NRSA grants have distinct purposes and support trainees at a range of educational levels. The following chart lists each NIH institutional training grant mechanism by the types of trainees supported. View the mechanisms below for additional specifications of each award.
| Undergraduate | Graduate/Clinical Doctorate | Postdoctoral/Residency | Early Career Faculty |
| T34, T90 | T15, T32, T35, T90 | T15, T32, T90 | T15 |
- T15 Continuing Education Training Grants
GOAL: To assist professional schools to establish, expand, or improve programs of continuing professional education, or refresher education dealing with new developments in the science of technology of the profession.
- T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award
GOAL: To enable institutions to recruit individuals selected by the program leadership for predoctoral and/or postdoctoral research training in specified scientific areas.
- T34 Ruth L. Kirschstein Undergraduate NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants
GOAL: To enhance the undergraduate research training of individuals from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral sciences through Institutional NRSA training grants, in preparation for research doctorate degree programs.
- T35 Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants
GOAL: To provide individuals with research training during off-quarters or summer periods to encourage research careers and/or research in areas of national need.
- T90 Ruth L. Kirschstein Interdisciplinary Research Training Award (T90) Combined Research Education Grant (R90)
GOAL: To support comprehensive interdisciplinary research training programs at the undergraduate, predoctoral and/or postdoctoral levels, by capitalizing on the infrastructure of existing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research programs.