBER.ORG for students in grades 4-12, split into intermediate (grades 4-8) and…
View details →A scholarship from the ISACA Foundation supporting students worldwide pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in IT audit, ri…
View details →A joint scholarship from the ISACA Foundation and the National Cybersecurity Alliance for undergraduate and graduate students inte…
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 →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 →Established in 1989 by the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statist…
View details →ACM SIGHPC
Deadline: May
A fellowship created by ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing to increase the diversity of students pursuing …
View details →Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a computer science research fellowship providing funding to early-career research…
View details →Conference scholarships from the American Statistical Association covering registration for the annual Women in Statistics and Dat…
View details →A scholarship from the American Statistical Association supporting LGBTQ+ students pursuing degrees in statistics and data science…
View details →An American Statistical Association scholarship trust fund award of US$2,500 for an outstanding graduate student in survey statist…
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 →Deadline: September
A fellowship for doctoral students expanding the frontiers of a STEM field such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer scien…
View details →A fellowship for full-time doctoral students working in data science and related fields including natural language processing, mac…
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 →WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity) offers multiple scholarships including the FS-ISAC Women in Cyber Scholarship (open internationally). The SANS Institute runs women-in-cybersecurity scholarship programs. The CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program (NSF-funded) provides full scholarships plus stipends for cybersecurity students who commit to government service.
WiCyS runs training events and job fairs. Per Scholas offers scholarships for women entering tech including cybersecurity. Several ISACAs and ISSAs have local scholarship programs for women pursuing security certifications.
CompTIA, EC-Council, and ISC2 all have women-in-security scholarship programs for certification costs. Cyberseek tracks demand and supply in the field — cybersecurity roles remain severely understaffed, making this one of the highest-opportunity STEM entries for women currently.