What "funded" and "accepting" mean

Two status labels appear on supervisor profiles in Scholr: Funded and Accepting. Here's what they mean and how reliable they are.

Funded

This label indicates that the supervisor has active research grants, based on publicly available grant databases and lab pages. A funded supervisor has the financial capacity to support new students — this is a necessary but not sufficient condition for taking on a student in any given cycle.

Accepting

This label indicates that the supervisor has recently posted an explicit statement on their lab page or in an advertisement that they are currently seeking new graduate students or postdocs.

How current is this information?

Scholr pulls this data from public sources and refreshes it periodically, but it may not reflect the most recent state of a professor's lab. A supervisor labeled "Accepting" may have filled their open position last week. A supervisor without either label may be actively looking but have not publicly posted.

Always verify directly. These labels are signals to prioritise outreach — they are not guarantees. The only way to know for certain whether a supervisor is open to new students is to reach out and ask.