Applicants must apply for the Division of Graduate Education Awards through the Application for Graduate Admission and be nominated by the prospective academic program for consideration.

Awards are competitive and nominations are reviewed by a campus-wide faculty committee. Awardees must maintain satisfactory progress throughout the award tenure.

UCLA seeks to achieve a student body and faculty which is inclusive of individuals from all cultural, linguistic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our commitment to academic excellence places a high value on sustaining the diversity of experience and perspective which is critical in promoting lively intellectual exchange and the breadth of new ideas that are essential for creative research and scholarship.