AAUW International Fellowship 2024/2025 for Women in the USA

AAUW International Fellowship 2024/2025 for Women in the USA: AAUW International Fellowships are awarded to non-citizen or permanent resident women for full-time study or research in the United States. Graduate and postgraduate studies at accredited institutions in the United States are supported.

Recipients are chosen based on their academic performance and commitment to women and girls. Recipients return home to become leaders in commerce, government, academia, community activism, the arts, and the sciences. Masters, Ph.D./Postdoctoral, and Fellowship

AAUW International Fellowship 2024/2025 for Women in the USA: Eligibility requirements

Former recipients of any AAUW national fellowship or grant (excluding branch or local awards and Community Action Grants) are ineligible for International Fellowships.

AAUW’s board of directors, committees, panels, task forces, and staff, including current trainees, are ineligible to apply for fellowships and grants. A current award holder is eligible for election or appointment to boards, committees, commissions, and task forces.

International Fellowships are available to women, including those who identify as women, in any field of study at an accredited institution of higher education or in research for postdoctoral fellows. AAUW will make the ultimate determination regarding which institutions are eligible.

Applicants who were unsuccessful may reapply.

To qualify for an International Fellowship, candidates must satisfy the following requirements:

• Possess citizenship in a country other than the United States or a nonimmigrant visa if living in the United States. Women who are currently U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or dual citizens of the U.S. and another country, or who expect to be during the fellowship year, are not eligible.
• Hold, by the application deadline, a degree (acquired in the U.S. or abroad) equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree.
• During the fellowship year, intend to devote themselves full-time to the proposed academic plan.
• After completing their studies, they intend to pursue a professional vocation in their home country.
• Be proficient in English and submit one of the Required Components (see below), which includes certain English proficiency examinations, transcripts from English-speaking institutions, or a statement confirming English is the applicant’s native tongue. Applicants who intend to take one of the accepted English proficiency exams should schedule and take the examination as soon as feasible. Please direct any queries regarding the tests to the test administrator.
• Master’s/first professional degree and doctoral applicants must have applied to an accredited institution of study for the fellowship year by the AAUW application deadline and must specify the name of the institution on the International Fellowship application. Although acceptance is not required at the time of application, scholars must include official institution confirmation with their award acceptance materials.
• Master’s/first professional degree fellowships are designed for programmes leading to a master’s or professional degree, such as J.D., M.F.A., L.L.M., M.Arch., or medical degrees such as M.D., D.D.S., etc. Ineligible are certificates, associate degrees, and bachelor’s degrees.
• Doctoral fellowships are intended for research-based doctoral degrees, such as the Ph.D. or Ed.D.
• Postdoctoral applicants must provide evidence of their doctorate degree; possess a doctorate designated as a research degree (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., D.M.) or an M.F.A. by the application deadline; and specify where they will conduct their research.
• During the fellowship year, master’s/first professional degree and doctoral applicants must be enrolled at a U.S.-accredited institution located in the United States.
• Graduate Women International members are eligible for a limited number of grants for study or research in any country other than their own. Foreign affiliates of U.S. institutions are considered to be located outside the United States.
• Applicants may apply for the fellowship during any year of their programme, but they must be engaged in a complete academic or research year. International Fellowships do not support a partial academic or research year. Ineligible are programmes ending prior to April of the fellowship year.
• Master’s/first professional degree and doctoral fellowships support traditional classroom-based courses of study in universities and colleges. This fellowship programme does not provide funding for distance-learning or online programmes, as well as degrees that rely significantly on distance-learning components. AAUW will make the final determinations regarding what constitutes distance learning for these fellowships. AAUW will allow applications from candidates who are studying remotely temporarily due to COVID-19 precautions at their institution.

The following selection criteria apply to the awarding of International Fellowships

• residing in the native nation at the time of application
• Position regarding return to native land
• Educational and/or professional credentials
• Applicant’s dedication to advancing women and girls in her native country
• The proposed timetable
• Quality and practicability of proposed study or research proposal
• Prior community and/or civic service in native country must be demonstrated.
• Need in the applicant’s country for the specialised knowledge or ability
• Financial difficulties
• Inspiration for postgraduate research or study
• Applicant is from a geographically or academically underrepresented region or institution type other than a top-tier research university.
• Up to five fellowships are renewable for a second academic year.

Valuation of Honours:

• Fellowship for Master’s/First Professional Degree: $18,000
• $20,000 Doctoral Fellowship
• $30,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship

Application Deadline: 15th November 2023

Eligible Countries: All countries except US citizens

Accepted Subject Areas? Courses offered at the Universities

Important Notes

If the deadline falls on a weekend, applications, supporting materials, and recommendations will be accepted the following business day. The actual submission deadline will be specified on the application and recommendation forms.