USA Scholarships
Fully Funded Scholarship Guides
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.
Luce/ACLS American Art Fellowship 2026 - $42,500
Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art fund seven PhD candidates at US universities researching US visual art and Native American art. Each award totals $42,500 ($38,000 stipend plus up to $4,500 for travel and research) for nine to twelve months between July 2026 and June 2027. Apply through ACLS by 28 October 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern.
CASBS Fellowship 2028 - Up to $83,000 Stipend
CASBS Fellowships place accomplished scholars in a residential year at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. First-time fellows may receive a Center stipend of up to $83,000 to supplement sabbatical or salary support, plus housing and relocation subsidies for many relocators. Applications for the 2027-28 year close 30 October 2026.
Pharmacology Toxicology Postdoc 2027 - PhRMA
The PhRMA Foundation Pharmacology/Toxicology Post Doctoral Fellowship historically supported postdocs who integrate pharmacology or toxicology with multidisciplinary training on drug effects in intact organisms, including collaborations with cell biology, pathology, or systems biology labs. Current PhRMA postdoctoral awards pay $60,000 per year for 12, 18, or 24 months at accredited US universities under shared eligibility rules: terminal doctorate, postdoctoral appointment, mentor commitment, two first-author publications, and degree granted on or after January 1, 2024. Pharmacology/toxicology may not appear as a standalone category every cycle; verify open tracks and LOI dates on phrmafoundation.org and ProposalCentral.
Rangel Graduate Fellowship 2027 - Foreign Service
The Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship prepares US citizens for careers as Foreign Service Officers at the US Department of State. Howard University administers the merit and need-based program, which historically selects about 45 fellows for up to $42,000 per year across two years of graduate study ($24,000 tuition and mandatory fees plus an $18,000 academic-year stipend), Capitol Hill and overseas embassy internships, mentoring, and a mid-May orientation. Fellows who complete the program and entry requirements owe at least five years in the Foreign Service. The 2026 application cycle was postponed pending State Department guidance; monitor rangelprogram.org for the 2027 call.
Informatics Pre Doctoral Fellowship 2027 - PhRMA
The PhRMA Foundation Informatics Pre Doctoral Fellowship funds PhD candidates who use informatics in an integrative approach to biological and disease processes, combining new computational methods with experimental validation. Predoctoral awards follow the Foundation''s graduate stipend structure (currently $30,000 per year for 12, 18, or 24 months at accredited US universities). You must be a full-time in-residence PhD student who has finished most coursework, hold at least one publication or poster, and propose informatics work that goes beyond standard bioinformatics analysis. Applications route through the university; verify informatics deadlines on phrmafoundation.org each cycle.
Informatics Post Doctoral Fellowship 2027 - PhRMA
The PhRMA Foundation Informatics Post Doctoral Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers who bridge experimental and computational work in genomic and biomedical studies. Stipend levels follow the Foundation''s postdoctoral portfolio (currently $60,000 per year for up to 24 months at accredited US universities). You need a PhD or equivalent, a committed US host lab, first-author publications, and research that advances informatics beyond routine bioinformatics analysis. Applications are submitted through the university; confirm the active informatics cycle and deadlines on phrmafoundation.org because funding areas and dates change by year.
Michigan Society of Fellows 2027 - $63K/yr
The Michigan Society of Fellows Three-Year Fellowships place recent Ph.D.s and terminal-degree holders at the University of Michigan as non-tenure-track Assistant Professors and Postdoctoral Scholars for a 2027-2030 term. Fellows receive a $63,000 annual stipend plus benefits, teach the equivalent of one academic year spread across three years, and pursue independent research in humanities, arts, sciences, or professions. Ph.D. or comparable degrees must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 24 August 2027. Applications open 1 August 2026 and close 14 September 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT, with appointments beginning 25 August 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.
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.
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.