National Scholarships
Highly engaged, passionate honors students make excellent candidates for a wide variety of national-level scholarships. Many of the scholarships listed here require a university endorsement - a process which is managed through honors at many colleges and universities. Some institutions may have a separate Major Scholarships or Fellowships office that advises students and organizes the process.
The list of opportunities below is not comprehensive and we welcome suggestions to continue to grow this list.
- American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship and Grant
- Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
- Beinecke Scholarship
- Boren Scholarship
- Boren Fellowships
- Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program
- Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship
- Churchill Scholarship
- Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF)
- Confucius Institute Scholarship
- Critical Language Scholarship – Intensive Summer Institutes
- DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Undergraduate Scholarship
- DAAD Graduate Study or Research Scholarship
- DAAD RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering)
- DAAD RISE Professional
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- Fulbright Canada – STEM Program
- Fulbright UK Summer Institutes
- Freeman Asia Scholarship
- Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- Gilman International Scholarship
- Goldwater Scholarship Program
- Humanity in Action Fellowship
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
- James Madison Graduate Fellowship
- Knight-Hennessy Scholars
- Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
- Luce Scholars
- Marshall Scholarship
- Mitchell Scholarship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
- Phi Kappa Phi Awards & Grants
- Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
- Public Policy and International Affairs Program
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Schwarzman Scholars
- Science, Mathematics, & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship
- Truman Scholarship
- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Udall Undergraduate Scholarship
- USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program
- Yenching Academy Scholarship
Major Scholarship Resources
Writing Personal Statements Online
A Handbook for Students Applying for Scholarships and Graduate Study by Joe Schall
Writing Recommendation Letters Online
A Handbook for Faculty by Joe Schall - advice for faculty crafting a recommendation letter
How to Ask for a Recommendation
from The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2016
National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA)
Member organization for national-level scholarship advisors
NCHC Major Scholarships Committee
The NCHC Major Scholarship Committee welcomes anyone currently working with or who wishes to learn more about these opportunities to join the committee meeting at the NCHC Annual Conference. The committee also offers both faculty and student focused presentations each year at the conference.