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Employment and Financial Aid
- EmploymentVarious employment resources collected by the International Student Services office.
- Federal AidSome international students are eligible for federal financial aid and to fill out the FAFSA.
Free Online Search Options
- College Board's Scholarship SearchLists scholarships and other types of financial aid programs from 3,300 national, state, public and private sources. The database is updated annually.
- FastWeb!This resource requires that you share an email address. Since they will send you periodic messages, you may want to consider using a secondary email account.
- International Education Financial Aid: AwardsSearch by keyword or filter results by country and/or subject of study.
- Peterson's Award DatabasePeterson's scholarship search lists awards from about 2,000 sponsors. This is the same database used to update Peterson's Scholarships, Grants and Prizes book. Requires registration - including email address.
- ScholarshipsCanada.comFor Canadian students.
- Student AwardsFor Canadian Students.
Subject-specific Listings and Search Engines
- American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research FellowshipsJunior Fellowship is relevant for non-Phd holders.
- Art Deadline ListArt contests and competitions, art jobs and internships, art scholarships and grants and fellowships, art festivals, call for entries/proposals/projects, and other opportunities. Premium service requires paid subscription.
- GrantsNet: Funding Opportunities for Training in the Biological and Medical SciencesFree database of hundreds of programs for training in the Biological and Medical Sciences. Also includes funding news and an email update service. A site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research"Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields."
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion FellowshipsFor those in the Humanities or Social Sciences
- SSRC: International Dissertation Research FellowshipsAvailable from the Social Science Research Council.
- Wenner-Gren FoundationGrants for Non US Scholars
- Woodrow Wilson National FellowshipsSee especially the Women & Gender Dissertation Fellowship and the Ethics Dissertation Fellowship
General Guides to Studying in the United States
- Resumes & Career Portal:Articles Related to International StudentsPart of a larger site dedicated to resume writing and the like, this section has pages/articles on just about every topic one could think of relevant to international students who are either considering or already undertaking study abroad in the US.
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