USA Scholarships
Scholarships in the USA - Study & Research Guides
Scholarships in the USA
The United States is home to many of the world's top-ranked universities and attracts students from every corner of the globe. Scholarship opportunities range from fully funded research positions to partial tuition awards at elite business schools. Below you'll find our guides for US scholarships, each covering eligibility, documents, benefits, and how to apply.
AAUW Career Development Grant 2027 - Up to $8,000
AAUW Career Development Grants pay up to $8,000 to women who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents and hold at least an associate degree. The grant funds accredited certificate or training programs that help you enter, change, or advance in fields where women are underrepresented, including STEM, business, and law, or executive leadership training when women hold fewer than half of senior roles. Your program must start between 1 January and 30 June 2027 for the winter/spring cycle. Applications open 18 August 2026 and close 30 September 2026 at 5pm ET, with notification in November 2026 and funds in November or December 2026.
911 Fresh Start Scholarship 2027 - $1,500 Award
The 911 Restoration Fresh Start Scholarship pays $1,500 twice a year to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are enrolled or accepted at an accredited college, university, or trade school and studying emergency management, environmental science, construction management, civil engineering, public safety, disaster preparedness, or a closely related field. You need a 3.0 cumulative GPA, a 500-to-700-word essay on community recovery after disaster, an unofficial transcript, and proof of enrollment. Spring and fall cycles run on separate deadlines; funds go to your school, not to you personally. The spring 2027 cycle opens 15 July 2026 and closes 30 September 2026, with winners announced 1 November 2026.
University of New Haven Scholarship 2026 - 75% Tuition
The University of New Haven hands out its graduate money through two named awards: a Provost's Assistantship worth 75% tuition assistance plus an hourly wage for 550 hours of research or teaching work a year, and a Dean's Scholarship worth up to 50% tuition assistance on academic merit. Both are open to full-time domestic and international master's students, and neither has a separate form. The admission packet is the application. Undergraduates at the West Haven campus run on a separate automatic merit ladder worth $15,000 to $33,000 a year. The next graduate cutoff is 1 October 2026 for a spring 2027 start.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Scholarships 2027
Fairleigh Dickinson University Scholarships come out of the admission file, not a separate competition. FDU states plainly that applying for admission puts you in the running and no separate scholarship application is needed. Incoming freshmen are considered for merit awards up to $22,000 a year on high school GPA, renewable for four years. International freshmen have their own ladder, the FDU International Scholarship worth up to $24,000 a year, with a $16,000 transfer version, a $3,000 Global Housing Grant on the Metropolitan campus and $1,500 family and alumni grants. The next published cutoff is 1 December 2026 for January 2027 entry.
UNDP Internship Programme 2027 - New York HQ Stipend
The UNDP Internship Programme places students and recent graduates inside United Nations Development Programme teams for six weeks to six months, and the New York headquarters is one of its duty stations. Past headquarters calls have covered UN system affairs, corporate and institutional law, programmes and projects law, and policy and advocacy on climate and security risk. Unlike several other UN internships, this one pays: an in-person intern who is not funded by a university, government, foundation or scholarship receives a monthly stipend set for the duty station, calculated as 45 per cent of the lowest level of the local NPSA salary scale. UNDP pays nothing else. Travel, visas, passports, accommodation, living costs and medical insurance are all yours. Vacancies appear on the UNDP Job Page through the year at post level IN, with no annual application round.
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.
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.
Forage Virtual Internship Program 2027 - 100% Free
The Forage virtual internship program is a catalogue of free online job simulations built by employers such as Citi, BCG, Bloomberg, Mastercard and AIG. Forage calls them 100% free, open access and self-paced, and the certificate at the end costs nothing either. There is no application form, no selection round, no deadline and no cohort. You register, pick a simulation, work through tasks that copy real work, compare your answers with the model answers the company recorded, and keep the certificate. What it is not is an internship in the legal sense: nobody pays you, nobody employs you, and no job is promised at the end.