December 05, 2012

NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers scholarships to undergraduate students from disadvantaged backgrounds who will pursue careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers scholarships to undergraduate students from disadvantaged backgrounds who will pursue careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. The Undergraduate Scholarship Program funds $20,000 for one year, renewable for up to four years. After each year, recipients must participate in a 10-week summer program as a paid research employee in an NIH research laboratory and, after graduating, must serve one year of full-time employment at one such NIH research laboratory for every year of funding received.

Eligibility: Applicants must be US citizens (or qualified noncitizens) or are enrolled to accepted as a full-time student at a 4-year US undergraduate institution. Applicants must also have at least a 3.3 GPA on a 4.0 scale and demonstrate exception financial need.

Deadline: March 14, 2017. (Applications open January 3, 2017.)