Fellowships for Graduate Study

US Awards

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Ford Foundation Fellowships
The Ford Fellowship seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University
Knight-Hennessy Scholars develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.

James Madison Memorial Fellowship
The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers $24,000 James Madison Graduate Fellowships to individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution at the secondary school level.

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) awards fellowships for graduate study dependent on availability of funds.

National Science Foundation Research Fellowships
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.

Payne International Development Fellowship (U.S. Agency for International Development)
The Payne Fellowship encourages the application of members of minority groups who historically have been underrepresented in international development careers and those with financial need

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, attracts and prepares outstanding young people for Foreign Service careers in the U.S. State Department. The fellowship provides graduate students with financial support, mentoring and professional development.

Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program
The Rangel Graduate Fellowship is a program that aims to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State in which they can help formulate, represent and implement U.S. foreign policy.

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Every year, The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports 30 new Americans, immigrants or the children of immigrants, who are pursuing graduate school in the United States.

Harry S. Truman Scholarship
The Truman Scholarship is a highly competitive, merit-based award offered to U.S. citizens who want to go to graduate school in preparation for a career in public service.

International Awards

Boren Fellowship
Boren Fellowships add an important international and language component to graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency.

Critical Language Scholarships
The Critical Language Scholarships program seeks participants from a variety of fields, backgrounds and career paths, with the goal of building a cadre of Americans who speak critical languages at high levels in government, business, arts and culture, science and engineering, health and medicine, education, research and other fields.

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
The DAAD, or German Academic Exchange Service, is the gateway to a large number of German academic programs and scholarships for postsecondary study at all levels in Germany.

Davies-Jackson Scholarship
Scholars are admitted as affiliated students and have the opportunity to take the more advanced parts of a Cambridge degree course and qualify for a Cambridge bachelor of arts in two years instead of the usual three.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs.

Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.

Marshall Scholarship
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom.

Mitchell Scholarship
The Mitchell Scholarship is designed to introduce and connect future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering academic excellence, leadership and a commitment to public service.

NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholars Program
The National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program is an accelerated, individualized doctoral training program for outstanding science students committed to biomedical research careers.

Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship provides funding for a two- to three-year postgraduate degree at Oxford University for U.S. and Commonwealth students.

Rotary Scholarships
Rotary Club scholarships are given by individual clubs and are open to anyone except Rotary members and their families.

Schwarzman Scholars Program
Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.