Overview

The Horizon Fellows Program (formerly known as the Pre-Doctoral Program) is designed to increase access to promising graduate students. Horizon Fellowships are awarded to regularly admitted graduate students who would benefit from an extra year of academic training. In the first year, Horizon Fellows work directly with a faculty adviser to design an individualized academic plan that is meant to enhance research experience, language work, or theoretical training for graduate study.

Eligibility

All interested applicants for regular admission are invited to apply for consideration. Interested students are strongly encouraged to visit the FAQ page.

Horizon Fellows Benefits

Full funding for academic year (tuition and stipend) from the Horizon Fellowship

Horizon Fellows are invited to participate in the Graduate Scholars Program (GSP), a cohort-based community for incoming students from diverse backgrounds designed to enhance and support academic, social, and community development during their initial graduate school experience.

Applications Open in September

How to Apply

• Applicants are required to complete and submit an application to the PhD program of interest.
• For more information about applying to Princeton and all eligibility requirements please go to the following link: https://gradschool.princeton.edu/admission/applying-princeton. 

Within the regular admission PhD application, applicants must select "yes" to the "Are you interested in being considered for the Horizon Fellows Program" question. If you answer 'yes,' you will then be prompted to briefly explain why you are interested in being considered for the Horizon Fellows Program. [500 words max].

Your response can address any of the following questions:

How would you benefit from the program? What would you want to accomplish during the program? What skills would you want to enhance during the program?

Note: Your answer to these questions will have no impact on the admission process for the department to which you are applying and does not finalize enrollment in the Horizon Fellows Program.

Participating Departments

Specific departments are participating in this program, therefore only those departmental applications will include the Horizon Fellows Program question.

At this time the participating departments include: