Scholarships List

Open Society wound down its scholarship programmes in 2021 and says no new competitions will be held

Open Society Scholarships Ended in 2021. What Replaced Them Pays $120,000 and Excludes Pakistan.

Open Society Scholarships Ended in 2021. What Replaced Them Pays $120,000 and Excludes Pakistan. Open Society Foundations scholarships were, for two decades, one of the few genuinely open doors for students from countries like Pakistan who wanted to study abroad and come back to change something. They closed five years ago. Open Society says so

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the two-stage nomination route and the April deadline for the Heydar Aliyev grant

Heydar Aliyev Grant 2027: Azerbaijan Pays Pakistanis to Study, But Not in Summer

Heydar Aliyev Grant 2027: Azerbaijan pays Pakistani students a monthly allowance, covers their tuition, and flies them home once a year. It also stops paying in July and August, and it will not accept an application you send yourself. Both of those facts come from the programme’s own call document, and neither appears in the

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HFSP postdoctoral fellowships pay around GBP 65,772 in the first year for three years

HFSP Fellowships: One of the Highest-Paid Postdocs in the World, and It Funds the Leap, Not the Continuation

HFSP Fellowships: One of the Highest-Paid Postdocs in the World, and It Funds the Leap, Not the Continuation Look at what the Human Frontier Science Program pays a postdoctoral researcher in the first year, from its own 2027 guidelines. United Kingdom: £65,772. France: €62,016. United States: US$59,460. Each rises in years two and three, the

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SQU has no scholarship form Hero graphic noting that Abdus Salam founded ICTP and the diploma runs one year in Triesteand that 1 February is the only date

SQU Oman Scholarship 2027: You Never Apply for It

SQU Oman Scholarship 2027: There is no SQU scholarship form. You will look for one, and you will not find it, because it does not exist. Sultan Qaboos University runs its international postgraduate scholarship on a different model from almost everything else we cover. You apply for admission. If SQU gives you an unconditional offer,

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Wellcome Trust Fellowships: Not for Students, and the Country Rules Change on 29 October

Wellcome Trust Fellowships: Not for Students, and the Country Rules Change on 29 October Students write to us asking how to get a Wellcome Trust scholarship for a PhD. We have to start with the hard part. Wellcome does not fund students, and it closed the scheme that used to. Its Doctoral Studentships page carries

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The Amelia Earhart Fellowship gives women in aerospace doctoral research US$12,000, closing 15 November 2026

Amelia Earhart Fellowship: US$12,000 for Women in Aerospace, Closing 15 November

Amelia Earhart Fellowship: US$12,000 for Women in Aerospace, Closing 15 November Most of what we write about turns out closed, paused, or shut to countries like yours. This one is open, it closes on 15 November 2026, and it accepts women of any nationality. No country list, No quota, No government nomination. Zonta International awards

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IBM has paused its 2026-2027 PhD Fellowship programme according to its own page

IBM PhD Fellowship: Paused for This Cycle, and You Could Never Apply Anyway

IBM PhD Fellowship: Paused for This Cycle, and You Could Never Apply Anyway Two facts settle this one, and neither appears in most articles about it. IBM has paused the programme. Its own Academic Awards page states that IBM Research has paused the 2026-2027 IBM PhD Fellowship Program, and that it expects to announce a

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The Meta PhD Research Fellowship pays 42,000 dollars a year plus full tuition for two years

Meta PhD Research Fellowship: $42,000 a Year, and a Funder Page Three Years Out of Date

Meta PhD Research Fellowship: $42,000 a Year, and a Funder Page Three Years Out of Date The Meta PhD Research Fellowship is one of the strongest industry awards a doctoral student can win. Two years of tuition and institutional fees paid in full, plus $42,000 a year as a stipend, plus an invitation to Meta’s

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The Microsoft Research Fellowship pays between US$17,000 and US$47,000 depending on the region of your university

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship: The Money Goes to Your University, Not to You

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship: The Money Goes to Your University, Not to You Microsoft runs this programme today as the Microsoft Research Fellowship, and the design differs from what most people picture when they search for a PhD fellowship. Two things surprise almost everyone who reads the official page carefully. The award goes to your

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The Women Techmakers Scholars Program is now the Generation Google Scholarship, run in four regions by IIE

Google Women Tech makers Scholars Program: The Name Is Gone, and Here Is What Replaced It

Google Women Tech makers Scholars Program: The Name Is Gone, and Here Is What Replaced It If you came here searching for the Google Women Tech makers Scholars Program, you are searching for a name that no longer runs. Google retired it. The scholarship itself continues under a new name, the Generation Google Scholarship, and

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