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Guides for funded bachelor's degree programmes for international students. Each guide covers eligibility, documents, benefits, and the full application process so you know exactly what to do.
Mastercard Internship 2027 - Paid US Summer Roles
Mastercard runs paid internships across eleven categories, from software engineering and cybersecurity to consulting, finance, product management and marketing, in more than 40 countries and with placements running anywhere from a few weeks to a full year. The US summer programme is the one most students want. Eligibility is stated plainly: you must be currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree and set to complete your studies the year after you intern. Postings for a given summer start appearing the previous autumn, and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis rather than against a closing date, so the practical deadline is whenever the seats fill. One rule ends a lot of applications early: many Mastercard intern postings state they are not eligible for work authorization sponsorship, so you must already be able to work in the US without it.
UoPeople Scholarships 2027 - Tuition-Free US Degrees
University of the People is an accredited American online university that charges no tuition and no money for textbooks or course materials. What it does charge is a one-time $60 application fee and an assessment fee at the end of every course: $180 for undergraduate courses, $430 for M.Ed. courses and $490 for MBA and MS-IT courses. A full bachelor's degree comes to $7,260 and an MBA to $5,940. UoPeople scholarships exist to cover those fees, funded by partners including SAP, Intel, the Algorand Foundation and the Simone Biles Legacy Scholarship Fund, alongside country and refugee funds. There is no scholarship deadline. You apply for admission first, and once accepted you request a scholarship from the funding page in the Student Portal, where money is granted first-come, first-served and applied to your assessment fees until it runs out.
SHE-CAN Scholarship 2026 - Full Ride to US Colleges
SHE-CAN, short for Supporting Her Education Changes a Nation, coaches young women from Cambodia, Guatemala and Liberia into full-ride scholarships at top US colleges, then supports them through the degree and back home again. The 2026-27 cycle opened in July 2026. Cambodia and Guatemala close on 1 October 2026 and Liberia on 1 November 2026, with no application fee at any stage. Applicants must be female, aged 17 to 20, from a low-income household, with under a year of post-secondary education and strong national exam or WAEC results. What follows is long: interviews in the capital, test preparation and a community project from January to June 2027, college applications through late 2027, decisions in December 2027 and arrival in the US in August 2028. Every scholar pledges to return home within a year of graduating and work there for at least three years.
Gates Scholarship 2027 - Full Ride for 300 Students
The Gates Scholarship picks 300 high school seniors a year and covers the full cost of attendance that other financial aid does not reach: tuition, fees, books, housing, food and personal expenses. It is a last-dollar award, so it fills the gap left after your other aid and your Student Aid Index rather than paying the whole bill from the start. Applications for the 2027 cohort opened on 15 July 2026 and close on 15 September 2026, with semifinalist review and finalist interviews running December to January, selection in March 2027 and awards distributed from April. One thing has changed that most articles still get wrong. The Gates Scholarship dropped its ethnicity requirement in 2025 and is now open to every Pell-eligible applicant who meets the other criteria: high school senior, US citizen, national or permanent resident, and a minimum cumulative weighted GPA of 3.3.
Jefferson Scholarship 2027 - Full Ride to UVA
The Jefferson Scholarship covers the full cost of four years at the University of Virginia, worth more than $42,000 a year for Virginia residents and more than $83,000 a year for everyone else, which comes to roughly $230,000 and $405,000 across a degree. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation runs it, and there is one hard rule that catches most people out: you cannot apply. Schools nominate, one senior per school per year for the Jefferson award, and 7,697 secondary schools were invited to nominate in the 2025-26 cycle. Counselor and nominee materials are due 1 December 2026 for most of the 65-plus regions, and 15 November 2026 for the At-Large and International At-Large regions. Regional interviews run from mid-December through January, final interviews are held virtually in late February 2027, and financial need plays no part in who wins.
FSU Admissions Scholarships 2026 - Up to $115,808
Florida State University runs about ten first-year admissions scholarships, and most of them arrive without you filling in anything beyond the admissions application. The largest is the Presidential Scholars award at roughly $115,808 over four years including an out-of-state tuition waiver. National Merit Finalists get the full in-state cost of attendance if they are Florida residents, worth $16,000 to $25,000 a year, or a package around $91,808 over four years if they are not. Below those sit merit and talent out-of-state tuition waivers at 100% and 50%, a $16,000 Vires award for Florida residents, $8,000 for an IB diploma, a $4,000 Sunshine Award, and $6,000 plus experiential funding on the invitation-only QUEST and Illuminate programmes. Apply by 1 December for the best shot. National Merit Finalists have a separate job: list FSU as first choice by 1 May.
Rising Explorer Grant 2027 - $2,000 Field Research
The Rising Explorer Grant is The Explorers Club programme that funds field research by high school students and college undergraduates, with awards averaging $2,000. The 2027 cycle is open now and closes on 31 August 2026 at 6:00 PM ET. Anyone can apply from anywhere: the Club states the programme is open to high school students and college undergraduates worldwide, plus independent researchers working at an equivalent level. Funded work spans the field sciences, including biology and ecology, wildlife conservation, environmental science, archaeology and anthropology, and marine and freshwater studies. One rule decides most applications: the project has to be true science designed to generate new knowledge, not an adventure, a travel experience or a school field trip. Grantees are also considered automatically for Explorers Club membership.
Five Rings Quantitative Internship 2027 - 9 Paid Weeks
The Five Rings Summer Intern 2027 Quantitative Trader programme is a nine-week paid internship in New York, running from the beginning of June to the beginning of August 2027. Five Rings lists the annual base salary at $300,000, which works out at roughly $52,000 across the nine weeks, and adds a sign-on bonus and corporate housing on top. Interns work with the trading team on research and development projects, mentored by full-time traders, alongside classroom instruction, in-house strategy games, mock trading and a series of talks on core trading concepts. The eligibility bar is narrow on timing and wide on geography: you need to graduate in winter 2027 or spring or summer 2028, and Five Rings states directly that students outside the US are eligible to apply even though the internship runs in New York.
Amazon Operations Finance Internship 2027 - Paid 12 Weeks
The 2027 Amazon Operations Finance Rotational Program Summer Internship is a paid 12-week placement based in Seattle, Washington or Arlington, Virginia, starting in May or June 2027. Interns join a finance team supporting one part of the supply chain, such as Customer Fulfillment, Amazon Logistics or Amazon Air, and own a single project that gets attention from senior leadership. Amazon lists the Seattle pay as $80,200 to $99,300 a year, which is roughly $18,500 to $22,900 across a 12-week internship. You need to be enrolled in a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, industrial engineering, accounting, supply chain, operations, business, mathematics or a related field, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. Two details catch people out: despite the name the internship itself is not rotational, and Amazon states it cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Coca-Cola Scholars Program 2027 - $20,000 Award
The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is a $20,000 achievement-based scholarship for US high school seniors, and the open cycle is the 2027 application for students graduating during the 2026-2027 academic year. It closes at 5pm Eastern on Wednesday 30 September 2026. One hundred and fifty Coke Scholars are chosen each year, and the first phase asks for no essays, no transcript and no recommendations, which makes it one of the lowest-effort major scholarship applications in the country to start. Selection then narrows hard: about 1 per cent of applicants become Semifinalists in October, roughly 1,200 people, of whom 250 become Regional Finalists interviewed in late January or early February, and 150 are invited to Coke Scholars Weekend in Atlanta in April. You need a minimum B or 3.0 GPA and you must attend school in one of the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico or a select Department of Defense school.
Northwestern University Scholarship 2027 - 100% Need Met
The Northwestern University Scholarship 2027 is the need-based grant Northwestern awards undergraduates entering in Fall 2027, and it is gift aid you never repay. Northwestern says plainly that it does not award scholarships based on academic merit, so every dollar turns on demonstrated need. The university meets 100 per cent of that need and packages no loans at all. Most families earning under $150,000 attend tuition-free, and most earning under $70,000 attend at no cost. Around half of all undergraduates hold a Northwestern University Scholarship, and more than $250 million went into undergraduate aid last year against a 2026-27 on-campus budget of $99,375. Apply for admission by 1 November 2026 for Early Decision or 4 January 2027 for Regular Decision, with aid forms due 1 December 2026 and 1 February 2027.
GWI Scholars Program 2027 - Free Training, Paid Internship
The GWI Scholars Program 2027 from Girls Who Invest is open now, and it costs nothing to apply or to take part. Every admitted Scholar gets tuition-free training in Excel, accounting, financial statement analysis and financial modelling, running from December 2026 to late March 2027 as a unified curriculum. Sophomores can opt into the Internship Track, and the portion matched with a partner firm spend four weeks in residence at the Wharton School from late May 2027 before a seven-week paid frontline investing internship that runs to mid-August. GWI partner firms have hosted between 175 and 200 interns each summer in recent years. Despite the name, the programme is open to all gender identities including male-identifying students, to every major, and with no minimum GPA. Priority applications close 15 September 2026 and the final deadline is 15 October 2026.