Admitted MEDS Students: Funding and Employment
Fellowships
This year, the Bren School was able to offer general recruitment and diversity fellowship funding to a portion of admitted MEDS students. If you were offered a Bren School fellowship award, it will be listed in your official Bren School admission letter.
Additional scholarship and fellowship information can be found on the following sites:
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UC and UCSB Fellowships and Scholarships: The UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB FinAid Office have several lists of funding opportunities, including campus-wide funding, and University of California opportunities. The UCSB Division of Student Affairs also has a list of scholarships on their website. ScholarshipUniverse is a scholarship matching tool that helps UCSB students find and apply for both internal and external scholarships.
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UCSB Graduate Division Digital Fellowship Library: The Digital Fellowship Library contains samples of successful fellowship applications from your peers and features a wide variety of fellowship proposals. You can filter by award name, award year, field of study, discipline, and document type.
Funding and Employment
UCSB’s Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships provides work-study and loans to supplement the costs of enrollment, and Bren students are successful at securing employment throughout the school year.
The Bren School expects all prospective and current domestic students to submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), available online or at the financial aid office of any college or university in the United States. Please note that due to the program's summer start, students must file FAFSAs for their incoming academic year and the year prior, e.g. a MEDS student starting in Summer 2024 must file a 2023-24 FAFSA and a 2024-25 FAFSA. For information about additional funding support opportunities, please visit the UCSB’s Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships website. These financial aid programs are based entirely on demonstrated financial need. Assistance from the Financial Aid Office is usually offered as a combination package of work-study and direct loans.
More information on Academic Student Employment can be found on the Fellowships & Employment page of the Bren School website as well as the UCSB Graduate Division's Academic Employment page.
Current estimated fee and tuition costs can be found on the Tuition and Finance page.
