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Fellowships For International Students

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The following document - initially compiled by the National Association of Fellowship Advisors and updated for Wabash in July 2016 - contains information about a vast array of fellowships and scholarships which are open to non-U.S. students.  They range from the highly specific (in terms of student's home country or area of study) to much more wide open opportunities, such as the Gates-Cambridge, Oxford Clarendon, Schwarzman and Rhodes Scholarships, and the Carnegie Junior Fellows Program. 
 

International Students Scholarship Opportunities




Also check out featured fellowship opportunities for international students below:

Fellowship / Foundation Description

Carnegie Junior Fellows Program

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Each year the endowment offers approximately 10-12 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 400 participating colleges. Carnegie junior fellows work as research assistants to the endowment's senior associates. Current projects include: China Studies; Democracy and Rule of Law; Economics-Asia Program; Energy and Climate; Japan Studies; Middle East Studies; Nuclear Policy; Russian and Eurasian Studies; South Asian Studies; Southeast Asian Studies.

CHCI Public Policy Fellowship Program

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI)

Paid fellowship for recent college graduates which opens doors for talented young Latinos who are pursuing a career in public policy. Provides significant exposure to leaders in congressional offices, federal agencies, national nonprofit advocacy organizations, government-related institutes. Fellows immerse themselves in the legislative process, spending four days each week learning all facets of public policy. On Fridays, they join other fellows for a full day of leadership development centered on CHCI’s four Pillars of Leadership—Civic Engagement, Social Responsibility, Self Empowerment, and Promoting Community and Hispanic Culture.

DAAD Rise

German Federal Foreign Office

RISE stands for Research Internships in Science and Engineering. RISE Germany offers undergraduate students from North American, British and Irish universities the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and research institutions.

Students are matched with a host university or institute according to their area of interest (biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, engineering, or a closely related field)

German language is not required and the working language will be in English

DAAD Study Scholarship (Graduate)

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service

168体育平台下载_足球即时比分-注册|官网ly qualified final year undergraduate students or those who have received an undergraduate degree of all disciplines may apply for the DAAD Study Scholarship for a full Master's degree program at a German university or for study at a German university as part of a postgraduate or Master's degree program completed in the home country. Study Scholarships are granted for one academic year with the possibility of a one-year extension for those wishing to complete a full degree program in Germany.

Echoing Green Fellowships

Echoing Green

Echoing Green’s world-renowned two-year Fellowship program provides more than $2 million in seed funding to a diverse group of the world’s most promising social entrepreneurs. Echoing Green Fellows are the innovators, instigators, pioneers, and rebels that reject the status quo and drive positive social change all over the world. While their work, their geographies, and even their approaches may be as varied as the problems they are working to solve, their common passion and commitment form the base of this robust, active community of leaders. Echoing Green Fellows work on six continents, on issues such as economic development, education, environmental sustainability, health, hunger & poverty alleviation, justice & human rights, racial & gender equity.

Gates-Cambridge Scholarship

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Gates Cambridge Scholarships are highly competitive, full-cost scholarships awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK. They are for the pursuit of a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.

Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Stanford University

Knight-Hennessy Scholars cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students from across Stanford University, and delivers engaging experiences that prepare graduates to be visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders who address complex challenges facing the world.

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Each year, we invest in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture or their academic field. Each Fellow receives up to $90,000 in financial support over two years, and they join a lifelong community of New American Fellows.

Rhodes Scholarship (non-US applicants)

Rhodes Trust

The oldest and most celebrated international fellowship in the world, the Rhodes Scholarship offers 32 awards annually to US applicants. The fellowship competition is now also fully global by virtue of its additional national and regional constituencies and its two open Global Awards. Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead. The scholarship offers recipients 2 years of academic study at the University of Oxford.

Schwarzman Scholarship

Schwarzman Scholars

Apply for a one-year, fully-funded master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed to build a global community of future leaders who will serve to deepen understanding between China and the rest of the world.
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