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Tip: Did you know that you can search the Yale Student Grants Database by class year to find fellowships for which you are eligible?
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For First-years, Sophomores, and Juniors
Start Exploring
- What are fellowships?
- Hear from other Yalies and what they've done with Yale fellowships.
- Check the Fellowships calendar to see what's coming up next.
- Check our advice on how to get started.
- Use the planning toolkits to help build your project.
- Chat with an adviser about your plans and goals
Find a Fellowship
A Note for Juniors!
Junior year is a good time to begin to explore postgraduate fellowship opportunities. Some application deadlines for postgraduate fellowships occur in junior year.
For Seniors
Questions to be asking
- What are your goals for after graduation? Career, gap year experience, research, independent project, internship, graduate/professional school, no clue!
- Will a postgraduate fellowship help achieve your goals?
- How will the funded experience fit into your longer-term plans and aspirations?
Note: Engaging thoughtfully with the application process will help you with future applications, whether for fellowships, graduate or professional school, or jobs. Even if you don't win!
Find a Fellowship
Self-designed Projects
- Yale Student Grants Database
- Yale College Postraduate Fellowships Common Application
- Fulbright US Student Grants
- Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship
- Fox International Fellowship
- Mortimer Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship
- External Awards (Non-Yale)
Structured Experiences
- Yale Student Grants Database
- Yale College Postraduate Fellowships Common Application
- Public Service Fellowships
- External Awards (Non-Yale)
- Gap Year and Short-term Opportunities
Quote: What do you care about? What are your goals? What is the change that you want to make in the world? Over the course of my application, I went from feeling unsure about the future to having a purpose, a direction, a path (not a path paved in stone, but a path nonetheless). It truly is a valuable process, and one that I don’t think I would have undergone without the structure of an application.
— Cody McCoy, BR '13
Graduate and professional school
- Look for programs that suit your preparation, interests, longer term goals, and future aspirations. Seek out a Yale professor in the relevant field for advice.
- Where are the best places to study what you're hoping to? (If graduate study in the United Kingdom or Ireland sounds like a good idea, find further advice here.)
- If professional school interests you, you'll find great advice at the Office of Career Strategy.
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Find funding for graduate or professional school:
- Inquire with the schools to which you are applying
- External Awards (Non-Yale)
- External Funding Databases
For Yale Graduate and Professional Students
Search for Funding
Yale and outside fellowship resources
Other Yale resources
Fulbright US Student Program
While Fellowship Programs works with graduating seniors applying for the Fulbright, graduate and professional students may reach out to Dean Robert Harper-Mangels (robert.harper-mangels@yale.edu) for Fulbright advice.
Yale Graduate and Professional School Resources:
- School of Architecture
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- The Forest School | Yale School of the Environment
- Yale Law School
- Yale Medical School
- Yale School of Public Health
- Japan-focused career goals - Nippon Foundation Fellows Program.
Fellowships through the Office of Fellowships
Find details of campus application deadlines and requirements for these via the Yale Student Grants Database:
- Richard U. Light Fellowship
- South Asian Language Fellowship
- Luce Scholars Program
- Rhodes Scholarships
Fellowship Programs advising for Yale graduate and professional students
The Office of Fellowships offers advice on the fellowships listed above and, time-permitting, we also offer advising on other fellowships for postgraduate study in Britain and some other external awards, including the Schwarzman Scholars Program and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Graduate students can also contact Dean Sarah Insley (Sarah.insley@yale.edu) in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for additional support.
For alumni
Questions to be asking
- What might you hope to do with the support of a fellowship?
- How does this fit into your longer-term plans and aspirations?
- What makes most sense for you?
Find a Fellowship
Self-designed Projects
- Explore options like Echoing Green, Fulbright, or Hays-Brandeis on our list of external awards
- Review external databases such as those listed on the searching for funding.
Internship, Job, or Volunteer Opportunities
- Check out fellowship options like the Coro, German Chancellor's Fellowship, Luce, Yale-China Teaching Fellowships and other external awards listed on our website
- Examin the list of gap-year and short-term opportunities and other resources offered by the Yale Office of Career Strategy.
Graduate and professional school
- Look for programs that suit your preparation, interests, longer term goals, and future aspirations. Seek out a Yale professor in the relevant field for advice.
- Where are the best places to study what you're hoping to? (If graduate study in the United Kingdom or Ireland sounds like a good idea, find further advice here.)
- If professional school interests you, you'll find great advice at the Office of Career Strategy.
Find funding for graduate or professional school:
- Inquire with the schools to which you are applying
- External Awards (Non-Yale)
- External Funding Databases
Advising
Fellowship Programs offers one-on-one advising appointments, essay review (when permitted), and interview prep for Yale College alumni about:
- outside fellowships for which alumni must apply through our office (find a list here),
- any fellowship for postgraduate study in the United Kingdom and Ireland,
- Fulbright and other external awards (e.g., Pickering, Soros, etc.), time-permitting.
We offer remote and in-person advising.
Tip: The fall calendar is very crowded and advising spots are usually fully booked from late August until early October. When possible, book an appointment during the summer.
Although we're always glad to help if we can, Yale College alumni who are current graduate or professional students elsewhere are wise to seek fellowship advice from that institution (except in the case of fellowships requiring application through the undergraduate institution).