Click on any of the following Graduate Student Fellowships and Scholarships for more information.

American Graduate Fellowships
Carnegie Junior Fellows Program
Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship
Davies-Jackson Scholarship Program
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
George J. Mitchell Scholarship
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Fulbright Grant
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship Program
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
James Madison Fellowship Program
Jeanne Suave Foundation Program
Marshall Scholarship
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
Soros Fellowships for New Americans


AMERICAN GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
Website: http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/grants/americangrad.asp
Deadline: October 15, 2008
For graduating seniors intending to begin doctoral work in history, philosophy, literature, language, and fine arts.  Up to $50,000 to be used at a select list of universities in the U.S., Great Britain, and Ireland.



CARNEGIE JUNIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM
Website: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/about/index.cfm?fa=jrFellows
Deadline: January 15th
Each year the Endowment offers 8-10 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year.  They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 300 colleges.  Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates.



CORO FELLOWS PROGRAM IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Website: http://www.coro.org/programs/fellows_program.html
Deadline: January 23, 2009
"The Coro Fellows Program is the most long-standing and well known of the Coro program.  It is an intensive nine-month, full-time, graduate-level program.  Unconventional by traditional academic standards, the program is rigorous and demanding, and is an unparalleled opportunity for personal and professional growth.  Each year, after a rigorous national selection process, sixty-four Coro Fellows are chosen from across the country to serve as Coro Fellows at one of the following Coro Centers: Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis."


DAVID L. BOREN GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Website: http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship
Deadline: January 29, 2009
NSEP Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions that are critical to U.S. interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America & the Caribbean, and the Middle East).  Study of the countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.



DAVIES-JACKSON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Website: http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/grants/daviesjackson/index.asp
Deadline: November 14, 2009
The Davies-Jackson Scholarship is a full, two-year scholarship at St. John's College, Cambridge, England.  The Davies-Jackson Scholarship is intended for graduating seniors, who are able to demonstrate significant achievement in the liberal arts.  This opportunity is specifically designed for students who are among the first in their family to graduate from college.  After two years of study, candidates are awarded a Cambridge B.A. degree, often referred to as the Cantab degree, which is equivalent of a master's degree in the U.S.



GATES CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP
Website: http://www.gatesscholar.org/about/
Deadline: See table

"Gates Cambridge Scholarships are full-cost awards for graduate and affiliated study in Cambridge.  The Scholarships are awarded competitively to students from all-countries in the world, except the UK.  The award of a Scholarship is absolutely conditional on the student gaining admission to Cambridge through the University's regular procedures.  The Scholars engage in full-time intensive academic work while studying in Cambridge.  The Scholars become fully integrated into the University and its Colleges and, on graduation, they join Cambridge's widespread alumni network."



GEORGE J. MITCHELL SCHOLARSHIP
Website: http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=34
Deadline: March 2009
"The US-Ireland Alliance sponsors a competitive, national scholarship for graduate study by American citizens between the ages of 18 and 30 at institutions of higher learning on the island of Ireland.  Named to honor the former U.S. Senator's pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, the George J. Mitchell Scholarships are intended to familiarize and connect the next generation of American leadership with the island of Ireland."


FORD FOUNDATION PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR MINORITIES
Website: http://www.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/fordpredoc.html
Deadline: November 14, 2008
This year the program will award approximately 60 predoctoral fellowships.  The predoctoral fellowship provides three years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.


FULBRIGHT GRANT
Website: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_enrolledatlarge.html#enrolled
Deadline: mid-September to Early Fall
If you are a U.S. citizen graduating with a B.A. or B.S., then "you could be one of more than 1,200 candidates which receive a Fulbright grant each year to go overseas.  The Fulbright U.S. Student Program operates in more than 140 countries worldwide and grants are available in all fields of study."

HERTZ FOUNDATION GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
Website: http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/Fellowships/
Deadline: October 31, 2008 (application); November 3, 2008 (reference reports)
"Evidence of exceptional creativity, board understanding of physical principles, and outstanding potential for innovative research is excepted.  Eligible applicants for Hertz Fellowships must be students of the applied physical sciences who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States of America, and who are willing to morally commit to make their skills available to the United States in time of national emergency."


JACK KENT COOKE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
University Representative: Chris Ferguson, Associate Provost for Information and Technology Services
Website: http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org
Deadline: March 10, 2009
"This mission of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education.  We focus in particular on scholarships for outstanding individuals with financial need."


JACOB K. JAVITS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Website: http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
Deadline: October 3, 2008
"This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability - selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise - to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of art, humanities, and social sciences."



JAMES MADISON FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Website: http://www.jamesmadison.com
Deadline: March 1, 2009
"Junior Fellowships are awarded to students who are about to complete, or have completed, their undergraduate course of study and plan to begin graduate work on a full-time basis.  Junior Fellows have two years to complete their degree.  Senior Fellowships are awarded to teachers who wish to undertake work for a graduate degree on a part-time basis through summer and evening classes.  Senior Fellows have up to five year to complete their degree."

JEANNE SUAVE FOUNDATION PROGRAM
Website: http://www.sauvescholars.org
Deadline: January 30, 2009
"This program provides an opportunity for up to fourteen young leaders from all over the world to spend eight months in Montreal attending course at McGill University, to enlarge upon their understanding of the state of the world and their roles in making positive change.  The Scholarship is valued at $30,000 CDN.  Since its inception, 45 young scholars from 37 different countries have been awarded Suave Scholarships."


MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP
Website: http://www.marshallscholarship.org
Deadline: First week of October 2009
"Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom.  At least forty Scholars are selected each year to study either at graduate or occasionally undergraduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.  Each scholarship is held for two years.  As future leaders, with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars are talented, independent and wide-ranging, and their time as Scholars enhances their intellectual and personal growth.  Their direct engagement with Britain through its best academic programmes contributes to their ultimate personal success."


NATIONAL DEFENSE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Website: https://ndseg.asee.org
Deadline: January 5, 2009
"The NDSEG Fellowship Program is a Department of Defense (DoD) fellowship program sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).  The DoD is committed to increasing the number and quality of our Nation's scientists and engineers.  The actual number of awards varies from year to year, depending upon the available funding.  The NDSEG Fellows do not incur any military or other service obligations."



ROTARY AMBASSADORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Website: http://www.rotary.org/en/studentsandyouth/educationalprograms/Ambassadorialscholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx
Deadline: March 1st through August 15, depending on local Rotary
"The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries.  The program sponsors several types of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies.  While abroad, scholars serve as ambassadors of goodwill to the people of the host country and give presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups."

SOROS FELLOWSHIPS FOR NEW AMERICANS
Website: http://www.pdsoros.org/
Deadline: November 1, 2009
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields.  The Program is open to individuals who retain loyalty and a sense of commitment to their country or origin as well as to the United States, but is intended to support individuals who will continue to regard the United States as their principal residence and focus of national identity.