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Some non-Yale, external fellowships require a campus application process while others do not. Those without a campus application requirement will not be found in the Yale Student Grants Database. A selected list of external fellowships may be found below.

Point: Click here to find scholarships and fellowships for postgraduate study in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including the Gates, Marshall, Mitchell, and Rhodes

External Awards for Yale Students and Alums

The institutional evaluation and nomination processes for some of the following fellowships are coordinated by the Office of Fellowships. See the Yale Student Grants Database for details about campus application deadlines and procedures. See individual websites for all other deadlines and application requirements.

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CHOP Research Institute Summer Scholars Program (CRISSP)

Application Deadline: Typically due in January
Application Year: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities
Citizenship: US Citizen

CRISSP is a 10-week, full-time internship during which participants train under the direct supervision of a mentor responsible for a lab or research group and learn research design, techniques, and analysis. As part of their research experience, students complete an independent research project and present a poster at the conclusion of the program. Opportunities are available in basic/translational, clinical, and behavioral research teams.

Churchill Scholarship

Application Deadline: Typically due in October
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen

Supports one year of graduate study (including one-year research degrees) in science, mathematics, or engineering at Cambridge. The award provides payment of all university and college tuition fees at Cambridge, a maintenance allowance, and a travel allowance.

Commonwealth Scholarships

Application Deadline: Typically due in September
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts, Language Study
Citizenship: non-US Citizen

Support postgraduate study in the UK by citizens of Commonwealth countries, or for citizens of the UK postgraduate study in other Commonwealth countries. Application deadlines vary by program: see website.

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX)

Application Deadline: Typically due in November
Application Year: First-year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Citizenship: US Citizen

Supports a year in Germany: half spent studying and half pursuing an internship in any field.
Eligible are US citizens and nationals between the ages of 18 and 24. Application deadline typically in early December.

Coro Fellowship

Application Deadline: Typically due in January
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Uses the city as a classroom to train the next generation of change makers, through a full-time, nine-month, graduate-level experiential program offered in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and St. Louis. Eligible are graduating seniors/recent alumni.
Application deadline typically in mid-January.

DAAD Émigré Memorial German Internship Program

Application Deadline: Typically due in September
Application Year: First-year, Sophomore, Junior
Field: Social Science, Humanities
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

DAAD Émigré Memorial German Internship Program (EMGIP) offers internship opportunities for U.S. and Canadian students in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The internships are typically two months long between September and December and matched with students’ interests and experiences. In addition to contributing to the respective offices, interns have the opportunity to study legislative and administrative procedures in the German parliament. Students must be fluent in spoken German and possess excellent writing skills. German nationals are not eligible.

DAAD, the German Academic Exchange

Application Deadline: Typically due in November
Application Year: First-year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Supports a wide range of study and research in Germany, for undergraduates, graduates, doctoral candidates and post-docs.
Graduate Study Scholarships are open to graduating seniors and alumni; application deadlines typically in early November, but check website.
(Yale College students interested in the Yale-DAAD RISE program and/or Yale graduate students interested in the DAAD Graduate Research Scholarships should see the Yale Student Grants Database.)

Davidson Graduate Fellowship

Application Deadline: Typically due in December
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen

This graduate research fellowship at Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is a two-year fellowship program in collaboration with NOAA that gives graduate students the opportunity to conduct collaborative research at the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in NH. The Fellowship is designed to help NERRs address a key management question that helps understand drivers or impacts of environmental change, or the reciprocal effects on human or community resilience while providing the student with multidisciplinary research, professional development, networking, and mentoring. Potential areas of research at Great Bay NERR include salt marsh resilience, visitor motivation, improving outdoor access, habitat resilience, and aquaculture.

Davis Projects for Peace

Application Deadline: Typically due in January
Application Year: First-year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Field: Social Science, Humanities
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Support self-designed summer projects that “promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties.”
Eligible are Yale first-year students, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Campus application deadline typically in January.

Echoing Green

Application Deadline: Typically due in November
Application Year: Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Offers seed-funding and support for social entrepreneurs. Organizations must work toward solving social, environmental, economic, and/or political inequities; special opportunities for those interested in climate issues and black male achievement. Eligible applicants must be fluent in English and able to commit to working full-time on their organization (so usually graduating seniors, graduating graduate/professional students, and alumni).
Application deadline typically in November.

Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics

Application Deadline: Typically due in January
Application Year: Junior, Senior
Field: Social Science, Humanities
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Prizes are awarded on the basis of essays submitted. Eligible are full-time juniors and seniors at US institutions (US citizenship not required).
Application deadline typically in January.

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Artists

Application Deadline: Typically due in June
Application Year: First-year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: Arts
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Supports artists working in a representational style in painting, sculpting, drawing, and/or printmaking, who are in the early stages of their careers. Eligible are those aiming to make art a lifetime career.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Ertegun Graduate Scholarships in the Humanities

Application Deadline: Typically due in October
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: Humanities
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Fully support postgraduate degrees in the humanities at the University of Oxford. Eligible are applicants for a postgraduate degree course in the humanities: apply to the degree course of your choice and to the Ertegun by the January deadline in order to be considered.

Ford Foundation

Application Deadline: Typically due in November
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen

Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Predoctoral Fellowships support up to three years of doctoral study. Eligible are US citizens, nationals, and permanent residents applying for or in US doctoral programs.
Application deadline typically in mid-November.

Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship

Application Deadline: Typically due in January
Application Year: Sophomore, Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM
Citizenship: US Citizen

Funded by the U.S. Department of State, this two-year Fellowship program is a path to a career in the Foreign Service by providing academic funding for an IT-related degree, internships, professional development and mentorship – culminating in an appointment in the Foreign Service as a Diplomatic Technology Officer (DTO).

Foreign Agricultural Service Diversity Fellowship Program

Application Deadline: Typically due in October
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen

The FAS Diversity Fellowship Program will provide graduate fellowships to qualified individuals who will attend two-year graduate programs in Agribusiness or Agricultural Economics at U.S. universities, provide two summer internships – one domestic and one overseas, offer mentoring from a Foreign Service Officer, and provide professional development activities.

Forrest PhD Scholarships

Application Deadline: Typically due in October
Application Year: Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Supports four years of tuition, living expenses, and travel/research expenses for PhD students at one of five universities in Western Australia. Application opens in early September and closes late October.

Fulbright Grants for US Students

Application Deadline: Typically due in August
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen

Supports one year of study or research abroad in any discipline, or year-long English teaching assistantships (ETAs) in programs designed by the host countries. Yale College students apply during the summer before senior year; Yale College alumni not enrolled in a graduate program may also apply through Yale College. Graduate and professional students at Yale should contact Dean Robert Harper-Mangels (robert.harper-mangels@yale.edu).

Gates Cambridge Scholarships

Application Deadline: Typically due in September
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Supports graduate study in any discipline at the University of Cambridge. Eligible are citizens of any country apart from the UK. Application deadline is typically in early-October (October 9, 2019) for US applicants and the beginning of December for the international competition.

German Chancellor’s Fellowship

Application Deadline: Typically due in September
Application Year: Senior, Graduate Student and Alumni
Field: STEM, Social Science, Humanities, Arts
Can Support Graduate Study: Eligible
Citizenship: US Citizen, non-US Citizen

Supports a year in Germany for professional development, study, or research; prior knowledge of German is not a prerequisite. Eligible are citizens of Brazil, China, India, Russia, & the US who received bachelor’s degrees no more than 12 years ago.
Application deadline typically in September.

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