Master's Level Fellowships for Non-Traditional Aged students
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Fellowships
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation Fellowship
International fellowships for full-time female graduate students – who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) Student Summer Fellowship
Summer program for graduating seniors and early stage graduate students with a career interests in economic education, policymaking, lawmaking, or research.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artists' Residency Program
Anderson Ranch offers artists residencies of approximately ten weeks designed to encourage the creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging and established visual artists.
Arena Stage Hughes Fellowship
The Hughes Fellowship aims to increase the participation of people of color in professional theatre through a 38-44 week fellowship at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., one of the first not-for-profit theatres in the U.S.
CARE USA Visiting Fellows Program
Through the Visiting Fellows Program, students and practitioners in global development, global health and related fields gain international work experience through short-term, practical learning experiences in various CARE countries. No compensation is associated with this program.
Claremont Graduate University National Scholarships for Doctoral Study
America's only graduate-only, research-extensive university, CGU offers a full tuition doctoral scholarship for interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary study in any of its nine graduate schools: Arts and Humanities, Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Community and Global Health Educational Sciences, Information Systems and Technology, Management, Mathematical Sciences, Politics and Economics, and Religion.
Congressional Hunger Center International Hunger Fellowship
The International Hunger Fellowship is a two-year program that begins with a one-year field placement in countries throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and is followed by a second year in a policy environment, usually at the headquarters of the organizations where they served during their field placements.
Critical Language Scholarships (CLS)
Critical Language Scholarships provide intensive language instruction and cultural enrichment experiences abroad to undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
CSU: Hearst/CSU Trustees' Award
The Hearst/CSU Trustees' Award recognizes California State University students who have overcome adversity, demonstrate financial need, and have attributes of merit, including superior academic performance, significant personal achievements, and exemplary community service. Each year, S.F. State may nominate one student for this $3,000 award. One CSU nominee will receive a $10,000 award.
DAAD EMGIP (Émigré Memorial German Internship Program) Bundestag Internship Program
Two-month internships in the German Parliament ("Bundestag") for U.S. and Canadian students fluent in German.
DAAD EMGIP (Émigré Memorial German Internship Program) Internship Program
Short term internships in German State Parliaments for students planning careers in U.S. or Canadian regional government in the environment, education, and healthcare.
DAAD German Studies Research Grant -- Undergraduate and Graduate
This program offers short term research grants to highly qualified undergraduates majoring or minoring in German Studies and master's level students in the humanities and social sciences working on a project in German Studies.
Davis Putter Scholarship Fund
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides need-based grants of up to $8,000 to students actively working for peace and justice.
Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) Program
This fellowship, renewable for a total of 4 years, provides tuition and fees, plus a yearly stipend for doctoral study in physical, engineering, computer, mathematical, or life sciences, with an emphasis in high-performance computing.
Echoing Green
Two-year fellowship program provides $60,000 - $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to help social entrepeneurs turn their original high impact ideas into sustainable social change organizations working to solve deeply-rooted social, environmental, economic, and political inequities.
EPA National Network for Environmental Management Studies (EPA NNEMS) Fellowship Program
Under this fellowship program undergraduate and graduate students receive funding to work over a summer on a project at the EPA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., or at one of its 10 regional offices and laboratories.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships
Three years of support are provided to underrepresented graduate students studying for a PhD or ScD degree in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences.
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Each year more than 1,500 students receive a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to live and study, or work as teaching assistants, in one of more than 140 countries worldwide. Fulbright awards are in nearly all fields and disciplines, including the sciences, professional fields, and the creative and performing arts.
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Full funding for a degree at Cambridge for students of exceptional academic achievement and scholarly promise with a commitment to improving the lives of others.
Greenlining Institute Leadership Academy Fellowship
Greenlining Institute's acclaimed leadership academy trains the next generation of social change leaders. Its year-long Fellows Program is associated with Greenlining Coalition, one of the nation's most effective and longest lasting multi-ethnic coalitions of community-based organizations.
Human Rights Watch Feinberg Fellowship
Graduates from specified master's programs work full-time for one year with Human Rights Watch divisions in New York City or Washington, monitoring human rights developments in various countries, conducting on-site investigations, and engaging in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations.
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Fellowship
This five-year program provides financial support and mentoring to beginning science and mathematics high school teachers as they earn a teaching credential and through the early years of their teaching careers.
Marshall EPA Scholarship
The Marshall Commission and the U.S .Environmental Protection Agency provide up to five years of funding towards a doctoral degree in England in an environmentally-related field.
Marshall NIH Scholarship
Jointly funded by the Marshall Commission and the National Institutes of Health, NIH-Marshall Scholarships provide four years of funding for a doctoral degree in bioscience, medicine and related disciplines from any appropriate U.K. institution. The third and fourth years are spent in research at the NIH.
Marshall Scholarship
Marshall Scholarships provide funding to young Americans of high ability and leadership potential to study for two years for a degree in any discipline at any university in the United Kingdom.
Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program
This fellowship program places undergraduate and graduate students at various media sites throughout the U.S. during the summer, to work as science journalists.
Mitchell Scholarship
Each year 12 Scholars with a deep commitment to public service are selected for one year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland. This graduate fellowship is for the early stages of graduate study, usually a one-year master's degree program.
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Next Generation Leadership in Asian Affairs Fellowship
This year-long fellowship at the Seattle headquarters of the National Bureau of Asian Research is designed to further the professional development of Asia specialists in the year just after the completion of their master's degree.
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Each year up to five $30,000 fellowships are awarded to new screenwriters for an original feature film screenplay in English.
Point Scholarship
The Point Scholarship Program provides tuition, living expenses, and mentoring to outstanding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline.
Stegner Fellowship
Unique among writing programs, Stanford University offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry.
Student Academy Awards
Annual Academy of Motion Pictures competition in which student filmmakers receive awards for films in four categories: animation, documentary, narrative, and alternative.
Scholarships
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference Registration Grants
NWSA Conference Registration grants are offered to presenters in need financial assistance to attend the conference.

