AAUW International Fellowship to Study in the USA (Funded)

Award Amounts

• Master’s/first
  professional degree: $18,000
• Doctoral:
  $20,000
• Postdoctoral:
  $30,000

Time Line

Eligibility

• International
  Fellowships are not open to previous recipients of any AAUW national
  fellowship or grant (not including branch or local awards or Community
  Action Grants). Members and officers of the AAUW Board of Directors are
  not eligible to apply for fellowships and grant awards. AAUW staff or
  volunteers with decision-making authority who wish to apply for an award
  must recuse themselves from the decision-making process.

• Unsuccessful
  applicants may reapply.

• Have
  citizenship in a country other than the United States or possession of a
  nonimmigrant visa if residing in the United States. Women holding dual
  citizenship in the United States and another country or who are permanent
  legal residents of the United States are not eligible.

• Hold an
  academic degree (earned in the United States or abroad) equivalent to a U.S.
  bachelor’s degree completed by September 30, 2017.

• Intend
  to devote herself full-time to the proposed academic plan during the
  fellowship year

• Intend
  to return to her home country to pursue a professional career

• Be
  proficient in English. Unless the applicant can verify that her native
  language is English, that she received her secondary diploma or
  undergraduate degree from an English-speaking institution, or that she
  will have completed one semester of full-time study in her discipline at
  an English-speaking college or university between October 2015 and
  September 30, 2017 (transcript required for validation), she must upload a
  recent ETS TOEFL* (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score (no older than December
  2015). Institutional TOEFL scores and other English proficiency test
  scores (such as IELTS) will
  not be accepted. Minimum score acceptable: 550 for Paper-Based Test (TOEFL
  PBT); 79 for Internet-Based Test (TOEFL iBT); 60 for Revised TOEFL Paper-Delivered
  Test.

• Master’s/first
  professional degree and doctoral applicants must have applied by December
  1, 2017, to an accredited institution of study for the period of the
  fellowship year and must indicate the name of the institution in the
  International Fellowship application.

• Master’s/first
  professional degree fellowships are intended for master’s or professional
  degree-level programs such as J.D., M.F.A., L.L.M., M.Arch., or medical
  degrees such as M.D., D.D.S., etc.

• Doctoral
  fellowships are intended for doctorate degrees, such as Ph.D. or Ed.D.

• Postdoctoral
  applicants must provide proof of their doctorate degree; hold a doctorate
  classified as a research degree (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., D.M.) or an
  M.F.A. by December 1, 2017; and indicate where they will conduct their
  research.

• Master’s/first
  professional degree and doctoral applicants must be enrolled in a U.S.
  accredited institution located in the United States during the fellowship
  year.

• A
  limited number of awards are available to GWI members for study or
  research in any country other than their own. Note that foreign branches
  of U.S. institutions are considered outside
  of the United States.

• Applicants
  must be conducting a full year of study or research. International
  Fellowships do not provide funding for a partial year of study or
  research. Programs ending prior to April of the fellowship year are not
  eligible.

• Master’s/first
  professional degree and doctoral fellowships support traditional
  classroom-based courses of study at colleges or universities. This fellowship program
  does not provide funding for distance-learning or online programs or for
  degrees heavily dependent on distance-learning components.
  Final decisions about what constitutes distance learning under these
  fellowships will be made by AAUW.

Criteria for Selection and
Application Review

• Residing
  in home country at time of application
• Position
  on return to home country
• Academic
  and/or professional qualifications
• Applicant’s
  commitment to the advancement of women and girls in her home country
• Proposed
  time schedule
• Quality
  and feasibility of proposed plan of study or research
• Demonstrated
  evidence of prior community and/or civic service in home country
• Applicant’s
  country’s need for the specialized knowledge or skill
• Financial
  need
• Motivation
  for graduate study or research
• Applicant
  is from an underrepresented area of the country and/or type of university
  other than a top-level research institution