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Undergraduate Scholarships
Guides to US bachelor's degree scholarships. Each one covers who qualifies, what the award pays, and how to apply.
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.
Capital University Scholarship 2027 - $80,000 Award
Capital University in Columbus, Ohio hands every admitted full-time undergraduate the Main Street Scholarship, a minimum $80,000 applied over four years, which works out at $20,000 a year for up to eight semesters. On top of that sits the Capital Merit Scholarship, a stackable award set purely by weighted high school GPA and worth $2,000 to $8,000 a year, so a first-year student lands somewhere between $22,000 and $28,000 a year before need-based aid is added. There is no separate scholarship form. Your admission application is the scholarship application, and the offer letter arrives on the day you are admitted. Transfer students get their own GPA ladder up to $25,000, international students start at $29,000 a year, and Ohio residents under a $60,000 household income with a 3.5 GPA can reach full tuition and fees through the Capital Gateway Scholarship.
Bank of America Internship 2027 - Summer Analyst
The Bank of America Internship is a 10-week paid Summer Analyst Program running across the bank's US lines of business, from Global Technology and Corporate Audit through to Finance Management, Global Risk and Commodities. It is aimed squarely at students in their penultimate year of university, with graduation dates between November 2027 and August 2028, and the bank describes the summer class as its primary source of hiring into full-time campus programs. Bank of America publishes no hourly rate or salary figure on any of its US student postings. Most 2027 roles close on 30 September 2026, Commodities closes on 1 October 2026, and the Global Technology and Quantitative Data Analytics roles run to 7 November 2026. Applications are read on a rolling basis and most postings state that the bank cannot consider candidates who need visa sponsorship.
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.
Georgia Mining Foundation Scholarship 2027 - $500-$4,000
The Georgia Mining Foundation runs three separate scholarship tracks for Georgia students and hands out more than $40,000 a year between them. High school seniors heading to an accredited Georgia college can apply for a $500 award or one of the larger $1,000 awards, students heading to one of Georgia's technical colleges have their own $500 programme, and one senior a year wins the Endowment scholarship worth $1,000 a year across four years. Everything goes in the post on paper. The Foundation does not accept electronic copies, and the packet has to be postmarked by the deadline. The 2026 cycle closed in March 2026, and the 2027 packets are expected on the same page later in the year.
American University EGLS Scholarship 2027 - Fully Funded
The American University EGLS Scholarship 2027 (AU Emerging Global Leader Scholarship) covers all billable AU expenses, meaning full tuition, room and board, for two international students entering American University in Washington DC in Fall 2027. The award is renewable across four years of undergraduate study and is open to students in every major AU offers. Alongside the two full awards, AU offers up to eight AU EGL Partial Scholarships worth up to US $40,000 per year, drawn from the same applicant pool with no separate form. Applicants must need an F-1 or J-1 visa; US citizens, permanent residents and US dual citizens cannot apply. The Common Application and the AU EGLS essays are both due 15 January 2027.
Citadel Travel Grant 2026 - Fully Funded Conferences
The Citadel Conference Travel Grant sends students in quantitative fields to the world's top technical conferences with the bill paid. Citadel buys the full-access conference pass, books round-trip airfare and lodging through its own travel agency, hands out Uber vouchers for the airport and the week, and adds a meal stipend on top. Grace Hopper is the one exception, where the pass itself is not part of the grant. Eligible conferences run from Grace Hopper and NeurIPS to ICML, ICLR, ACL and the Global Physics Summit, and you can apply to as many as you like. The application is unusually light: an email address and a resume. For the 2026 round, Grace Hopper in Anaheim closes 25 September 2026 and NeurIPS in Sydney closes 5 October 2026. Citadel publishes no cash figure for the grant and there are no post-conference obligations.
NASA JPL Year-Round Internship 2027 - Paid STEM
The NASA JPL Year-Round Internship Program pays undergraduate and graduate STEM students to work on Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the academic year and over the summer, with part-time and full-time terms offered all year. There is no single closing date. JPL accepts applications continuously, keeps each one active in its system for eight months, and lets mentors search that pool when they have a project to staff. Participants get a weekly monetary award, and full-time in-person interns whose university sits more than 50 miles from JPL also get a housing and travel allowance. The programme is open to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents enrolled at accredited U.S. universities, with a 3.0 GPA minimum and 3.5 preferred, and your first term has to run 10 weeks or more.