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.
UMAPS Fellowship 2027 - African Faculty at Michigan
The UMAPS Fellowship (University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars) brings early-career faculty from African colleges and universities to Ann Arbor for a five-month research residency in 2027-2028. The African Studies Center funds the stay, including travel, housing and a stipend, pairs each scholar with a U-M faculty host, and takes applications until 15 October 2026.
Knight Hennessy Scholarship 2027 - Stanford Full Funding
The Knight Hennessy Scholarship 2027 is Stanford University's flagship graduate award, run as the Knight-Hennessy Scholars programme. It pays tuition and fees, a living stipend, one round trip a year and a relocation allowance for up to three years of graduate study in any of Stanford's seven schools, including MA, MS, MBA, JD, MD, MFA, MPP, DMA and PhD programmes. Up to 100 scholars are chosen each year and applicants of every nationality are welcome. The application for the 2027 cohort closes on 6 October 2026 at 1 pm Pacific Time, and you must also apply to your Stanford degree programme by 1 December 2026 or its own earlier deadline.
Wilson Center Research Fellowship 2027 - $10,000/Month
The Wilson Center Research Fellowship 2027-2028 pays scholars, policy practitioners and journalists $10,000 a month for 12 months to research and write on a foreign policy challenge. You work remotely, with two paid trips to Washington, DC. Applicants of any nationality can apply through Interfolio by 11:59 pm ET on 30 September 2026.
HUGO Lab PhD Scholarship 2027 - South Carolina Funded PhD
The HUGO Lab PhD Scholarship 2027 is funding for two new doctoral students in Dr. Jangwoon Park's Human Factors and Ergonomics (HUGO) Lab at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. According to the lab's recruitment notice, both places come with a full tuition waiver and a monthly stipend, and funding is guaranteed for the first two years. You can start in Spring 2027 or Fall 2027. You apply through USC's Mechanical Engineering PhD, where the Spring deadline is 1 October 2026 for international applicants and 15 October 2026 for US applicants, and the Fall deadline is 1 May 2027 (15 May for US applicants). You also email your file to Dr. Park directly.
Kellogg Faculty Visiting Fellowship 2027 - Notre Dame
The Kellogg Faculty Visiting Fellowship 2027-2028 brings assistant, associate and full professors to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year of research on global democracy. Fellows receive a stipend set by academic rank, research and travel funding, a round trip to Notre Dame and medical insurance, with the option to lease a furnished campus apartment. Open to scholars from any country, with applications due 1 October 2026 through Interfolio.
Notre Dame Kellogg Visiting Fellowship 2027 - $75,000
The Notre Dame Kellogg Visiting Fellowship 2027-2028 brings recent PhDs to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies for an academic year of research on global democracy. Postdoctoral fellows receive a $75,000 stipend, up to $7,500 a year in research funds, up to $2,000 for relocation, medical insurance benefits and the option of a furnished campus apartment in year one. Open to applicants from any country, with applications due 1 October 2026 through Interfolio.
National College Match Scholarship 2027 - QuestBridge
The National College Match Scholarship is QuestBridge's route to a full four-year ride at one of 55 selective US colleges, from Harvard and Stanford to Pomona and Rice. You apply once, for free, and rank up to 15 partners. If a college picks you, the scholarship covers tuition, housing, food, books and travel with no loans and no parental contribution. Applications for fall 2027 entry close on 1 October 2026.
World Bank Young Professionals Program 2027 - Eligibility
The World Bank Young Professionals Program 2027 is a two-year, salaried leadership programme at the World Bank Group for people with a graduate degree and two to six years of professional experience. You start in Washington, DC in September 2027, rotate three times for eight months each across the World Bank, IFC and MIGA with at least one country office posting, and can then be placed in a role for five more years. There is no age limit. Applications close on 30 September 2026 at 11:59 PM UTC.
World Bank Treasury Internship 2027 - Paid Summer in DC
The World Bank Treasury Internship 2027 is a paid ten-week summer programme in Washington, DC for college students in the second-to-last year of a four-year degree who graduate between December 2027 and September 2028. Interns rotate through three of Treasury's 17 teams, earn $22.70 an hour net (non-US citizens) or $27.70 an hour gross (US citizens) for 400 hours, and can be offered a two-year Junior Analyst role afterwards. Any nationality can apply, and the World Bank sponsors the visa if you need one. Applications close on 30 September 2026 at 11:59 pm UTC.
Stigler Fellowship 2028 - $14,000 Journalists in Residence
The Stigler Fellowship, officially the Journalists in Residence Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives a small cohort of journalists about 12 weeks in Chicago each spring to audit Booth classes and study political economy, with a $14,000 living stipend plus reimbursed economy airfare and visa fees. Reporters, editors and freelancers from any country can apply if they have a few years of post-degree experience and good English. The Spring 2027 cohort closes on 20 September 2026, so this guide is set up for the Spring 2028 cohort, with a deadline expected in late September or early October 2027.
WACA Student Scholars Program 2026 - Free DC Conference
The WACA Student Scholars Program 2026 sends 25 undergraduates to the World Affairs Councils of America National Conference in Washington, DC, from 17 to 20 November 2026, at no cost to the student. WACA pays for conference registration, room and board, and gives each nominating Council $1,250 toward the scholar's travel and lodging. You cannot apply cold: one of WACA's 90 member Councils has to pick you as its single nominee first. You must be an undergraduate aged 18 or older at a local college or university, and students at schools in the Greater Washington DC area are excluded. Nominations and student applications close on Friday 25 September 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT.
YES Scholarship 2028 - Kennedy-Lugar High School Exchange
The YES Scholarship, formally the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program, is a US Department of State exchange that brings high school students from nine partner countries to live with an American host family and attend a US high school for a semester. Airfare, the host family placement, a monthly stipend, health insurance and program activities are all paid for. The spring 2027 round closes between 15 and 23 September 2026 depending on the country, so this guide is set up for the next intake, which is expected to recruit around August and September 2027 for a program starting in early 2028.