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Program Overview

The federally funded TRIO McNair Scholars program seeks to increase doctoral program application, matriculation, and degree attainment by underrepresented and first-generation college students.

Through this summer experience and academic year programming, McNair Scholars develop higher-level academic and research skills necessary to gain admission to and successfully complete graduate study.

• 10-week summer research apprenticeships with a University faculty mentor whose research interests match those of the McNair student.
• Summer stipend of $6,000.
• 3-course credits offered (EPSY 3002: Engaging the Research Process)
• Weekly seminars on study strategies for graduate school and graduate entrance exam preparation.
• Opportunities to present research at multiple symposiums and a national conference
• Build community with a cohort of McNair scholars
• Year-round seminars and advising services focus on:
  
  • Careers requiring graduate education
  • Successful selection and application to graduate school
  • Financing graduate studies
  • Preparing a successful undergraduate research project proposal
  • Introduction to discipline-specific research and research writing skills, and
    ethical issues in research

Population served:

• Two-thirds of students must be first-generation and income-eligible. One-third of the students may be from groups that are underrepresented in graduate school.
• U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents
• The U of M McNair program is open to all Twin Cities students in all colleges and majors, U of M coordinate campuses (Crookston, Duluth, Rochester), and Minnesota colleges and universities that do not have their own McNair program.

McNair Graduate Application Fee Waiver

For University of Minnesota, please use this link: https://grad.umn.edu/diversity/mcnair-scholars-resources

For a list of schools that accept fee waivers, please refer to this document created by the McNair Scholars Program at Southern Illinois University: https://mcnair.siu.edu/_common/documents/mcnair-scholars-fee-waiver-list-entire-list-032717.pdf