Reduce your graduate education costs and gain unparalleled professional experience with a fellowship at Merrimack College.
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Merrimack is committed to making your master’s degree affordable while providing you with immersive, hands-on paraprofessional experiences. Our graduate fellowships offer:
Offered in most of our master’s degree programs, these competitive fellowship opportunities put your career on the fast-track while providing a tuition discount of 50-100%.
You’ll build your professional experience while saving thousands on tuition. Fellowships offer unparalleled opportunities for developing high-level, real-world skills in your field of expertise.
With the guidance of experienced site-based supervisors and Merrimack faculty mentors, you’ll have the support you need to excel in your field placement and in your graduate studies.
Merrimack offers three graduate fellowships. Explore fellowship opportunities by school to determine details and types of fellowships available. Looking for scholarship info?
The Presidential Fellowship provides 100% of a student’s graduate tuition and includes a 9-month, 25 hour per week, unpaid fellowship placement. Please note:
The Provost Fellowship provides 50% of a student’s graduate tuition and includes a 9-month, 15 hour per week, unpaid fellowship placement. Please note:
This K-12 Teacher Education Fellowship provides a non-credit fellowship course and a full-time, 9-month placement. This off-campus fellowship and placement provides intensive clinical experience and will provide training and experience in the education area in which the student is enrolled and is intended for the educational benefit of the student. Please note:
Our education and social policy fellowships allow you to work at the College or a partner institution where you’ll get first-rate professional experience and build skills that set you apart in the job market.
Merrimack College’s one-of-a-kind health sciences fellowships offer a hands-on experience that you can’t get in a classroom. You’ll work in a professional practice while enjoying a reduction in your tuition.
You can earn while you learn via one of Merrimack’s fellowships in the School of Arts & Sciences. These competitive awards provide supervised work experience with a tuition discount.
Merrimack’s Engineering & Computational Sciences fellowships seek to enrich professional qualifications and help advance career goals through valuable hands-on experience while covering the cost of tuition for highly qualified graduate students.
Merrimack College was recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education as the 10th fastest-growing private nonprofit institution in the Master’s category. In the last 10 years, Merrimack’s graduate enrollment has increased 148%.
Wide receiver and kick return specialist Donovan Wadley ’26 was named to the preseason watch list for the 2024 Walter Payton Award. He becomes the first player in Merrimack College history to be named to the preseason list for the award presented annually to the national offensive player of the year in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision.