Application Fee Waivers
1. If the application fee represents a financial hardship for an applicant they may qualify for a fee waiver. Our admissions system provides further guidance.
2. We are pleased to offer application fee waivers on the basis of participation in the following programs, fellowships, and events:
- American Geophysical Union Bridge Program (AGU Bridge)
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- AmeriCorps (current participant or recent alum, within the last two years)
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
- APS Bridge Students for Physics
- BTAA
- Cientifico Latino Graduate School Mentorship Program (GSMI)
- Ecological Society of America Diversity Forum
- Gates Millennium Scholars
- HIS Pathways to the Professoriate
- Hot Metal Bridge Program, University of Pittsburgh (HMB)
- Institute of for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
- Laureates & Leaders Program
- Leadership Alliance
- Lewis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP)
- LRDC Undergraduate Research Internship Program (University of Pittsburgh)
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF)
- Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
- Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP)
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM)
- National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
- National Science Foundation - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF-REU)
- National Society for Hispanic Physicists (NSHP)
- National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)
- Peace Corps (current participant or recent alum, within the last two years)
- Pitt 2 Pitt applicant applying to one of the following programs at the University of Pittsburgh: MA in TESOL, MA in Applied Linguistics and/or Hispanic Linguistics, MA in Applied Statistics, MS in Quantitative Economics
- Post-Baccalaureate Research and Education Program (PREP/NIH)
- Project 1000
- PSP – Center for Philosophy program for HPS and Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh)
- Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI)
- Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE/NIH)
- Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Teach for America (current participant or recent alum, within the last two years)
3. We are pleased to offer application fee waivers to the following applicants:
- applicants who have earned or are in the process of earning an undergraduate or graduate degree from a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) within the United States
- Honorably Discharged Veterans and Active Duty members of the U.S. Armed Services
- current University of Pittsburgh staff
4. International applicants: If you are applying through certain outside fellowship organizations, you may be eligible to have your application fee waived.
Admissions
- Overview
- Application
- Department Admissions Requirements
- International Students
- Graduate Certificates
- Application Fee Waivers
- Non-Degree Application
- Ronald E. McNair Scholars Admission Information
