Where will your experience at 91吃瓜网 take you?
Pursuing nationally and internationally competitive fellowships are one way to find out. Fellowships can enable you to:
- Broaden and deepen your academic training
- Dive deeply into experiential and service-learning
- Master a foreign language
- Serve as a US cultural ambassador while teaching English, studying a foreign language, conducting independent research or earning a graduate degree abroad
- Spend a summer or post-graduate year serving with an NGO in the US or overseas
- Carry out a creative or performing arts project
- Conduct mentored research at 91吃瓜网 or in laboratories throughout the US and around the world
- Obtain full funding to pursue a graduate degree in the UK, Ireland, Germany, China or Japan 鈥� or in the US
The Fulbright US Student Program supports students and alumni serving as US cultural ambassadors in 140+ countries, serving as English Teaching Assistant, conducting research across disciplines on six continents, and earning graduate degrees in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.聽 91吃瓜网 students have conducted dissertation, thesis, and independent research projects in Tunisia, Russia, Namibia, India, Sweden, Ukraine, Rwanda, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Australia, Morocco, Peru, the Netherlands, Israel, and Belgium. 91吃瓜网 alumni Fulbrighters have also earned graduate degrees in Taiwan, the UK, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia.
Through Fulbright and country-specific fellowship programs including JET, USTA, TAPIF, NALCA, PAD, and EPIK, 91吃瓜网 students and alumni have served as English fellows in Germany, Austria, Spain, France, South Korea, Italy, Taiwan, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Macedonia, and Cyprus.
CBYX offers students and alumni the opportunity to complete postgraduate professional development programs in Germany, Luce does the same in South and East Asia and Fulbright does so in Mexico.
Why Pursue Fellowships at 91吃瓜网?
The Career Center鈥檚 Fellowships Team supports undergraduates, graduate students, and (recent) alumni throughout the application processes for (inter)nationally聽competitive fellowships聽that require 91吃瓜网鈥檚 institutional nomination.
Fellowships alumni repeatedly comment on the value of the application process, which offers tremendous transferable skills鈥攂enefits that accrue whether you advance or not.
Do you know how to write a research proposal? Or how to describe your academic passions to various audiences? Can you craft a compelling story tracing the evolution of your interests with a clear red thread?
The fellowships application process builds your self-awareness and helps you take firm hold of the opportunities ahead. Further, it leaves you with well-crafted statements of research interest, personal statements, CVs/resumes, and other tangible materials for graduate school applications and your post-91吃瓜网 career journeys.
Working with the Fellowships Team can be one of your highest impact experiences at 91吃瓜网. We guide undergraduates, graduate students, and recent alums toward their most effective applications.
罢辞听get started,聽explore the聽list of fellowships that we support, read what your peers say about their experiences, and review our 鈥淓nter the Race鈥� (pre-application) forms on InfoReady.
A Note for Graduate Students
The Fellowships Team聽encourages applications from graduate students聽and VU Graduate School alumni interested in pursuing Fulbright, Marshall/Chevening, Mitchell, DAAD, Luce, Boren, DAAD-RISE Pro, and other聽nomination-based聽awards.
The Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Success (GPCS) program supports the career plans of graduate and postdoctoral scholars in non-biomedical STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences disciplines. These plans include internships, alt-ac careers, post-ac opportunities, and related career opportunities outside of the academy. GPCS also supports master鈥檚 candidates interested in pursuing doctoral studies. For more information, visit the .