Mathematics programs for women including scholarships for pure math, applied mathematics, statistics, and data science. Covers undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A free two-week residential summer mathematics program at MIT for high-achieving high school students from underrepresented backgr…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Deadline: September
Annual prize recognizing women undergraduates who demonstrate exceptional talent and promise in mathematics. Named after AWM found…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Deadline: February
Annual biographical essay contest in which students interview a woman or gender-minority mathematician and write about their caree…
View details →Mathematical Association of America
Deadline: April
The pinnacle of the AMC competition series — a two-day, nine-hour proof-based exam for approximately 293 top-scoring US high schoo…
View details →Mathematical Association of America
Deadline: November
The nation's leading math competition pipeline for K-12 students, with AMC 8, AMC 10/12, and AIME serving as qualifying rounds for…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
$8,000 per year for three years ($24,000 total) to propel the research careers of women mathematicians. Founded through a gift by …
View details →An annual research fellowship from the American Mathematical Society for outstanding mathematicians who have held their doctorate …
View details →A fellowship for accomplished K-12 mathematics and science teachers in New York City, providing stipends and a professional commun…
View details →Clay Research Fellowship is a mathematics research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Boston University
Deadline: February
A six-week residential summer program at Boston University encouraging strongly motivated high school students (ages 14-18) to exp…
View details →Ross Mathematics Foundation
A six-week intensive residential summer program designed to encourage motivated pre-college students to explore mathematics throug…
View details →Mathematics Foundation of America
Deadline: February
A five-week academic summer program for mathematically talented middle and high school students (ages 13-18) from around the world…
View details →A free five-week summer program from Jane Street for graduating high school seniors who have faced barriers to advanced STEM educa…
View details →Free online team mathematics competition for middle and high school students, held annually since 2003 with worldwide participatio…
View details →Long-running math contest program for grades 4-12 with school-based regular-season contests, an international summer tournament, a…
View details →Free, proof-based take-home math competition for US middle and high school students, giving over a month per round and personalize…
View details →The world's most prestigious mathematics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1959 with national teams c…
View details →International mathematics olympiad exclusively for high-school female students, started in 2012 and now including 60+ countries.…
View details →UK charity running mathematics challenges and olympiads for hundreds of thousands of students annually, plus team challenges, ment…
View details →An intensive residential summer programme in discovery-based advanced mathematics for high school students, in which participants …
View details →A six-week intensive residential encounter with college-level mathematics for talented and highly motivated high school students, …
View details →Stanford University
A Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies summer programme in advanced pure mathematics for high school students, taught through lectures,…
View details →A Cambridge, Massachusetts nonprofit math club for girls, built around small-group mentoring by women who use mathematics in their…
View details →A residential summer mathematics programme for middle-school-age students who are strong at mathematics, offering courses in numbe…
View details →A residential summer programme in advanced mathematics for exceptionally mathematically talented younger students, introducing rig…
View details →Texas State University
An intensive multi-summer residential mathematics programme at Texas State University's Mathworks, admitting high school students …
View details →Jane Street
Deadline: November
Highly competitive paid internships in software engineering, trading, research, and quantitative finance, providing deep exposure …
View details →Mathematical Association of America
Deadline: December
The most prestigious undergraduate mathematics competition in North America, featuring a notoriously difficult six-hour proof-base…
View details →The Actuarial Foundation
Deadline: February
A renewable scholarship from The Actuarial Foundation supporting high school seniors pursuing careers in mathematics and the actua…
View details →SLMath (formerly MSRI)
Deadline: February
A six-week summer mathematics research program at SLMath (formerly MSRI) in Berkeley for undergraduates who have completed two yea…
View details →Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
An eight-week summer research program run by SIAM and funded by the Simons Foundation, establishing five sites across the United S…
View details →A paid trading internship at the market-making firm Optiver, offering hands-on training in options theory and live-market simulati…
View details →Indiana University Bloomington
Deadline: February 1, 2026
An NSF-funded summer mathematics REU at Indiana University Bloomington where undergraduates work on research projects under facult…
View details →Marshall University
A recurring NSF REU site in mathematics and physics providing a stipend plus paid housing and meal plan for undergraduate research…
View details →Indiana University Indianapolis
Deadline: February
An 8-week NSF REU in applied mathematics and biophysics with research applications in medical sciences, fluid mechanics, and physi…
View details →Deadline: January
Merit scholarships of $5,000 and $2,500 from the Casualty Actuarial Society for full-time undergraduates pursuing an actuarial car…
View details →Deadline: February
The MATHCOUNTS Competition Series is a national middle-school (grades 6-8) mathematics competition progressing through school, cha…
View details →Deadline: Annual; 2026 Challenge weekend Feb 27 - Mar 2, 2026
A free mathematical modeling contest organized by SIAM and sponsored by MathWorks for 11th/12th graders in the U.S. (and sixth-for…
View details →University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
AIM UP is the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, hosting a cohort of under…
View details →Williams College
One of the largest and longest-running undergraduate mathematics research programs, hosting students each summer at Williams Colle…
View details →University of Minnesota Duluth
A long-running NSF mathematics REU at the University of Minnesota Duluth focused on combinatorics and number theory.…
View details →Brown University (ICERM)
An undergraduate summer research program in mathematics at Brown University's ICERM institute.…
View details →Auburn University
Deadline: March 1, 2026
An NSF REU at Auburn University offering undergraduate summer research in algebra and discrete mathematics.…
View details →California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Deadline: 2026-02-15
NSF REU in Computational and Applied Mathematics is a mathematics summer research program at California State Polytechnic Universi…
View details →James Madison University
Deadline: 2026-02-20
An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in mathematics at James Madison University offering mentored summer researc…
View details →Math Prize for Girls is a prestigious mathematics competition for female-identifying high school students, hosted with the MIT com…
View details →The Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament is a student-run mathematics competition drawing top high school teams from around the worl…
View details →Southern Methodist University
An NSF REU with mathematical-modeling and engineering/swarm-systems tracks, showing how engineering and mathematics jointly advanc…
View details →Deadline: Annual - contest weekend late January / early February
MCM/ICM is an international mathematical modeling contest run by COMAP for teams of up to three high school or undergraduate stude…
View details →Deadline: Annual - late May / early June
ARML is an annual team mathematics competition bringing together over 1,800 students on regional teams, held simultaneously at mul…
View details →A 501(c)(3) nonprofit math-problem-solving competition for students in grades 4-8 (Divisions E and M), run since 1979 via paper or…
View details →The U.S. national mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students, running an annual national convention a…
View details →Deadline: September
Scholarships from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute supporting undergraduates at AMSI member universities to complete…
View details →Bursaries from the London Mathematical Society supporting undergraduates registered at UK institutions to undertake a summer resea…
View details →Deadline: March 1 (annual)
An American Statistical Association scholarship of US$5,000 annually for a woman enrolled in, or planning to enrol in, a mathemati…
View details →A scholarship from The Actuarial Foundation for Black/African American, Hispanic, and Native North American students pursuing a de…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Deadline: September
Annual award recognizing outstanding PhD dissertations by female mathematical scientists. Up to three prizes of $500 each presente…
View details →The Simons Dissertation Fellowship supports full-time PhD students in mathematics departments at US institutions who are in the la…
View details →Citadel
Deadline: February 28, 2026
Citadel's Global Quantitative Strategies awards three PhD fellowships (mathematics/statistics, physics, and computer science/elect…
View details →Deadline: March
The Society of Actuaries provides $20,000 annual stipends to doctoral students in actuarial science (or related fields) in the US/…
View details →A professional development programme of the American Mathematical Society giving early-career mathematicians collaborative researc…
View details →The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) offers multiple scholarship and fellowship programs. The Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding undergraduate woman in mathematics. NSF Graduate Research Fellowships fund women in mathematics at the graduate level. Several universities offer named scholarships for women in their math departments.
Yes — MIT MathROOTS (now at mathroots.mit.edu) is a two-week residential program for high-achieving high school students from underrepresented backgrounds. Canada/USA Mathcamp is open to exceptional students aged 13–18. The Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) at Boston University admits talented high schoolers annually.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Mathematical Sciences support early-career mathematicians. The AWM-NSF Travel Grants help women attend conferences. Sloan Research Fellowships ($75,000 each) are awarded to exceptional early-career faculty in mathematics and related fields.