• What’s provided: Each award is for up to $90,000. The financial breakdown is as follows: Each Fellow receives $25,000 in stipend support a year (all stipend awards are capped at $50,000 per year), as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for one to two years. The first year of Fellowship funding cannot be deferred.
• Location: Anywhere in the U.S.
• Field of Study/Work/Focus Area/Industry: All
• Program Type: Graduate Funding
• Duration: One to two years

Eligibility

• An applicant's birth parents must have both been born outside of the U.S. as non-U.S. citizens, and both parents must not have been eligible for U.S. citizenship at the time of their births.
• U.S. Citizen by birth, U.S. Citizen by naturalization, permanent resident, refugee & asylees in the U.S., current and past DACA recipients, or graduated from high school and college in the U.S. are eligible to apply.
• Must be a current college senior or young professional planning to start an eligible graduate degree, or currently enrolled graduate student who has not yet started a third year (for PhDs) or subsequent year of the program (for two-year Master's) before the start of the grant.
• Must be 30 or younger as of the deadline to apply.

Timeline

How to Apply