American Indian Graduate Center

4520 Montgomery Blvd. NE
Suite 1-B
Albuquerque, NM 87109
505-881-4584

Award: $250-$10,000

Deadline: June 1 for academic year April 15 for summer classes

The American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) of Albuquerque, NM announces the availability of graduate fellowships for American Indian and Alaskan Native students from federally-recognized U.S. tribes. AIGC was established in 1969 to assist American Indian college graduates who wanted to continue their education at the master's, doctorate and professional degree level and need financial support. American Indians continue to be the least represented of all minority groups in the country in medicine, business, law, the sciences and other fields requiring advanced degrees. AIGC was founded to help open the doors to graduate education for American Indians and to help tribes obtain the educated Indian professionals they need to be-come more self-sufficient and exercise their rights to self-determination.

Qualifcations or Criteria For Applying

1. Student must be a member of a federally recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native group, or possess one-fourth degree federally recognized Indian blood.
2. Student must demonstrate financial need after exhausting avail-able aid at the college financial aid office.
3. Student must pursing a master's or doctorate degree as a full-time student and be attending an accredited graduate school in the United States.