Scholarships & Opportunities

One Young World Summit — Leading Scholarship

Full (scholarship route)

Deadline: Rolling until ~31 October

Generation Google Scholarship (EMEA)

Partial (€7,000/year)

Deadline: Annual (varies)

Women Techmakers Scholars Program (AnitaB / Google)

Partial (~$10,000)

Deadline: Annual (~May)

OWSD PhD Fellowship

Full

Deadline: N/A — no current call

OWSD Early Career Fellowship (women in STEM)

Up to USD $50,000 research grant

Deadline: Historically ~March

Aspen New Voices Fellowship

Full

Deadline: Annual (varies)

Obama Foundation Scholars / Leaders Programs

Full (Scholars residential program)

Deadline: ~mid-December (Scholars); ~December (Leaders)

Yenching Academy Scholarship (Peking University)

Full

Deadline: ~October-November

Rotary Peace Fellowship

Full

Deadline: ~15 May

Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Full (up to 3 years)

Deadline: ~October (plus a separate Stanford program application)

Schwarzman Scholars

Full

Deadline: ~September/October

Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship

Full

Deadline: Via US Embassy, commonly ~June-July

Pan African University (PAU) Scholarships — African Union

Full

Deadline: Annual call, recent cycle 15 Nov-15 Dec

AIMS Rwanda PhD & Postdoc Fellowships

Full

Deadline: Aligned with AIMS annual cycle

AIMS Cooperative Master’s

Full

Deadline: Aligned with AIMS annual cycle

AIMS MathEpi (with University of Toronto)

Full

Deadline: Aligned with AIMS annual cycle

AMMI — African Master’s in Machine Intelligence

Full

Deadline: Aligned with AIMS annual cycle

AIMS Master’s in Mathematical Sciences (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences)

Full

Deadline: Varies by centre (~31 August for South Africa 2026/27 cycle)

VLIR-UOS ICP Connect Scholarships (Belgium)

Full

Deadline: Varies by program, generally ~1-28 February

Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

Full

Deadline: Two windows: ~Jan-Feb and ~March-May