CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (formerly CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, SFS)
National Science Foundation (with the Office of Personnel Management)
Tuition and fees plus a $27,000 (undergrad) or $37,000 (grad) yearly stipend and a $6,000 professional allowance, for up to 3 years, for cybersecurity/AI students who then work for government
- How much
- tuition & fees + $27,000/yr (undergrad) or $37,000/yr (grad) stipend + $6,000/yr professional allowance, up to 3 years
- Who qualifies
- Full-time in a coherent formal AI or cybersecurity program at a participating school: sophomore standing in an associate's program, junior/senior in a bachelor's, a master's student, or a research-based doctoral student. Background investigation. Service: post-graduation government work equal to the scholarship length.
- For undergrads, grad students
- For cybersecurity or AI (formal program at a participating institution) students
- U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
- When to apply
- Apply any time Set by each participating institution; no national deadline
- How to apply
- Apply through a participating college (each runs its own selection)
- Find schools on the SFS Participating Institutions list at sfs.opm.gov
- Last checked
- October 5, 2026, against the official page (sfs.opm.gov), page 2 and page 3
The details
Scholarships run through participating colleges with NSF grants. Each scholar gets tuition and mandatory education-related fees (not meal plans, housing, or parking), an academic-year stipend of $27,000 (undergraduate) or $37,000 (graduate), and a $6,000-a-year professional allowance (job fairs, travel, books, a one-time laptop, certifications). Up to three years of support. Afterward you must work in a cybersecurity or AI role for a federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial government organization (or an approved FFRDC) for as long as the scholarship lasted. If you don't, you repay it or it converts to a loan. Merit-based, not need-based.
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- Jack Kent Cooke College Scholarship Programup to $55,000/yr for up to 4 years (last-dollar after institutional aid)
- Davidson Fellows Scholarship$100,000, $50,000, or $25,000 (one-time)
- Burger King Scholars Program$1,000 to $60,000 (most general-track awards $1,000 or $5,000; up to three $60,000 James W. McLamore WHOPPER Scholarships)
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$37,000/yr stipend + $16,000/yr cost-of-education allowance to the school, for 3 years
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