Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship Competition

UC San Diego's Graduate Division has received notice of the call for applications from eligible graduate students for the 2025-26 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship.

In 1988 the University received a bequest from the late Mr. Karam Singh Maughan to establish an endowment to support graduate fellowships (named for Guru Gobind Singh, the Sikh religious leader) to be awarded to graduates of universities in a specific area of India and Pakistan for the purpose of pursuing graduate study at the University of California.

For AY 2025-26, the amount of the Singh Fellowship award will be $30,000.

Eligibility:

Be a graduate of an Indian or Pakistani university in the designated area

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Eligibility Cont'd:

• Be committed to returning to her or his country of origin after receiving the degree;

• Have not engaged previously in graduate study at any other institution of higher learning in the United States.

• Students at any stage of graduate study may be nominated.

• Preference will be given to students already holding the master's degree, as well as to those who have reached the dissertation stage, and especially to those who have exhausted the normal sources of financial support.