Prospective Students

Competitive funding for graduate study in the UCLA Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program (AP) is provided through UCLA Graduate Division as well as through funding generously provided by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Students may also be supported through teaching assistantships in campus departments, providing students with valuable experience that will assist them in developing their own scholarly careers. Competitive funding is also available to students who wish to pursue specialized laboratory training in other campus or off-campus venues for the purposes of their dissertation research. Additional competitive funding is also available to entering students through Graduate Division Fellowships and Programs. Additional extramural support for prospective graduate students can be found through the UCLA GRAPES.

Students are particularly encouraged to apply for support through the competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP), due in early November and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program, due in early October.

Foreign students are encouraged to learn about and apply for Fulbright funding from their country of origin. The Fulbright program is designed for foreign students to attend graduate programs in the U.S. Please keep in mind that the deadline to apply for Fulbright may be much earlier than the deadline for the application to the Archaeology Program.

Current Students

For continuing students, please consult the individual Web pages of relevant agencies for funding opportunities:

• Fulbright
• Fulbright-Hays
• National Science Foundation
• Social Science Research Council
• Wenner-Gren Foundation

Additional extramural support for continuing students can be found through the UCLA GRAPES searchable funding database.