NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

Key Facts

Status: Forecasted

Posted date: March 25, 2026

Close date: May 19, 2026

Opportunity ID: 361626

Opportunity number: O-NIJ-2025-172575

Opportunity category: Discretionary

Agency name: National Institute of Justice

Agency code: USDOJ-OJP-NIJ

Award floor: $0

Award ceiling: $180,000

Cost sharing required: No

Funding Instrument Types
  • Grant
Category of Funding Activity
  • Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Eligible Applicants
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
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Categories (use these for quoted searches)
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  • category_of_funding_activity:science_and_technology_and_other_research_and_development
  • cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
  • eligible_applicants:private_institutions_of_higher_education
  • eligible_applicants:public_and_state_controlled_institutions_of_higher_education
  • funding_instrument_type:grant
  • opportunity_category:discretionary
  • status:forecasted
Description

This NOFO seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, protecting the border, enforcing the law, promoting public safety, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. This furthers the DOJ mission by increasing the pool of researchers who are engaged in providing science-based solutions to problems relevant to criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice in the United States.

NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship
This NOFO seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, protecting the border, enforcing the law, promoting public safety, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. This furthers the DOJ mission by increasing the pool of researchers who are engaged in providing science-based solutions to problems relevant to criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice in the United States.
[Forecasted] NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship
Forecasted
National Institute of Justice
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Grant
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
2026-03-25