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PhD & Postdoctoral Fellowships
Guides for fully funded doctoral and postdoctoral research opportunities. Each guide covers eligibility, documents, benefits, and the full application process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.