Google PhD Fellowship Program
Annual corporate doctoral fellowship covering tuition, stipend, travel and research costs for PhD students in computing and adjacent fields, relevant to social work doctoral students doing computational, HCI or data-science-heavy dissertations.
- Indicative award
- $10k–$85k per year (per year)Award value varies sharply by region as published: up to $85,000 per year for up to 2 years in Canada/US; up to $50,000 for up to 4 years for early-stage India students; $10,000-$15,000 annually in Africa and Southeast Asia; $10,000-$20,000 for one year in Australia/New Zealand/East Asia; country-sp
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Mar, AprNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Published 2026 cycle: opened 5 March 2026, closed 30 April 2026, decisions by 31 August 2026, public announcement by 31 October 2026. That cycle has closed; the next equivalent window would be spring 2027 but no 2027 date is published, so no future deadline is recorded.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- Students cannot apply directly: an accredited research university that grants PhDs in computer science or an adjacent field must nominate them. Applicants must stay enrolled full time for the fellowship period, cannot be Google employees or immediate family, cannot hold a comparable industry award, and cannot be a prior recipient. Stage-of-study rules differ by region (US/Canada require graduate coursework completed by the award year).
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- computer science · human-computer interaction · machine learning · doctoral training
- Apply at
- https://research.google/programs-and-events/phd-fellowship/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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