Our Education for Underrepresented Groups Program has three components:

• The Minority Ph.D. Program

The goal of this Program is to increase the number of under-represented minority Ph.D.s in mathematics, science and engineering by 100 per year. For comparison, the National Science Foundation reports that 865 underrepresented minority students received Ph.D.s in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering in 2005. This program operates at selected universities around the country.

• The American Indian Graduate Program

The goal of this Program is to increase the number of American Indian students earning MS and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics, science and engineering. This program operates at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana Tech in Butte and Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.

• Other Especially Promising Projects with a National Focus.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation occasionally supports especially promising projects with a national focus that promote the advancement of women or underrepresented minorities in mathematics, science and engineering and that are unrelated to our Minority PhD and American Indian Graduate Programs.

Selected Especially Promising Projects that Advance Women or Minorities
a listing of current and recent projects and contact information for the project directors

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does NOT make grants to individual minority or women students to support their education except through our Minority Ph.D. Program.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does NOT make grants to support projects at the pre-college level to advance women or minorities in science and engineering.