Sponsor Deadline
Posted: 4/25/2024

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program CFDA Number 84.200A

The GAANN Program provides grants to academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support graduate fellowships for students with excellent academic records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course of study at the institution.

Deadline: June 24, 2024

Areas of Interest

A project must provide fellowships in one or more of the following areas of national need. For the following academic areas, the project must provide fellowships for programs that lead either to a master’s degree or a doctoral degree, whichever is the highest degree awarded in the area of need at the institution. 

Computer and Information Sciences (11) 11.01 Computer and Information Sciences, General 11.02 Computer Programming 11.04 Information Sciences and Systems 11.05 Computer Systems Analysis 11.07 Computer Science 

Education 13.02 Bilingual/Bicultural Education 13.10 Special Education 13.11 Student Counseling and Personnel Services 13.14 Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language 

Engineering 14.01 Engineering, 14.02 Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering 14.03 Agricultural Engineering 14.04 Architectural Engineering 14.05 Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering 14.06 Ceramic Sciences and Engineering 14.07 Chemical Engineering 14.08 Civil Engineering 14.09 Computer Engineering 14.10 Electrical, Electronic, and Communications Engineering 14.11 Engineering Mechanics 14.12 Engineering Physics 14.13 Engineering Science 14.14 Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering 14.15 Geological Engineering 14.16 Geophysical Engineering 14.17 Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering 14.18 Materials Engineering 14.19 Mechanical Engineering 14.20 Metallurgical Engineering 14.21 Mining and Mineral Engineering 14.22 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 14.23 Nuclear Engineering 14.24 Ocean Engineering 14.25 Petroleum Engineering 14.27 Systems Engineering 14.28 Textile Sciences and Engineering 14.29 Engineering Design 14.30 Engineering/Industrial Management 14.31 Materials Science 14.32 Polymer/Plastics Engineering 

Biological Sciences/Life Sciences 26.01 Biology, General 26.02 Biochemistry and Biophysics 26.03 Botany 26.04 Cell and Molecular Biology 26.05 Microbiology/Bacteriology 26.06 Miscellaneous Biological Specializations 26.07 Zoology 

Mathematics 27.01 Mathematics 27.03 Applied Mathematics 27.05 Mathematic Statistics 

Physical Sciences 40.01 Physical Sciences, General 40.02 Astronomy 40.03 Astrophysics 40.04 Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology 40.05 Chemistry 40.06 Geological and Related Sciences 40.07 Miscellaneous Physical Sciences 40.08 Physics 

Psychology 42.01 Psychology 42.02 Clinical Psychology 42.03 Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics 42.04 Community Psychology 42.06 Counseling Psychology 42.07 Developmental and Child Psychology 42.08 Experimental Psychology 42.09 Industrial and Organizational Psychology 42.11 Physiological Psychology/ Psychobiology 42.16 Social Psychology 42.17 School Psychology 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: Promoting Equity in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities (1 point). Under this priority, an applicant must demonstrate that the project will be implemented by one or more of the following entities: (1) Historically Black colleges and universities (as defined in this notice). (2) Tribal Colleges and Universities (as defined in this notice). (3) Minority-serving institutions (as defined in this notice). 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2024 and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, this priority is an invitational priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not give an application that meets this invitational priority a competitive or absolute preference over other applications. This priority is: Projects designed to increase the number of low-income students in graduate fellowships. 

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants: (a) Any academic department of an IHE that provides a course of study that--(i) Leads to a graduate degree in an area of national need; and (ii) Has been in existence for at least four years at the time of an application for a grant under this competition. (b) Eligible applicants may apply alone or in partnership with one or more eligible nondegree granting institutions that have formal arrangements for the support of doctoral dissertation research.Note: A formal arrangement under paragraph (b) is a written agreement between a degree-granting institution and an eligible nondegree granting institution whereby the degree-granting institution accepts students from the eligible nondegree granting institution as doctoral degree candidates with the intention of awarding these students doctorates in an area of national need. Note: A school or department of divinity is not eligible for a grant. Note: Students are not eligible to apply for grants under this program.

Amount Description

Minimum and Maximum Award: The amount of a grant to an academic department may not be less than $100,000 and may not be more than $750,000 in a fiscal year (648.5(a)).