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Fully Funded Scholarships & Fellowships
Every guide listed here covers an opportunity that pays for tuition, living costs, or both. No partial funding. These scholarships and fellowships handle the major expenses so you can focus on your studies or research.
Notre Dame Provost Fellowship 2027 - $75,000 Postdoc
The Notre Dame Provost Fellowship 2027 is a two-year postdoctoral appointment in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Eight fellows are hired for the 2027-2029 cohort, one each in Art, Art History and Design; English; German, Slavic and Eurasian Studies; Philosophy; Romance Languages and Literatures; Theology; the Initiative on Race and Resilience; and History and Philosophy of Science. Each fellow draws an annual salary of $75,000 plus $15,000 for research and training costs, gets office space, an assigned faculty mentor, and the option to teach without being required to. Applications go through Interfolio and close 1 December 2026 at 11:59pm EST, with decisions by 1 March 2027.
Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2027 - $78,000 Stipend
The Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2027 gives scholars, scientists, writers and artists nine months in Cambridge to finish an ambitious project, on a stipend of $78,000 plus $5,000 for project expenses. Fellows take up a full-time Harvard appointment as visiting fellows, get an office or studio in Byerly Hall, full Harvard Library access, and funded Harvard undergraduate research partners. Applications for the 2027-2028 year close 10 September 2026 at 5pm ET for the humanities, social sciences, creative arts, nonfiction and journalism, and 1 October 2026 for science, engineering and mathematics. Results go out by the end of March 2027, and the residency runs 1 September 2027 to 31 May 2028.
NPGH Global Health Fellowship 2027 - $67,824 Stipend
The NPGH Global Health Fellowship 2027 is a 12-month, NIH-funded research training year abroad, run by the Northern Pacific Global Health LEADERs consortium as part of the Fogarty International Center LAUNCH programme. Postdoctoral Fellows get a living stipend of $67,824 and $10,000 in research funds; predoctoral Scholars get $28,224 and $7,500. Health insurance, travel to and from the research site and an NIH orientation in Bethesda are all covered. You spend the year full-time at an approved site in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Peru, Thailand, Nepal or India with a mentor team on both ends. Applications for the 2027-2028 year close 15 September 2026 at 5pm Pacific, and fellowships begin 1 July 2027.
Yale Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program 2027 - Paid Predoc
The Yale Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program 2027 puts people with a bachelor's or master's degree into salaried, full-time research jobs at Yale for one to two years before they apply to a PhD in economics. Fellows are appointed as Postgraduate Associates, work under one or more named faculty mentors on a specific project, audit or take a Yale course each semester, and sit in a cohort of roughly 70 pre-docs. Yale sponsors J-1 visas for international fellows. There is no fixed deadline: projects are posted through the winter and reviewed on a rolling basis until each one is filled, with most positions starting in July to catch the multi-day orientation.
Amazon Tax Internship 2027 - 12 Weeks Paid in Seattle
Amazon's Global Tax team takes summer interns into real compliance and reporting work rather than shadowing, and the 2027 posting is live now. You spend 12 weeks between May and September 2027 in Seattle, working 40 hours a week across areas like US federal income tax reporting, cross-border withholding tax, state and local tax, US international tax and ASC 740 provision reporting, and you own a project end to end. Amazon lists starting pay for the Seattle role at $80,200 to $92,800 annualised, with benefits including 401(k) matching from day one and relocation assistance if you are eligible. The eligibility is narrow and specific: you must be enrolled in an accounting bachelor's or dual degree programme, preferably on a tax track, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. One line ends most applications: Amazon states it is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
CHCI Congressional Internship Summer 2027 - Paid in DC
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute puts undergraduates and recent graduates into congressional offices on Capitol Hill for a summer, and pays properly for it. Summer 2027 interns get $4,776, furnished housing with rent and utilities covered, domestic round-trip flights to Washington, medical insurance with all premiums paid by CHCI, and a $100 a month Metro stipend. You work at least 32 hours a week in your congressional office assignment, attend an eight-day orientation and weekly leadership sessions, and complete community service hours. Applications launch on 15 August 2026 and close on 1 December 2026 for a programme running 19 May to 30 July 2027. Selection has two stages, a written application and a prerecorded interview, judged by CHCI alumni, board members and staff. Work authorisation is the hard gate: students on F-1 or M-1 visas cannot apply.
Georgetown PhD Scholarship 2026 - Full Funding & Stipend
Georgetown does not run a single named PhD scholarship. What it runs is a funding package, awarded by your department on the recommendation of the programme, and at the doctoral level it is designed to cover the lot. In Biomedical Graduate Education, where the university publishes exact numbers, an incoming PhD student on a merit fellowship gets tuition covered, a 2026-27 stipend of $40,922 over nine months or $44,605 over twelve, plus student health insurance and dental. Pre-thesis tuition alone lists at $31,416 a semester, so the tuition line matters as much as the cash. There is no separate scholarship form: you apply to the doctoral programme and the funding decision comes with the admission decision. Most Georgetown PhD deadlines land on 1 December at 11:59 PM EST, including Global Infectious Disease, Biology, History, Linguistics, Psychology and Nursing, with a second cluster on 15 December and a third on 15 January.
Cullman Center Fellowship 2027 - $90,000 at the NYPL
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers gives fifteen people a year an office inside the New York Public Library, a $90,000 stipend, and nine months to write. Fellows work at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue from September through May, five days a week, and the project has to genuinely need those collections rather than merely benefit from the address. Academics, independent scholars, novelists, playwrights, poets and visual artists working on a book project are all welcome, and the programme is international, though your application must be in English. Two exclusions end a lot of applications early: no academic projects from post-doctoral fellows, and no graduate-school dissertation research. Applications for 2027-2028 close on 25 September 2026 at 5pm EDT, with decisions in March 2027 and the term running 7 September 2027 to 26 May 2028.
Stamps Scholars Program 2026 - Up to $98,000 a Year
The Stamps Scholars Program does something unusual: it splits the bill with the university. E. Roe Stamps and his late wife Penny founded it in 2006, and today the foundation and its partner schools evenly share the cost of multi-year awards worth $20,000 to $98,000 a year, which over four years comes to between $80,000 and $392,000. On top of that every scholar gets a separate enrichment fund for study abroad, academic conferences and leadership training. You cannot apply to Stamps directly, and the website says so plainly. You apply to a partner university, and at most of them the normal freshman application by the early or scholarship deadline puts you in the running automatically. Deadlines are set school by school: 1 November at Boston College and Notre Dame Early Action, 3 November for non-residents at Georgia Tech, 5 December at Tulane, 1 January at Northeastern. Financial need is not a consideration anywhere.
GEM Fellowship Program 2026 - Funded MS & PhD in STEM
The National GEM Consortium pairs engineering and science graduate students with the companies and universities that will pay for their degree. An Employer Fellow gets full tuition and fees from a GEM member university, a stipend of at least $16,000, and paid summer internships with the sponsoring company: up to two for a master's, at least one for a PhD, with PhD tuition covered up to the fifth year. Applications for the 2026 cycle opened on 1 July and close at 11:59 PM Eastern on 13 November 2026, the second Friday in November. Two things trip people up. You must be a US citizen or permanent resident at the time of application, and you must apply directly to at least three GEM member universities on top of the GEM application itself, by their own deadlines or 15 January, whichever comes first. Minimum GPA is 2.8 for the MS track and 3.0 for the PhD track. The GRE is strongly encouraged and not required.
Yale University Scholarship 2027 - Need-Based Aid
The Yale Scholarship is the grant that sits at the centre of every Yale College financial aid offer, and the average one runs $75,220 a year. You never apply for it separately and you never pay it back. Yale reads first-year applications need-blind for every applicant anywhere in the world, then meets 100% of demonstrated need with grants rather than loans, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Families earning under $100,000 with typical assets are usually asked to pay nothing at all, and that offer covers tuition, fees, housing, food and travel, plus hospitalization insurance and a $2,000 start-up grant in the first year. Under $200,000 and tuition alone is normally covered. The gate is admission: Single-Choice Early Action and QuestBridge close 1 November 2026, Regular Decision 2 January 2027, with financial aid documents following on their own priority dates.
Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027 - $65,000/yr
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability funds up to four postdoctoral fellows a year on three-year appointments paying $65,000 annually, with full Cornell employee benefits and a further $12,000 a year for research and travel. Applications for the 2027 cohort close on 20 October 2026 at 5pm Eastern, notifications go out in January 2027, and fellowships start between 1 June and 1 September 2027. The structure is what makes this one unusual. Every application needs two mentors lined up before you apply: a PI-eligible Cornell faculty member who is a current Cornell Atkinson Faculty Fellow, and an advisor at an external governmental, non-governmental or private sector partner, which explicitly cannot be another university. Your doctorate must be recent, no earlier than 1 May 2025 for this cycle, and the programme is no longer open to Cornell PhD graduates or Cornell postdocs.