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Kansas State University Scholarship 2027 - Up to $76,404
Kansas State University hands out its general university scholarships automatically. Apply for admission by the priority date and you are considered, with no essay and no separate scholarship form. Kansas residents sit on a five-step ladder running from the $1,000 a year 1863 Landmark Award up to the $5,000 a year University Scholar Award. Out-of-state and international freshmen are assessed for the Wildcat Non-Resident Award, which wipes out 50% to 100% of the non-resident portion of tuition and is estimated at $9,551 to $19,101 a year, or $38,204 to $76,404 across four years. Domestic freshmen starting in Fall 2027 apply by 1 December 2026, while transfer and international applicants work to 1 May 2027. Competitive awards such as the $80,000 Presidential Scholarship need a supplemental application by 5 p.m. on 15 December 2026.
Tiffin University Dragon Flight Fellowship 2027
The Dragon Flight Fellowship is Tiffin University's four-year drone technology honors track in Tiffin, Ohio. Fellows earn FAA Part 107 certification in year one, then work real missions with the Ohio EPA, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Seneca County Sheriff and Tiffin Fire/Rescue before finishing with a capstone project. The fellowship itself pays no separate stipend. It is an honors experience layered on top of a Tiffin merit scholarship, which runs from $13,000 to $20,000 a year for 2027-2028, and you must already hold one to be eligible. Applications close February 1.
University of Michigan MBA Scholarships 2027 at Ross
University of Michigan MBA Scholarships are the merit awards attached to admission to the Ross School of Business Full-Time MBA in Ann Arbor. Every admitted applicant is considered automatically, there is no separate scholarship form, and awards run from $10,000 to full tuition. US citizens, permanent residents and international students are all in the pool, and an award is renewable across both years of the programme subject to good academic standing. The scholarship decision arrives with the admission letter, so the date that matters is the Ross application round deadline: Round 2 closes on 4 January 2027 for the class entering in autumn 2027.
International Monetary Fund Internship 2027 in DC
The International Monetary Fund Internship is the Fund Internship Program (FIP), a paid summer placement at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC for current master's and PhD students in economics, and for law students through the Legal Department route. About 50 students join each year from around the world. Internships run for 10 to 12 weeks between June and October, and the IMF pays a salary, round-trip restricted economy class air travel from your university to Washington, and limited medical insurance. Housing is not provided. The IMF publishes no closing date: postings go up on its career site in early December and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
University of Georgia Undergraduate Scholarships 2027
The University of Georgia hands out thousands of academic scholarships every admissions cycle, and almost none of them have an application form. Admitted first-year students are screened automatically for a ladder of awards running from a $2,000 Charter Scholarship up to the Foundation Fellowship, which pays a $15,750 stipend in state and $30,000 for international students on top of a tuition waiver. Out-of-state applicants are scored for the Classic and Classic City awards, which wipe out half or all of the gap between in-state and non-resident tuition. The only deadlines that belong to a scholarship rather than to admission are 1 November for the Foundation Fellowship and 15 January for the CURO Honors Scholarship.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2027 - $37,000 a Year
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is the oldest and best known graduate award in American science. The FY2027 competition pays a $37,000 annual stipend plus a $16,000 cost of education allowance that wipes out tuition and mandatory fees, for three funded years spread across a five-year fellowship period. NSF expects to make about 1,500 awards. You must be a US citizen, national or permanent resident, and you must be an undergraduate senior, a bachelor's degree holder with no graduate enrolment, or a first-year graduate student. Applications close between 19 and 23 October 2026 depending on your field, with reference letters due 16 October 2026.
Microsoft Global University Internship 2027
Microsoft runs its Global University Internship across every job family and solution area, and it is open to students currently enrolled in a bachelor's, master's, MBA or PhD program. Most placements run over the summer. There is no closing date to miss, because Microsoft states that recruiters keep accepting applications until all positions are filled. The US rules are specific and worth reading before you apply: you must be enrolled during the academic term immediately before the internship, go back to school for one full academic term afterwards, avoid taking classes while you intern, and be at least 16. Microsoft publishes a base pay range on each individual posting rather than one headline figure, and US interns get medical and vision insurance, paid sick time, paid federal holidays and software discounts.
Carnegie Endowment Internship 2027 - Paid DC Roles
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace runs paid internships across its Washington research programs and its support departments, open to all students and recent graduates. Every intern, part time or full time, is paid at least $20 an hour. Full-time interns receive a benefits package and part-time interns get limited benefits. Individual postings say whether the role is open to remote candidates or restricted to people who can work from the DC-metro area. There is no single application form and no annual cutoff. Roles appear on the Carnegie jobs board as programs need them, so the practical approach is to watch the board rather than wait for a date. US work authorisation is the hard gate for any US-based internship.
UN Women Internship Programme 2027 - Unpaid, Year-Round
The UN Women Internship Programme places students and recent graduates inside UN Women teams for two to six months, at the New York headquarters on East 42nd Street and at offices around the world. Work covers strategic partnerships, communications, advocacy, policy, evaluation, human resources, programme planning, research and data, finance and ICT. The programme is unpaid. UN Women states that interns are not financially remunerated, and that a stipend towards meals and local transport is possible only for interns who are not funded by a university, government, foundation or scholarship programme. Travel, insurance and accommodation are yours to pay for. There is no annual application round: placements are advertised on the UN Women Careers site whenever a unit has a meaningful assignment, so the filter to watch is the Internships vacancy category.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program 2028 - Fully Funded
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program brings graduate students, young professionals and artists from more than 160 countries to the United States to take a master's or doctorate, or to run a research stay. The US Department of State funds it, IIE and AMIDEAST administer it, and roughly 4,000 grants go out every year. The grant carries J-1 visa sponsorship with the DS-2019 issued by IIE, funding toward tuition and living costs, a health benefit plan and enrichment activities, though the exact package is set country by country. There is no global application: you apply to the binational Fulbright Commission or the US Embassy in your own country, and each one publishes its own deadline. Indonesia closes on 15 February every year, Spain ran its last call from 15 January to 14 April.
Capital University Scholarship 2027 - $80,000 Award
Capital University in Columbus, Ohio hands every admitted full-time undergraduate the Main Street Scholarship, a minimum $80,000 applied over four years, which works out at $20,000 a year for up to eight semesters. On top of that sits the Capital Merit Scholarship, a stackable award set purely by weighted high school GPA and worth $2,000 to $8,000 a year, so a first-year student lands somewhere between $22,000 and $28,000 a year before need-based aid is added. There is no separate scholarship form. Your admission application is the scholarship application, and the offer letter arrives on the day you are admitted. Transfer students get their own GPA ladder up to $25,000, international students start at $29,000 a year, and Ohio residents under a $60,000 household income with a 3.5 GPA can reach full tuition and fees through the Capital Gateway Scholarship.
FBI Honors Internship 2028 - Paid Summer Program
The FBI Honors Internship Program (HIP) is a paid, full-time internship that runs from June to August at FBI Headquarters, field offices across the United States and Puerto Rico, and the satellite campuses in Quantico, Huntsville and Pocatello. Interns are paid on the federal General Schedule, GS-5 for those who hold a bachelor's degree and are enrolled full-time in a graduate program, GS-4 for every other full-time student. Applicants must be US citizens, attend a US-accredited college or university full-time, hold and keep a 3.0 cumulative GPA, and pass the full FBI background investigation for a Top Secret clearance. The FBI states that 60 percent of interns receive a full-time job offer after graduation. The 2027 cycle closed on 5 March 2026 and the 2028 cycle dates have not been announced.
Netflix Internship Program 2027 - Paid 12-Week Roles
Netflix runs a paid summer internship program in the United States, India, Poland and Japan, built around a 12-week placement that embeds you in a team rather than parking you on a side project. Most openings sit in Engineering and Data and Insights, with others across Content, Finance and Strategy, Marketing and Program Management. Netflix states the pay range on its own postings: the market range for internships is typically $40 to $85 an hour on the current Winter 2027 listings, quoted as total compensation. Eligibility is short. You must be enrolled at a university studying for a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree, and the program is meant for students going back to school for at least a semester afterwards. There is no closing date. Roles post from mid-August to early September and the intern recruiting season runs to the end of March, with applications reviewed as they arrive.
CSIS Internships 2027 - Paid Policy Research in DC
The Center for Strategic and International Studies runs paid internships in Washington, DC across its research programs, in the fall, spring and summer terms, for undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates. Interns are paid by the hour on a published scale of $18.40 for current undergraduates, $19.40 for hires holding a bachelor's degree and $20.40 for hires holding a master's, and they join the programming of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy alongside roughly 200 other interns a year. There is no single application and no single cutoff. Each program posts its own intern role on the CSIS careers portal, and the pattern CSIS publishes is February postings for the summer term, July for the fall term and October for the spring term. Work authorisation in the United States is the hard gate, since CSIS does not sponsor visas for interns, and housing is not provided.
Georgia Mining Foundation Scholarship 2027 - $500-$4,000
The Georgia Mining Foundation runs three separate scholarship tracks for Georgia students and hands out more than $40,000 a year between them. High school seniors heading to an accredited Georgia college can apply for a $500 award or one of the larger $1,000 awards, students heading to one of Georgia's technical colleges have their own $500 programme, and one senior a year wins the Endowment scholarship worth $1,000 a year across four years. Everything goes in the post on paper. The Foundation does not accept electronic copies, and the packet has to be postmarked by the deadline. The 2026 cycle closed in March 2026, and the 2027 packets are expected on the same page later in the year.
FIU DBA Scholarship 2027 - $8,000 One-Time Award
The Florida International University Doctorate in Business Administration Scholarship is a one-time $8,000 award from FIU''s Chapman Graduate School of Business, scoped to College of Business graduate students. It goes only to people who have just been admitted to the DBA program and have not yet started classes, so applicants and enrolled students are both shut out. FIU asks for a minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA in upper division undergraduate coursework and an aid-eligible immigration or residency status, which means US citizens, permanent residents and holders of other aid-eligible visa status. The money is split across the Fall and Spring terms of one academic year. The 2026-27 round closed on 26 July 2026 and FIU has not yet posted the next one.
Auburn Graduate School Scholarship 2027 - $37,000/yr PGRF
Auburn University does not run a single application-based Graduate School scholarship. Its flagship award is the Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship, and it is generous: a minimum of $37,000 a year built from a $15,000 President's Fellowship, a minimum $7,000 Dean's Fellowship and a minimum $15,000 graduate research assistantship, plus a full in-state and out-of-state tuition waiver, held for three years of doctoral study. Each of Auburn's 12 colleges can award new fellowships every year for a fall start. You cannot apply directly. Your major professor or department chair nominates you, so the route in is to apply for doctoral admission and tell the Graduate Program Officer you want to be considered. Student fees and the graduate enrollment fee are not covered.
NYU CERA PhD Scholarship 2027 - Fully Funded at Tandon
The NYU CERA PhD Scholarship 2027 is funded doctoral study in the Climate, Energy and Risk Analytics Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, led by Assistant Professor Yuki Miura. The lab's own recruitment notice promises full tuition coverage, a PhD stipend, health insurance and research and conference support. You start by filling in the CERA interest form, then apply formally to the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering PhD and name Yuki Miura as your intended advisor. Tandon reviews all PhD applications for Fall entry by 1 December, and the lab reads interest forms on a rolling basis, so early is better.
NASA JPL Year-Round Internship 2027 - Paid STEM
The NASA JPL Year-Round Internship Program pays undergraduate and graduate STEM students to work on Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the academic year and over the summer, with part-time and full-time terms offered all year. There is no single closing date. JPL accepts applications continuously, keeps each one active in its system for eight months, and lets mentors search that pool when they have a project to staff. Participants get a weekly monetary award, and full-time in-person interns whose university sits more than 50 miles from JPL also get a housing and travel allowance. The programme is open to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents enrolled at accredited U.S. universities, with a 3.0 GPA minimum and 3.5 preferred, and your first term has to run 10 weeks or more.
NIAF Scholarship 2027 - $2,500 to $12,000 Awards
The NIAF Scholarship is the National Italian American Foundation's annual award programme for Italian American students at US colleges and universities. Individual awards run from $2,500 to $12,000, and the Foundation says it has put over $10,000,000 into scholarships since it was founded. One application matches you to every fund you qualify for, from business and STEM awards to funds for music, law, Italian studies and students from particular states. You need an active NIAF membership, a 3.5 GPA, US citizenship or permanent resident status, and full-time enrollment for Fall 2027. The application reopens on 1 December 2026 and closes at 11:59 p.m. EST on 1 March 2027.
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Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowship 2027
The Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowship brings journalists living in exile in the United States to the Missouri School of Journalism for a four-week in-person training programme. Housing, food and transportation are paid by the Alfred and Jean Friendly Foundation, and there is no fee to take part. The training covers security, legal knowledge, journalism craft and entrepreneurship, with the psychosocial side of exile running through the whole month. Roughly ten fellows are selected each round, and the foundation has trained hundreds of journalists from 90 countries since 1984.
Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship 2026 - No Stipend
The Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship is Google for Education's recognition programme for university faculty who already put AI to work in their teaching and research. Applications for the 2026 inaugural cohort are open, and there are two ways in: a personal nomination from a Google leader, or a self-application through the Google for Education application portal. Selected fellows join a global network, act as ambassadors for responsible AI on their campus, and work on one impact challenge they name themselves. Google publishes no stipend, no salary and no award amount for this fellowship, and its own FAQ says fellows must self-fund travel, accommodation, parking and any meals the programme does not cover at the in-person convening. The application asks for a short portfolio of innovation, a 90-second video, an impact challenge and a letter from your Dean or Program Chair.
Hubert Humphrey Fellowship 2028-2029 - Fully Funded
The Hubert Humphrey Fellowship brings mid-career professionals from more than 100 eligible countries to the USA for a 10-month, non-degree year of graduate-level study, leadership training and a six-week professional affiliation. The US Department of State pays tuition and fees, a monthly maintenance allowance, a settling-in allowance, accident and sickness cover, a book allowance, a one-time computer subsidy, international airfare and a professional development allowance. You apply through the US Embassy or Binational Fulbright Commission in your own country, and each one sets its own deadline.
Anthropic Fellows Program 2027 - AI Safety Research
The Anthropic Fellows Program pays technical people to spend four months doing full-time empirical AI research with an Anthropic mentor, aiming at a public output such as a paper. Fellows receive a weekly stipend of 3,850 USD (2,310 GBP or 4,300 CAD), benefits that vary by country, and roughly 15,000 dollars a month of compute funding. Five workstreams run under the same programme: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and the Anthropic Institute covering economics and policy. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis for the next cohort, which Anthropic expects to start in January 2027. The hard gate is location: you must already hold work authorisation in the US, the UK or Canada and be in that country during the programme, because no visas are sponsored for fellows.
FAO Schwarz Fellowship 2027 - $105K-$115K Over 2 Years
The FAO Schwarz Fellowship is a paid two-year post-graduate role at a nonprofit host organisation in Boston, New York City or Philadelphia. Fellows starting in summer 2027 receive total compensation of roughly $115,000 in Boston and New York or $105,000 in Philadelphia, plus the same benefits as entry-level staff at their host. Applications for the 2027-2029 cycle open on 1 November 2026 and close at 9:00 PM ET on 1 February 2027. You must be a college senior graduating between November 2026 and summer 2027 from an accredited four-year institution, and you must already be able to work in the United States, because host organisations cannot sponsor work visas.