Post-Graduation Opportunities

National Fellowships & Scholar Programs

UN Careers
Learn about career opportunities within the United Nations and also read up what what they look for in applicants.  

Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation.

Fulbright
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.

Truman Scholarship Foundation
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation supports the graduate education of outstanding young people committed to public service leadership.

Cultural Vista Fellowship
The Cultural Vistas Fellowship affords underrepresented U.S. university students the unique opportunity to advance their career goals, develop global competencies, and experience life in another culture.

Humanity in Action Fellowship
Intensive and demanding, the Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of university students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today.

Institute for Current World Affairs Fellowship
The ICWA fellowship program aims to cultivate deep expertise in foreign countries and cultures through supporting fellows over two-year periods during which they carry out immersive programs of self-designed, independent study project abroad.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Each year the Carnegie Endowment offers approximately 10-12  fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and recent graduates. Carnegie fellows work as research assistants to the endowment's senior associates--research often includes international topics.

Payne International Development Fellowship
Open to US citizens who have not yet completed their first year of graduate study or will be entering graduate school for the first time in the next academic year. Fellows will both intern in Washington, DC, working on international issues, and will intern internationally with a USAID Mission.

Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
This fellowship provides funding to participants as they are prepared academically and professionally to enter the US Department of State Foreign Service. Women, members of minority groups, historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, and students with financial need are encouraged to apply.

McNair Scholars
The McNair Scholars Program is a federal TRIO program designed to prepare undergraduate students for graduate studies through involvement in research. McNair participants are either first-generation college students with financial need, or members of a group that is traditionally underrepresented in graduate education and have demonstrated strong academic potential.

(Public Policy & International Affairs Program (PPIA)
PPIA aims to promote the inclusion and full participation
of underrepresented groups in public service and to advance their leadership roles throughout our civic institutions
serving domestic and international affairs.

Rangel International Affairs Program
The Rangel Program is a collaborative effort between Howard University and the U.S. State Department that seeks to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers as diplomats in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. 

Scoville Peace Fellowship
Established in 1987 to recruit and train the next generation of policy and advocacy leaders, the Scoville Peace Fellowship provides recent college graduates with an opportunity to work with one of the participating public-interest organizations in Washington, DC. The fellowship bridges the gap between academia and the working world by providing an entree to socially-conscious people eager to learn about and contribute to the world of public-interest organizations.

American Institute for Economic Research
AIER’s fellowship introduces accomplished college students, post graduates and graduate students to the Institute’s mission, work, and research principles. Working closely with AIER research staff, summer fellows are immersed in the economic research process from “conception to completion”.

Region Specific Opportunities

Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)
The JET Program is a competitive  opportunity that allows young professionals to live and work in cities, towns, and villages throughout Japan. Being a JET is an opportunity to work and to represent the United States as cultural ambassadors to Japan. 

Japanese Government Scholarship/Graduate School
Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies International Relations Program offers scholarships for graduate study in Japan. 

The Blakemore Foundation for Asian Language Study
Since 1990, the Blakemore Foundation, with the support of The Freeman Foundation, has awarded over $17 million in grants to college graduates and young professionals for an academic year abroad in full-time intensive language study. The fellowships cover tuition and a stipend for related educational expenses, basic living costs and transportation.

Ameson Year in China Program
Ameson Year in China is a program that helps college graduates expand their horizons and enhance their careers by spending an academic year teaching, studying, and making a difference in placement sites across China.

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Fellowship Program
This program offers a two-tiered learning experience, internship and fellowship opportunties, designed to introduce recent college graduates to the diversity of career opportunities within the fields of museum sciences and support. 

Princeton in Latin America Fellowship
PiLA offers service experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean to match outstanding recent college graduates who are interested in year-long service fellowship opportunities with partner NGO and multilateral organizations.

Princeton in Asia Fellowships
PiA aims to foster mutual appreciation and cultural understanding by connecting service-minded graduates and partner organizations in Asia through immersive work experiences that transform perspectives and cultivate long-lasting friendships.

Princeton in Africa Fellowships
Princeton in Africa matches talented and passionate college graduates with organizations working across Africa for yearlong service placements. 

Global Health Corps
Global Health Corps provides a yearlong paid fellowship for young professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the frontlines of the fight for global health equity at existing health organizations and government agencies.

American Center of Oriental Research Fellowships
The American Center of Oriental Research offers a variety of fellowships at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels to support research on topics in the humanities, natural, and social sciences in Jordan.

MENAR Fellowship Program
One-year post-graduation fellowships to top graduates at leading organizations across the Middle East & North Africa. 

English Open Doors Program
An initiative supported by the Chilean Ministry of Education, this program was created in 2003 with the mission to improve the level of English for students between 5th grade and 12th grade throughout the Chilean public school system.

Alfa Fellowship Program
The Alfa Fellowship Program is a distinguished international initiative that each year offers up to 18 accomplished young Americans, Britons, and Germans the opportunity to complete a high-level professional development program in Russia.

The Congress-Bundestag Exchange for Young Professionals
CBYX is a a fellowship which annually provides 75 American and 75 German young professionals, between the ages of 18½–24, the opportunity to spend one year in each other’s countries, studying, interning, and living with hosts on a cultural immersion program.

Hopkins-Nanjing Fellowships
We are committed to producing innovative thinkers and problem-solvers, equipped to deal with complex Sino-global challenges around the world. Explore our programs delivered in Nanjing

The American India Foundation Clinton Fellowship
This fellowship pairs a select number of highly skilled young professionals with leading NGOs and social enterprises in India in order to accelerate impact and create effective projects that are replicable, scalable, and sustainable.

Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $15,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world.