Competitive Fellowships & International Advanced Study

Competitive Fellowships, Seminars and Research Programs

Below you will find a short list that provides a sampling of the many available fellowships and graduate programs with some form of emphasis on international study—enjoy exploring! You'll also find a good overview of the key qualities of a foreign service officer on the  U.S. State Department page for careers representing the United States.  Let us know of other competitive programs with an international focus (fellowships, scholarships, academies, research awards) we can add to this list. 

Undergraduate Opportunities:

• • Boren Scholarship Program
  • Critical Languages Scholarship Program (competitive, prestigious intensive summer language immersion program)
  • Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals (a year of study and internship experience in Germany)
  • DAAD Summer Research (RISE) and  Summer Programs (for example, the  Emigre Memorial German Internship Program in the German parliament, the Bundestag)
  • UK Summer Institutes - Fulbright Commission (especially designed for students who do not have extensive international travel experience)
  • Millennium Fellows Program ( a semester-long leadership development program sponsored by the United Nations with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, occurring on your campus to take your social impact to the next level; access to world class training, connections, and recognition)
  • Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA), Junior Summer Institute for rising seniors
  • Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Program
  • Summer Peace Building Institute at Eastern Mennonite University
  • RIT Summer Program in Kosovo - Peace and Conflict Studies

Graduate Opportunities (competitive fellowships of interest in your senior year or after graduation from Knox):

• • American Councils: Overseas Professional and Intercultural Training Program (OPIT) - six-week, English language internships for undergraduates as well as graduate students and working professionals)
  • American Council of Learned Societies: Advancing the Humanities - Fellowship Program
  • Boren Fellowship Program (intensive language study in critical languages at the graduate level)
  • DAAD-US Home Page
  • Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Research and English Teaching Assistant (ETA) awards)
  • Fulbright National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship
  • James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Humanity in Action
  • The Marshall Scholarship (The award supports young Americans of high ability to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom; up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at a graduate level at any UK institution in any field of study.)
  • The Mitchell Scholarship (US-Ireland Alliance) (Up to twelve Mitchell Scholars between the ages of 18 and 30 are chosen annually for one academic year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland.)
  • USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program
  • Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program
  • Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program
  • Herbert Scofield, Jr. Peace Fellowship
  • Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) (a unique two-year cultural immersion fellowship for candidates (young professionals) interested in foreign affairs or cultures)
  • FAO Schwarz Fellowship for Social Change
  • Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs
  • American-Scandinavian Foundation (providing grants for graduate study at major Scandinavian universities) 
  • St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia Scholarship (for study in Scotland at one of the prestigious participating universities)
  • The American University in Cairo: Presidential Internship Program
  • The Menar Fellowship Program (one-year post-graduate fellowships in the Middle East and North Africa, fostering a new generation of U.S. leaders in service, politics and policy)
  • Schwarzman Scholars Program (at Tzinghua University)
  • Yenching Scholarship Program (at Peking University)
  • Yenching Academy
  • Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Scholarship Program (a prestigious, integrated, international study programme, jointly delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions)
  • SIT Graduate Institute
  • William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India (American India Foundation)