04 April 2022

The NSF GRFP problem, 2022 edition

NSF GRFP logo
I am not even in the US any more so should not care about this, but...

The National Science Foundation announced the 2,193 awardees of their Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards and yet again, some single institutions outperformed entire American states.

83 awards went to students from one institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

61 awards went to students in the entire University of Texas system.

This seems biased. But I don’t know what the applicant pool looks like because NSF don’t release that data.

I don’t have bandwidth to do more analysis, but check out the links before for some previous years.

Related posts

NSF GRFP award skew in 2021
The NSF GRFP problem, 2020 edition
The NSF GRFP problem continues (2018)
Fewer shots, more diversity? (2016)

 

 

 

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