Grants and Writing Resources for Fuller Theological Seminary

Fuller students and doctoral candidates presented and sat on panels at the 2025 AAR/SBL Annual Meetings, held in Boston on November 22–25. Alumni Relations hosted a breakfast during the meetings that drew nearly 80 students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Scholarships by Program

Admitted students fill out one Universal Scholarship Application to see which awards they qualify for. Terms differ by degree. In the PhD in Intercultural Studies, scholarships for incoming students may cover 90 percent of tuition for up to three years. The PhD in Clinical Psychology offers merit scholarships from $1,000 to $45,000 and a need-based scholarship of up to 15 percent of tuition. Incoming students in the Korean-language PhD in intercultural theology can be nominated by the program chair for the IMPACT Scholarship, and the Centro Latino Scholarship can cover up to 30 percent of tuition in the Spanish-language MDiv and MATM cohort.

In October 2025 Fuller announced five new named scholarship funds for seminarians in every program and degree level. One of them, the Paul & Linda Schultheis Scholarship, appears in the scholarship search at $3,888 per academic year.

Conference Stipends and Doctoral Colloquia

The Student Engagement Office pays a Conference Stipend once per academic year. Under the 2026-27 Academic Catalog, a student presenting a paper at a conference in their field receives $200, and a student attending receives $100.

Doctoral students in the School of Mission and Theology bring articles prepared for publication to the Center for Missiological Research colloquia, where faculty and peers critique them. Once a quarter the group meets as the Salon Missiologique in a faculty member's home. Students can apply to shadow faculty as Instructors in Training, and the center works with the Center for Advanced Theological Studies to teach students about getting published. In psychology, students join faculty-led labs at the Travis Research Institute, among them the Adversity, Trauma, and Resilience lab and a lab studying how cultural and religious values affect emotional processes in psychotherapy.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center is in Room 115 on the first floor of the Hubbard Library in Pasadena and holds consultations online and in person. Current students get up to 90 minutes of one-on-one time a week during the quarter and up to 10 asynchronous paper reviews a month. Consultants mark places to improve spelling, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure, and clarity, and the student does the revising.

Consultants help with writing in Spanish, Korean and English. Through writing support, doctoral students in the School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy can also book APA compliance reviews of their dissertations.

Dissertations and Doctoral Projects

Questions on page setup and fonts start with the program's academic administrator. After that, the Center for Missiological Research handles the DGL, the ThM in Intercultural Studies and the PhD in Intercultural Studies; the Center for Advanced Theological Studies handles the DMin, ThM and PhD in Theology; and the School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy handles its doctoral programs. The Intercultural Studies dissertation runs about 75,000 words and goes to the advisory committee and an outside reader.

Approved PhD and PsyD dissertations and DMin projects are submitted to the library's Digital Archives as a PDF with an abstract of 300 words or fewer. Korean Studies Center and Centro Latino degrees have separate forms, and processing takes six to eight weeks. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global also carries digitized Fuller dissertations as downloadable PDFs.

Fuller papers, DMin projects and dissertations written in English can come to our editors for a final edit for grammar, consistency and format before submission. See our Fuller Theological Seminary dissertation and thesis editing and Fuller Theological Seminary essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.

From Our Writing Guides

• ESL Academic Writing: Overcoming Common Grammar Habits
• Literature Synthesis: Moving Beyond the Summary toward Authority
• Writing the Abstract and Title: First Impressions Matter