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Access to Excellence Fellowship

We announced 2025 recruitment fellowship recipients on March 14th. See the "News" section of our website.

Programs are encouraged to nominate an eligible individual for the both the Access and the University Fellowship, if eligible.

New for the 2025 competition:

*Stipend levels have been raised to $33,000

*The Graduate College will no longer offer summer "top-offs" for the recruitment fellowship

*The retention round is suspended.

*To encourage our strong students to stay at UIC for their graduate studies, for the Spring 2025 competition, we would like half of the fellows to be UIC students/alumni.

*Each graduate program is limited to TWO nominations regardless of program size.

Spring 2024 recipients

The goal of the Access to Excellence Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago is to increase the number of students in graduate education who enter careers as researchers and college faculty.

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Recruitment Fellowship Deadline: 4 pm CT on February 3, 2025