Women in Cybersecurity

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.

242Programs
176With Funding
30Women-Only
6Program Types

Scholarships (20)

Funded Women-Only

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award

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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Funded Women-Only

Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology

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…

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Funded Women-Only

Generation Google Scholarship: Women in Computing

Deadline: December

A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a closely related field a…

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Funded Women-Only

Google Women Techmakers Scholars Program

Deadline: December

Formerly the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, this program awards financial support and community resources to women in com…

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Funded Women-Only

Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS)

Deadline: March

A joint scholarship from the Applied Computer Security Associates and CRA-WP providing up to $10,000 for women pursuing bachelor's…

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Funded Women-Only Australia

Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship — Australia

Deadline: Fall

A scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical field at an Australi…

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AI4ALL Summer Programs

AI4ALL

Free summer AI education programs for high school students from underrepresented backgrounds — including girls and young women — h…

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Funded Women-Only

WiCyS FS-ISAC Women in Cyber Scholarship

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…

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Funded Women-Only

GHC Advancing Inclusion Student Scholarships

AnitaB.org

Deadline: Spring

Scholarships awarded by AnitaB.org providing complimentary registration, travel, and hotel support for women and gender-minority s…

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AFCEA STEM Majors Scholarship

AFCEA Educational Foundation

Deadline: May

Annual scholarships of $2,500 to $5,000 from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Educational Found…

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Leidos Scholarship for AI/ML Advancement

United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation / Leidos

A $10,000 scholarship from Leidos, administered through the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), for graduate…

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Funded Women-Only Online

GHC Advancing Inclusion Scholarships

AnitaB.org

Scholarships to attend Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists. Covers…

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Funded Women-Only

Abie Student of Vision Award

AnitaB.org

$15,000 award presented on the mainstage at Grace Hopper Celebration for student women in technology who demonstrate exceptional v…

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Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship

Amazon

Deadline: January

$40,000 scholarship (paid over 4 years) for high school seniors from underrepresented and low-income backgrounds planning to study…

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Funded Women-Only

SWE Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Scholarships

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 …

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USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)

USA Computing Olympiad

Deadline: January

A free online competitive programming competition offering contests across four divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) for hig…

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ISACA Foundation Scholarship Program

ISACA Foundation

A global scholarship program from the ISACA Foundation for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide pursuing degrees in IT au…

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Funded Online

CyberStart America

CyberStart America is a free, gamified online cybersecurity program for U.S. high school students (grades 9-12) run by the Nationa…

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Funded Women-Only Online

ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship

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…

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Funded Online

Row Zero Data Analytics Scholarship

Deadline: May 31, 2026

A $1,000 scholarship for current and future undergraduate or graduate students at U.S. or Canadian institutions pursuing analytica…

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Fellowships (21)

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Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

Deadline: September

A fellowship supporting exceptional PhD students in computing and related disciplines, providing tuition, stipend, and a paid rese…

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Google PhD Fellowship Program

Deadline: Spring

A fellowship recognizing outstanding PhD students doing innovative research in computer science and related fields, providing up t…

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JPMorgan Chase ReEntry Program

JPMorgan Chase

A paid 15-week returnship program at JPMorgan Chase for experienced professionals, including technologists, who have been out of t…

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Funded Women-Only Europe

Women TechEU

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…

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Palantir Path Fellowship

Palantir Technologies

Deadline: November

A fellowship designed for students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech, offering mentorship, networking, and a pathway to Pa…

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Funded Online

MLH Fellowship

Major League Hacking

Deadline: Rolling

A 12-week remote program where participants contribute to open source projects, work on production software, and receive mentorshi…

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Funded Online

Outreachy

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…

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Funded Online

Linux Foundation LFX Mentorship Program

Linux Foundation

Deadline: Rolling

Connects students and open source newcomers with mentors from Linux Foundation-hosted projects including Linux kernel, Kubernetes,…

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Flatiron Research Fellowship (Simons Foundation)

Simons Foundation / Flatiron Institute

Deadline: Varies by center

Postdoctoral fellowships at the Flatiron Institute across computational astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quant…

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IBM PhD Fellowship Program

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…

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Snap Research Fellowship

Supports PhD students conducting computer-science research in areas aligned with Snap's research priorities.…

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Anthropic Fellows Program

A funded AI safety research fellowship run by Anthropic, designed to accelerate AI safety research and develop research talent. Fe…

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CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship

A twelve-month Computing Research Association fellowship for early-career computing researchers one to three years past their PhD,…

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Funded Online

Cohere Labs Scholars Program

An eight-month, full-time paid research apprenticeship that pairs aspiring machine learning researchers with the Cohere Labs resea…

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MATS Research (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars)

An independent 12-week research fellowship that pairs scholars with mentors across seven tracks: empirical research, theory, strat…

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Funded United Kingdom

Pivotal Research Fellowship

A nine-week mentored AI safety research fellowship based at the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) in London, with extensions of…

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Funded Online

OpenAI Safety Fellowship

A six-month fellowship funding external researchers, engineers and practitioners to work on AI safety problems including safety ev…

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Funded United Kingdom

LASR Labs

A 13-week full-time technical AI safety research programme in London, run twice a year, in which participants write a technical pa…

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Astra Fellowship (Constellation)

A fully funded five-month in-person fellowship at Constellation's Berkeley, California research centre, with an optional extension…

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CBAI AI Safety Research Fellowship

A nine-week in-person AI safety research fellowship run by the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative from an office in Harvard Squ…

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Online

BASE Fellowship (Black in AI Safety and Ethics)

A remote fellowship from BASE, an AI safety research lab building pathways for Black researchers and professionals into AI safety,…

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Certificates & Bootcamps (45)

Women-Only Online

Black Girls Code (BGC)

An organization dedicated to introducing Black and Brown girls ages 7–17 to coding, robotics, and mobile app development through w…

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Funded Women-Only Online

Technovation Girls Challenge

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…

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Funded Women-Only

Ada Developers Academy

Deadline: January

An 11-month tuition-free software engineering program for women and gender-expansive adults, covering full-stack web development t…

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Microsoft LEAP Apprenticeship Program

Microsoft

A 16-week paid apprenticeship program at Microsoft for career-changers with non-traditional backgrounds — including bootcamp gradu…

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Women-Only

Apple Entrepreneur Camp (Female Founders Edition)

Apple

An immersive one-week program at Apple headquarters for app-driven organizations founded or led by women, offering access to Apple…

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Funded Women-Only

Kode With Klossy Summer Coding Camps

Kode With Klossy

Free two-week residential and virtual coding camps for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 13–18, teaching web development, data…

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Funded Women-Only

Amazon Rekindle Return-to-Work Program

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…

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Funded Online

Apprenti

Apprenti is a nationally recognized, U.S. Department of Labor-registered tech apprenticeship program that places candidates into r…

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Funded Online United Kingdom

Multiverse Apprenticeships

Multiverse delivers employer-based apprenticeships in software engineering, data, and AI, where apprentices learn on the job in a …

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Cisco Return-to-Work Program (Rejoin)

Cisco

Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career break of at …

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AnitaB.org Apprenticeship Pathway Program

AnitaB.org

A paid, hands-on apprenticeship from AnitaB.org helping people from underrepresented groups enter tech careers, with a high full-t…

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AWS re/Start

Amazon Web Services

AWS re/Start is a cybersecurity training and career program.…

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Online

Google Career Certificates

Google

Google Career Certificates is a computer science training and career program.…

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Online

Bebras International Challenge on Informatics and Computational Thinking

A large computer science competition offering free online informatics and computational-thinking tasks for students aged 6-18 acro…

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Genesys Works

Nonprofit providing high schoolers from underserved communities with technical skills training and paid corporate internships in t…

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Funded Women-Only

Women Back to Work

Returnship program helping women with career breaks re-enter technical careers in IT and engineering through paid structured retur…

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Online

Emergent Works

NYC nonprofit offering free tech mentorship and software engineering training plus creative workforce training for justice-impacte…

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The Last Mile

Provides coding and business/tech training plus reentry support to incarcerated men and women across facilities in multiple states…

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International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

The premier international computer science and algorithmic programming competition for secondary school students, held annually si…

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CSAW (Cyber Security Awareness Week)

A large student-run cybersecurity event hosted by NYU, with CTF, embedded security, AI hardware and cyber policy challenges across…

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All Star Code

A nonprofit preparing young men from underserved communities for tech careers through tech-exposure activities and a flagship six-…

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SMASH Academy

A free STEM education program (residential and virtual) preparing students from underrepresented backgrounds for STEM degrees and …

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Out in Tech

A nonprofit uniting LGBTQ+ tech professionals across many cities, with leadership development, mentorship, and the college-focused…

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/dev/color

A professional community for Black software engineers, technologists and executives, offering membership, the A* career-advancemen…

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CoderDojo

A global network of free, volunteer-led coding clubs for young people aged 7-17, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…

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Techqueria

A nonprofit empowering Latine professionals in tech through community, mentorship, a job board, regional chapters and the Techquer…

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Formation Fellowship

A software engineering career fellowship pairing fellows with staff-level mentors for adaptive technical drills, system design, mo…

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The Hidden Genius Project

Nonprofit providing free technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership training to Black male youth (roughly 8th-10th grade) throug…

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Code2College

Free Texas-based nonprofit helping underrepresented and low-income high school students build technical skills through after-schoo…

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Laboratoria

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 …

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LinkedIn REACH Apprenticeship

Deadline: Recurring cohorts (applications open periodically)

LinkedIn REACH is a registered technical apprenticeship for people from non-traditional backgrounds - bootcamp grads, self-taught …

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United Kingdom

NCSC CyberFirst

The UK National Cyber Security Centre's programme for developing young cyber security talent, spanning free courses for 11 to 17 y…

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United Kingdom

Tech Returners

A UK return-to-work programme for experienced technologists re-entering the industry after a career break, aimed particularly at p…

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IBM Tech Re-Entry Program

A full-time paid returnship for technical professionals who have taken a career break of one year or more. Participants refresh th…

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OpenAI Residency

A six-month program at OpenAI in San Francisco for builders and early researchers from any domain who want to move into AI researc…

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Funded Women-Only Online

EmpoWE-R Women of InfoSec Scholarships

Deadline: 15 August

Information security scholarships from EmpoWE-R Women of InfoSec, offered as an Investing in Success award and a Continuing Educat…

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Online

XP Cyber Range (formerly the NICE Challenge Project)

A free academic cyber range giving US-based students and educators real-world cybersecurity workforce challenges year-round. Stude…

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Funded Online

Cyversity Training, Certification and Mentorship Programs

Cyversity is a non-profit association supporting the academic and professional success of underrepresented cybersecurity students …

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Funded United Kingdom

ARENA (Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator)

A five-week in-person technical training program in machine learning engineering for AI safety, run at the London Initiative for S…

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Online Canada

IVADO Training Programs and MOOCs

Universite de Montreal

Digital intelligence training from IVADO, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence research and training consortium. Offerings i…

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Online

Zindi

A competitive AI and data science platform where participants join real-world challenges to build skills and a public portfolio, w…

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Online

Advent of Code

A free Advent calendar of small programming puzzles, created and run annually by Eric Wastl, that can be solved in any programming…

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Online

Hacktoberfest

A month-long open-source celebration held every October, launched by DigitalOcean in 2014 as a challenge to open four pull request…

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Funded Other

AddisCoder

Deadline: December 31

A free four-week residential summer programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, introducing Ethiopian high school students in grades 9 to …

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Funded Women-Only

TechGirls

A fully funded international STEM exchange sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in…

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Undergraduate Programs (101)

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CRA-WP Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)

Deadline: February

A summer research program matching undergraduate women and underrepresented students with faculty mentors at research universities…

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Funded Women-Only

Generation Google Scholarship: Women in Computing (US & Canada)

A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited US or Canadian un…

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Google STEP Internship

A paid summer software engineering internship at Google designed for first- and second-year undergraduate students from groups his…

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Funded Women-Only

Generation Google Scholarship (EMEA)

Google

A €7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited universities in Europe, t…

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DREU — Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates

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…

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Funded Online

Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

Google

Deadline: April

A global program where Google awards stipends to contributors to spend a summer working on open source software projects mentored …

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Microsoft Explore Program

Microsoft

Deadline: October

A 12-week summer internship at Microsoft for first- and second-year undergraduates to explore careers in software engineering and …

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Amazon Software Development Engineer Internship

Amazon

Deadline: September

Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and other busin…

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Online

IBM Accelerate Program

IBM

Deadline: April

A free virtual skills-building program for undergraduates providing exposure to IBM technology, career paths, and culture through …

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Funded Online

Citadel Data Open

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…

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ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest

ICPC Foundation

Deadline: October

The world's largest and most prestigious collegiate programming contest, where teams of three undergraduates compete in regional c…

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Funded Online

Meta Hacker Cup

Meta

Deadline: September

An annual international online programming competition hosted by Meta since 2011, where participants solve algorithmic problems ac…

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CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS)

An NSF-funded scholarship providing up to three years of full tuition plus an annual stipend ($27,000 undergraduate, $37,000 gradu…

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DoD Cyber Scholarship Program (Cyber Service Academy)

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…

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NSA Stokes Educational Scholarship Program

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…

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DIMACS REU at Rutgers

Rutgers University

An eight-week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates run by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Sc…

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ISC2 Undergraduate Cybersecurity Scholarship

Merit- and need-based scholarships from the ISC2 Center for Cyber Safety and Education for undergraduate students pursuing degrees…

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Google Lime Scholarship

A scholarship from Google, in partnership with Lime Connect, for students with visible or invisible disabilities pursuing a degree…

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IEEE Computer Society Upsilon Pi Epsilon Award

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 …

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NCAR SIParCS (Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science)

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…

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Data Science for Social Good Fellowship

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…

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Data Science Summer Institute (DSSI)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

A 12-week paid summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in dat…

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Hudson River Trading Sophomore Internship

A paid summer internship at Hudson River Trading for second-year undergraduates that rotates participants through the Algorithm De…

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INFORMS Scholarship

A scholarship from INFORMS supporting undergraduates in operations research, management science, and analytics, including funded a…

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AI for Computational Creativity REU

Brown University

A nine-week fully funded NSF REU at Brown University where undergraduates conduct research at the intersection of artificial intel…

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Smart and Secure Future Computing REU

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

An NSF REU at UNC Charlotte engaging undergraduates in research on secure, intelligent, and connected computing systems.…

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Funded Online

CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition

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…

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Online

Congressional App Challenge

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…

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Funded Online

picoCTF

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab

Free Carnegie Mellon CyLab capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition for participants aged 13+ covering cryptography, web exploit…

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Online

National Cyber League

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 …

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ASA DataFest

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…

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TACC NSF REU: Cyberinfrastructure Research (UT Austin)

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.…

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University of Nevada, Reno NSF REU: Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction

University of Nevada, Reno

Ten-week NSF REU in human-robot interaction and collaborative autonomous systems for hospital, clinic, home and infrastructure set…

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Princeton University NSF REU Training Site: Computational Biology Research

Princeton University

NSF REU training site providing computational-biology research experience, with a focus on supporting formerly incarcerated underg…

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UW-Eau Claire Blugold High-Performance Computing NSF-REU

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

A recurring NSF REU using high-performance computing across bioinformatics, computer science, chemistry, geography, and materials …

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NSF REU Site: Cybersecurity for Emerging Networks in Energy and Intelligent Transportation Systems

The University of Alabama

A 10-week NSF REU where eight students research security of emerging networks in energy and intelligent transportation systems, wi…

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Funded Online

NSF REU Site: Online Interdisciplinary Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering

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…

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NSF REU Site: Multi-disciplinary Research with the FABRIC Network

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…

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NSF REU Site: Applied Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Applications (WPI)

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…

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Online

Zero Robotics

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…

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Online Canada

Canadian Computing Competition (CCC)

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…

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San José State University NSF REU in Machine Learning Cybersecurity

San José State University

Ten-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at San José State University applying machine learning to cybersecurity…

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REU in Combinatorics, Algorithms, and AI for Real Problems (CAAR)

University of Maryland, College Park

An NSF REU at the University of Maryland in combinatorics, algorithms, and AI for real-world problems.…

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Blockchain REU (BREU) Site

Boise State University

An NSF REU site at Boise State University focused on blockchain and distributed-systems research.…

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DUB REU in Human-Computer Interaction and Design

University of Washington

A summer REU in human-computer interaction and design through the University of Washington's DUB research group.…

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Funded Online

Microsoft Imagine Cup

A global student technology competition run by Microsoft in which teams build apps and startups.…

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Emory University REU in Computational Mathematics for Data Science

Emory University

Deadline: March 1, 2026

An NSF REU/RET site at Emory University offering undergraduate research in computational mathematics for data science.…

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University of South Florida REU Site on Hardware Security

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.…

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Cyber NYC REU (Columbia Engineering)

Columbia University

A Columbia Engineering REU offering undergraduates summer research in cybersecurity as part of the Cyber NYC initiative.…

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Purdue Anvil REU in Advanced Computing

Purdue University

Deadline: February 16, 2026

An REU hosted on Purdue University's Anvil supercomputer, providing undergraduates summer research experience in advanced and high…

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Break Through Tech

A program connecting undergraduate women and underrepresented students to computing and AI coursework, skills, and industry experi…

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Women-Only Online

Rewriting the Code

A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and internships…

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Online

ColorStack

A national community supporting Black and Latinx computing students with career development, mentorship, and technical resources.…

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ASSURE-REU: Text Analytics for Social Scientists

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…

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Botball Educational Robotics

KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)

Botball Educational Robotics is a computer science STEM competition open to students.…

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North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO)

Deadline: January

North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO) is a computer science STEM competition open to students.…

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National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC)

The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition challenges university teams to defend a live network infrastructure against acti…

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Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC)

The Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition tasks university teams with performing a realistic penetration test and repo…

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Online

US Cyber Games

US Cyber Games identifies and trains elite student and early-career cybersecurity talent to represent the United States in interna…

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AAG Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Award in Geographic Science

The American Association of Geographers gives a cash prize plus travel grant to undergraduates whose work bridges geographic scien…

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Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Human-Centered Computing), Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

A summer NSF REU in human-centered computing where undergraduates conduct computer science research with faculty mentors on the Mi…

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Milliman Opportunity Scholarship

A scholarship for undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds pursuing actuarial science, data science, mathemat…

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Mount Sinai Summer Research Training Program in Biomedical Big Data Science

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…

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Data Science Institute Summer Lab

University of Chicago

An immersive eight-week paid summer research program at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute pairing undergraduates wi…

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NSF REU Site: Building Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows

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…

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NSF REU Site at University of Houston-Downtown (Computational Sciences)

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…

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DOE CyberForce Competition

U.S. Department of Energy collegiate cybersecurity competition in which teams of university students defend simulated cyber-physic…

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Tennessee Tech REU: Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems

Tennessee Technological University

An NSF REU at Tennessee Tech focused on cybersecurity for cyber-physical systems.…

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RIT REU: Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI

Rochester Institute of Technology

An NSF REU at the Rochester Institute of Technology in computational sensing for human-centered AI.…

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MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF)

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…

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YQuantum (Yale Quantum Hackathon)

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…

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MIT iQuHACK

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.…

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FoDOMMaT REU (University of Illinois NCSA)

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 …

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Online

National Cyber Cup (CYBER.ORG)

A U.S. team-based cybersecurity competition run by CYBER.ORG for students in grades 4-12, split into intermediate (grades 4-8) and…

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Funded Online

ISACA SheLeadsTech Scholarship

A scholarship from the ISACA Foundation supporting students worldwide pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in IT audit, ri…

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ISACA and NCA See Yourself in Cyber Scholarship

A joint scholarship from the ISACA Foundation and the National Cybersecurity Alliance for undergraduate and graduate students inte…

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Funded Other

ETH Student Summer Research Fellowship

An eight-week fully funded summer research programme run by the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich for bachelor's and ma…

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ASA Norman Beery Memorial Scholarship

Deadline: March 1

An American Statistical Association scholarship directed at first-generation college students studying statistics or data science.…

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Summer@EPFL Research Fellowship

EPFL

A three-month paid summer research fellowship at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, open to bachelor's and master's students in comput…

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Oracle Student Internship Program

Oracle's summer internships for university students span product development and software engineering as well as finance, sales, m…

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Salesforce Futureforce Internships

Futureforce is Salesforce's university programme. The flagship summer internship runs 8-12 weeks and hires students worldwide acro…

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Stripe University Internship Program

Stripe's emerging talent programme covers internships, apprenticeships and early career roles for undergraduate and graduate stude…

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FBI Honors Internship Program

A paid, full-time summer internship at FBI headquarters or one of the Bureau's 56 field offices, open to undergraduate, graduate a…

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SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research)

A part-time, fully remote research fellowship that pairs aspiring AI safety and policy researchers with working professionals on p…

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Oregon State Ecampus Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Oregon State University

Oregon State University’s online B.S. in computer science, delivered through the university’s Ecampus division and widely used as …

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University of London BSc Computer Science

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…

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University of the People Computer Science Degrees

University of the People

A tuition-free, WSCUC-accredited and fully online university offering an Associate of Science in Computer Science (20 courses, abo…

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Funded Online

Early Quantum Career Immersion (EQCI) Program

A free six-week programme from The Coding School introducing undergraduates to quantum computing with an emphasis on quantum cyber…

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Funded Women-Only Online Canada

AI4Good Lab

Deadline: December 15

A seven-week machine learning training program for women and gender-diverse people, delivered as three in-person cohorts in Montre…

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Funded Online Canada

Vector Institute AI Research Internships

Vector Institute

Deadline: Varies by term

Paid machine learning research internships at Vector Institute in Toronto, open to students in second year or higher at a universi…

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Funded Online

AccessComputing

University of Washington

A national initiative to increase the participation of people with disabilities in computing, working both directly with students …

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Online

NSA Codebreaker Challenge

An annual reverse-engineering and cryptanalysis competition developed by the US National Security Agency, in which participants wo…

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Databricks Internships and Early Careers

Databricks' university recruiting programme for undergraduate and graduate students and new graduates. Interns and new graduates w…

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Spotify Global Summer Internship Program

Spotify's 10-week summer internship programme, spanning business, product and technical teams across the company's global offices.…

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Los Alamos Quantum Computing Summer School

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…

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Los Alamos Data Science at Scale Summer School

Deadline: February 4

A paid summer research internship in LANL's Data Science at Scale team, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Students choose a ten to …

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Los Alamos Supercomputer Institute

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…

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Los Alamos Community Data Science Fellowship

Deadline: February 6

A paid, full-time ten-week summer fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, running early June to mid-August, now in its sixth…

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Los Alamos Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship

An intensive ten-week internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, running June 1 to August 7, 2026, giving students a foundation…

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U.S. Census Bureau Internships and Fellowships

The student programme portfolio of the U.S. Census Bureau, the federal agency behind the decennial census and the country's major …

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Coding it Forward Fellowships

A nonprofit that builds career paths into public service for early-career technologists while helping government agencies, nonprof…

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Graduate Programs (30)

Funded Women-Only

Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship (WITA)

Palantir

A $7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical field at US o…

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Rising Stars in EECS Workshop

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…

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Funded Women-Only

ASA Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship

Established in 1989 by the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statist…

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ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship

ACM SIGHPC

Deadline: May

A fellowship created by ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing to increase the diversity of students pursuing …

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Funded Canada

Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence

Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a computer science research fellowship providing funding to early-career research…

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ASA Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference Scholarships

Conference scholarships from the American Statistical Association covering registration for the annual Women in Statistics and Dat…

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ASA Pride Scholarship

A scholarship from the American Statistical Association supporting LGBTQ+ students pursuing degrees in statistics and data science…

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ASA Edward C. Bryant Scholarship for Survey Statistics

An American Statistical Association scholarship trust fund award of US$2,500 for an outstanding graduate student in survey statist…

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ASA John J. Bartko Scholarship Award

Deadline: March 1

An American Statistical Association award recognizing promising young statisticians enrolled in a master's program or who have rec…

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ASA Lester R. Curtin Award

Deadline: March 1

An American Statistical Association award for promising young health statisticians, honoring the work of Lester R. Curtin in feder…

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ASA Lingzi Lu Memorial Award

Deadline: March 1

An American Statistical Association memorial award for master's students in statistics and recent master's graduates. Established …

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Apple AIML Residency Program

A one-year Apple program for graduates with advanced degrees, spurring interdisciplinary collaboration on machine-learning solutio…

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Funded Canada

Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarships

Provincial scholarships for full-time graduate students researching emerging technologies at participating Alberta post-secondary …

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Student Researcher Program (Google DeepMind)

A paid, in-person research placement that embeds enrolled Bachelor's, Master's and PhD students onto active Google DeepMind, Googl…

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Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech's at-scale online master's in computer science, built for working professionals. All required courses and activities …

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Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Analytics (OMS Analytics)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Deadline: Rolling; Spring entry standard June 15, final August 1

An interdisciplinary online analytics degree jointly delivered by Georgia Tech, requiring a minimum of 36 credit hours across 12 c…

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Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Cybersecurity (OMS Cybersecurity)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Deadline: Rolling; Spring 2027 standard June 15, 2026, final August 1, 2026

A 32-credit-hour, 10-course online cybersecurity master’s awarding the same degree as Georgia Tech’s on-campus programme. Students…

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UT Austin Online Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS)

The University of Texas at Austin

Deadline: Fall: priority March 15, final April 15. Spring: priority August 1, final September 1

A fully online, 30-credit-hour data science master’s jointly administered by UT Austin’s Department of Statistics and Data Science…

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UT Austin Online Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCSO)

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…

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UT Austin Online Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI)

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…

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Illinois Online Master of Computer Science (MCS and MCS-DS)

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…

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UC Berkeley Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS)

University of California, Berkeley

A 27-unit online data science master’s from the UC Berkeley School of Information, combining weekly live Zoom classes with asynchr…

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University of Michigan Master of Applied Data Science (MADS)

University of Michigan

A 38-credit, 100% online, cohort-based data science master’s taught by faculty from the University of Michigan School of Informati…

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CU Boulder Master of Science in Data Science (Coursera)

University of Colorado Boulder

A 30-credit-hour online data science master’s delivered entirely on Coursera, priced at $525 per credit hour for $15,750 in total.…

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Northeastern Align MS in Computer Science (Online)

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…

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Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Online MS in Artificial Intelligence

Johns Hopkins University

An online artificial intelligence master’s from Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, spanning machine learning and natural…

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Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Online MS in Data Science

Johns Hopkins University

An online data science master’s from Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals with no GRE required, built on a foundation of co…

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Pathways to Quantum Computing Internship Program (PQCIP)

A ten-week paid research experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory run by the Quantum Science Center for graduate students in qu…

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Los Alamos Applied Machine Learning Summer Research Fellowship

Deadline: January 16

A ten-week paid fellowship beginning in early June at Los Alamos National Laboratory, aimed at graduate students and advanced unde…

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Census-NSF Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP)

A graduate research internship run jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation, placing graduate student…

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PhD Programs (20)

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DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF)

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…

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Meta Research PhD Fellowship

Meta

A two-year fellowship for exceptional PhD students conducting research in areas relevant to Meta's research agenda, including AI, …

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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program

NVIDIA

Deadline: September

Up to $60,000 for PhD students doing outstanding research in computing, AI, graphics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Now…

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Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship

Microsoft Research

Fellowship for second-year PhD students from underrepresented groups in computing including women. Covers tuition and fees for thr…

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Microsoft Research Internship

Microsoft Research

Deadline: November

Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in AI, machine…

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Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF)

A competitive fellowship for PhD students at participating North American, European, and Asian universities working in AI, machine…

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Two Sigma PhD Fellowship

Deadline: September

A fellowship for doctoral students expanding the frontiers of a STEM field such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer scien…

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Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship

A fellowship for full-time doctoral students working in data science and related fields including natural language processing, mac…

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Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship

Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two years of f…

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Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship

Jane Street

A fellowship for PhD students in EECS, mathematics, physics, or statistics, providing full tuition and fees plus a $45,000 stipend…

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ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

An annual award from the Association for Computing Machinery recognizing the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and c…

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ASA Jean Dickinson Gibbons Endowed Scholarships

Deadline: March 1

An American Statistical Association scholarship for outstanding PhD students working in applied statistics. Named for statistician…

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Funded United Kingdom

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems

University of Manchester

A four-year UKRI-supported doctoral training programme run jointly by the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge…

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Funded United Kingdom

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems Transformed by AI (SUSTAIN)

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 …

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Funded United Kingdom

UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion

University of Surrey

A UKRI doctoral training centre led by the University of Surrey with Royal Holloway, University of London, researching artificial …

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Funded United Kingdom

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability (SustAI)

University of Southampton

A UKRI AI doctoral training centre based in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, training researcher…

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Funded Other

Helmholtz International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS)

Technische Universitat Berlin

One of the Helmholtz Information and Data Science research schools, based in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany. Doctoral researchers are…

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Funded Other

MarDATA - Helmholtz School for Marine Data Science

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

A Helmholtz Information and Data Science research school training doctoral researchers in marine data science, run by GEOMAR in Ki…

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Funded Other

HIDSS4Health - Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

A Helmholtz Information and Data Science research school in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg, Germany, training doctoral researchers to be…

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Funded Other

HDS-LEE - Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy

Forschungszentrum Julich

A Helmholtz Information and Data Science research school based at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany, with partners including RWT…

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Frequently Asked Questions

What cybersecurity scholarships are available for women?

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.

Are there cybersecurity bootcamps specifically for women?

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.

What certifications and training programs support women in cybersecurity?

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.

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