NVIDIA opens 2027–2028 graduate fellowship applications with awards up to $60,000 and a required summer 2027 internship

The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program, now in its 26th year, is accepting worldwide applications for the 2027–2028 academic year, supporting students in AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, robotics, healthcare, high-performance computing and related fields. This is the program's new annual cycle, listing its focus areas and opening applications globally rather than reporting a new research result. Based on the program announcement itself, which directly states the focus areas and the global application opening; no experiment or dataset is involved.

Each selected student can receive up to $60,000 in funding, along with mentors and technical support. The announcement specifies the award ceiling and the forms of support for this cycle, helping applicants gauge the scale of the resources. The amount and support forms are stated directly in the announcement text as program terms rather than research findings.

Since its start in 2002, the program has awarded over 220 grants worth around $8 million. The announcement provides the program's cumulative historical scale, indicating its long-running status. This is a cumulative figure published by the program; the text gives no year-by-year breakdown or data on recipients' later outcomes.

Applicants must have completed at least their first year of Ph.D.-level studies, the application deadline is October 30, 2026, and an in-person internship at an NVIDIA research office preceding the fellowship year is mandatory, with eligible candidates required to be available in summer 2027. The announcement sets out the eligibility threshold, timeline and internship prerequisite, forming the concrete conditions applicants must meet. Eligibility and timing requirements are listed directly in the announcement as program rules.

This announcement applies to doctoral students who plan to apply for 2027–2028 funding, have completed at least their first year of Ph.D.-level studies, and can take part in an in-person internship at an NVIDIA research office in summer 2027; the focus areas are AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, robotics, healthcare, high-performance computing and related fields. For readers, it can be used to judge eligibility, prepare materials and note the October 30, 2026 deadline.

The announcement does not describe review criteria, the number of awards, whether funding is renewable, or how the internship connects to the fellowship, and it provides no information on recipients' later research outcomes; readers needing those details would still need to consult the program website.