Internships, returnship programs, and career development resources — whether you're entering STEM for the first time, returning after a break, or advancing mid-career.
Structured, paid programs for people returning to STEM after a career break — typically 8–16 weeks with a path to a full-time offer.
A nonprofit that partners with major companies to offer paid returnship programs for professionals returning to work after a career break fo…
A Society of Women Engineers initiative connecting women returning to engineering after a career break with corporate return-to-work program…
The Association for Women in Science offers multiple annual scholarships including the Distinguished Doctoral Research Scholarship ($10,000)…
The UK's only fellowship program specifically for researchers returning to STEM after a career break of two or more years, combining a perso…
A fellowship program launched in 2004 awarding women from developing and emerging economies up to $50,000 per year to pursue PhD or postdoct…
NIH / Office of Research on Women's Health
NIH administrative supplements that enable researchers returning to biomedical research after a career break of two or more years due to per…
A paid summer software engineering internship at Google designed for first- and second-year undergraduate students from groups historically …
Microsoft
A 16-week paid apprenticeship program at Microsoft for career-changers with non-traditional backgrounds — including bootcamp graduates and c…
JPMorgan Chase
A paid 15-week returnship program at JPMorgan Chase for experienced professionals, including technologists, who have been out of the workfor…
Fellowships of $20,000 to $50,000 for women who are not US citizens or permanent residents to pursue full-time graduate or postgraduate stud…
Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Up to two awards of $2,500 each for STEM-credentialed professionals returning to careers after being out of the workforce for more than one …
Society of Women Engineers
$2,000 scholarship (established 1978) for women returning to engineering or computer science after a career gap of at least two years out of…
Amazon
Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and other business units …
A continually updated directory of paid employer return-to-work programs (returnships) worldwide, many in STEM and technology, for experienc…
Amazon
A return-to-work program for women who have taken a career break of 12 months or more and are re-entering the workforce, including in techni…
reacHIRE runs return-to-work programs that place professionals coming off a career break directly into paid roles at partner employers, typi…
Audible
A paid full-time returnship at Audible for experienced professionals re-entering the workforce after a caregiving break, spanning technology…
Cisco
Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career break of at least a ye…
Princeton University
NSF REU training site providing computational-biology research experience, with a focus on supporting formerly incarcerated undergraduate st…
Swiss National Science Foundation
Enables postdoctoral researchers connected to Switzerland to undertake a research stay abroad to strengthen their academic profile, with a 2…
Austria's FWF Science Fund funds early-career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research abroad at a leading international host institutio…
A UK program offering paid return-to-work placements for experienced STEM professionals re-entering the workforce.
Returnship program helping women with career breaks re-enter technical careers in IT and engineering through paid structured returnships and…
Provides coding and business/tech training plus reentry support to incarcerated men and women across facilities in multiple states, with rec…
LinkedIn REACH is a registered technical apprenticeship for people from non-traditional backgrounds - bootcamp grads, self-taught developers…
SAP's Returnship is a paid return-to-work program for experienced professionals re-entering the tech workforce after a career break.
Dell Career ReStart is a paid returnship helping experienced professionals return to technology roles after a career break.
Accenture's Technology Return to Work is a paid returnship supporting experienced professionals re-entering technology careers after a break…
A Canada-wide $25,000 award for a woman in the second or third year of an undergraduate engineering program at a Canadian university, create…
Three national scholarship streams from the federation of provincial engineering regulators: eight Engineers Canada Leadership Scholarships …
A UK return-to-work programme for experienced technologists re-entering the industry after a career break, aimed particularly at people retu…
Texas State University
An intensive multi-summer residential mathematics programme at Texas State University's Mathworks, admitting high school students of all soc…
A full-time paid returnship for technical professionals who have taken a career break of one year or more. Participants refresh their skills…
A government-funded scholarship programme that places international students at universities across Türkiye at associate, bachelor's, master…
A 12-month paid returnship at the power management company Eaton for people restarting an engineering or technical career after a break. Par…
SNOLAB
Paid four- to sixteen-month work terms at SNOLAB, the deep underground astroparticle physics laboratory about 25 km from Sudbury, Ontario. E…
Internships, apprenticeships, and structured entry pipelines at major tech and science employers — with structured early-career tracks.
An 11-month tuition-free software engineering program for women and gender-expansive adults, covering full-stack web development through a s…
A fellowship supporting exceptional PhD students in computing and related disciplines, providing tuition, stipend, and a paid research inter…
U.S. Department of Energy
A nationally competitive program placing undergraduate students at DOE national laboratories to conduct research alongside world-class scien…
A paid internship and mentorship program for undergraduate women and gender-minority students passionate about aerospace, providing a summer…
Intel
A scholarship of €3,000 for women enrolled in undergraduate engineering or computer science programs at Irish universities, paired with a pa…
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, engineering, or related…
Amazon
$40,000 scholarship (paid over 4 years) for high school seniors from underrepresented and low-income backgrounds planning to study computer …
NASA MUREP
Scholarship for undergraduate students at women's colleges and universities pursuing STEM degrees. Provides up to $9,000 academic stipend pl…
Microsoft Research
Fellowship for second-year PhD students from underrepresented groups in computing including women. Covers tuition and fees for three years p…
National GEM Consortium
Provides opportunities for underrepresented minority students to pursue graduate education in applied science and engineering through paid s…
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE CCI offers community college students 10-week paid internships at one of 17 DOE national laboratories, providing hands-on technical expe…
National Institutes of Health
The NIH SIP provides undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, and medical students with hands-on research experience at NIH's Bethesda c…
NASA
NASA offers competitive paid internships across all NASA centers for college students pursuing STEM majors, with 10-week summer sessions and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The NOAA Hollings Scholarship provides academically talented undergraduates studying ocean, coastal, atmospheric, and related sciences with …
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia offers summer, year-round, and co-op internships for undergraduates and graduates across engineering, computer science, cybersecurity…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory / ORISE
ORISE administers competitive paid research internships and fellowships for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers …
U.S. Department of Defense
The DOD SMART Scholarship provides full tuition, generous annual stipend, and summer research internships to undergraduates and graduate stu…
Microsoft
A 12-week summer internship at Microsoft for first- and second-year undergraduates to explore careers in software engineering and product ma…
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in AI, machine learning,…
Apple
Apple offers paid internships across hardware engineering, software engineering, machine learning, and design for undergraduate and graduate…
IBM
A free virtual skills-building program for undergraduates providing exposure to IBM technology, career paths, and culture through online mod…
Palantir Technologies
A fellowship designed for students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech, offering mentorship, networking, and a pathway to Palantir int…
Jane Street
Highly competitive paid internships in software engineering, trading, research, and quantitative finance, providing deep exposure to functio…
Software Freedom Conservancy
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias and underrepresenta…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A cost-free six-week summer program at MIT, run by the Center for Excellence in Education, bringing together about 100 top high school junio…
An eight-week paid summer program, administered by ASEE for the U.S. Navy, that places academically talented high school students as apprent…
A summer research internship placing undergraduates from North American, British, and Irish universities with research groups at German univ…
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
An NIH/NCI-funded summer internship in laboratory or clinical research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis for students prep…
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A 12-week paid summer internship at Fermilab for undergraduate sophomores and juniors majoring in physics, engineering (mechanical, electric…
Matthew Isakowitz Foundation
An annual award presented by the Commercial Space Federation in partnership with the Matthew Isakowitz Foundation Programs, supporting colle…
Patti Grace Smith Fellowship
An award-winning fellowship that gives extraordinary undergraduates their first work experience in the aerospace industry, pairing a paid su…
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
A ten-week summer research internship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, for well-prepar…
U.S. Geological Survey
One of the longest continuously running science internship programs in the United States (since 1965), administered by the U.S. Geological S…
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A USDA scholarship for U.S. citizens pursuing a bachelor's degree at one of the nineteen 1890 land-grant universities in agriculture, food, …
The Actuarial Foundation
A renewable scholarship from The Actuarial Foundation supporting high school seniors pursuing careers in mathematics and the actuarial profe…
NASA
NASA's federal internship program that develops future civil servants across engineering, science, technology, and business disciplines at N…
A fellowship for full-time doctoral students working in data science and related fields including natural language processing, machine learn…
A fully funded 10-week summer research internship within the Novartis Biomedical Research division for undergraduate students with minimal p…
A global non-profit that arranges paid, on-site STEM (science, engineering, and technology) internships abroad for university students acros…
George Mason University
A nationally recognized eight-week summer research internship at George Mason University for high school and undergraduate students, offerin…
Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two years of financial s…
Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA)
A ten-week summer research internship operated by the Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute near NASA…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
A paid summer internship at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, giving undergraduate and graduate student…
The Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation offers numerous named scholarships to full-time undergraduate students majoring in plastics eng…
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation awards scholarships paired with paid summer internships at steel companies to …
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
An intensive nine-week biomedical research internship for undergraduates entering their final year of study, based in Seattle. Interns compl…
Scripps Research
A ten-week summer research internship at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, placing undergraduates in one of the institute's laborato…
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
An eight-week full-time research internship at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, where undergraduates work under a …
Van Andel Institute
A ten-week paid summer internship in basic biomedical research at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, exploring disease at th…
Apprenti is a nationally recognized, U.S. Department of Labor-registered tech apprenticeship program that places candidates into roles such …
Multiverse delivers employer-based apprenticeships in software engineering, data, and AI, where apprentices learn on the job in a real busin…
The Homeland Security Professional Opportunities for Student Workforce to Experience Research (HS-POWER) program, sponsored by the DHS Scien…
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A paid summer internship at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, where undergraduates work with staff scientists on X-ray free-electron laser…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid summer research internship at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory placing undergraduates on fusion-energy and plasma-science proj…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
A paid internship at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory focused on the operational, technical, and engineering-support side of running a na…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A 12-week paid summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in data science,…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A paid summer internship at LLNL's National Ignition Facility and Photon Science directorate, placing undergraduate and graduate students on…
Argonne National Laboratory
A paid Argonne National Laboratory program that helps undergraduates from a range of backgrounds transition into hands-on research internshi…
National Institute of Standards and Technology
A NIST fellowship providing graduate and doctoral students full graduate-school tuition, a stipend, and paid internship experience conductin…
UK Research and Innovation
A funded three-month internship placing UKRI-funded doctoral students with UK government and parliamentary host organisations to gain scienc…
A paid summer internship at Hudson River Trading for second-year undergraduates that rotates participants through the Algorithm Development …
A paid trading internship at the market-making firm Optiver, offering hands-on training in options theory and live-market simulation for stu…
University of Washington
A nine-week paid summer internship through the UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, placing undergraduates wi…
AnitaB.org
A paid, hands-on apprenticeship from AnitaB.org helping people from underrepresented groups enter tech careers, with a high full-time employ…
Cyber Skyline / National Cyber League
Puzzle-based, capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition and learning community for high school, college and bootcamp students to build and …
Boston University
Six-week summer program for rising high school seniors to conduct university laboratory research (Internship track) or structured group rese…
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Paid research internships and NSF REU site (since 2001) in environmental chemistry, marine and estuarine ecology, molecular ecology and terr…
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mentored research internships across technical and scientific fields (physics, computing, engineering and more) at Los Alamos National Labor…
The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) offers numerous scholarships for students in the pulp, paper, packaging, an…
ASEV annually awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in enology, viticulture, or a science basic to the…
The Non-Ferrous Founders' Society awards the $2,500 Mary & Louis Iannettoni Memorial Scholarship to undergraduate students pursuing educatio…
University of Connecticut
An NSF-funded summer research internship at the University of Connecticut's Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, giving undergraduates…
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (William & Mary)
A paid summer research internship in coastal and marine science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Statewide California Earthquake Center
An undergraduate internship program in earthquake science coordinated by the Statewide California Earthquake Center.
EarthScope Consortium
A multi-year internship in solid-earth geoscience research for undergraduates, run by the EarthScope Consortium.
A program connecting undergraduate women and underrepresented students to computing and AI coursework, skills, and industry experience.
A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and internships.
The American Dairy Science Association awards a stipend and plaque to a distinguished dairy-science undergraduate demonstrating leadership, …
The SCTE Foundation provides scholarships and grants to students pursuing engineering and software-development careers in the broadband conn…
Nonprofit providing high schoolers from underserved communities with technical skills training and paid corporate internships in tech and bu…
The National Precast Concrete Association Foundation awards scholarships to students enrolled in civil engineering, architectural, construct…
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering Foundation provides tuition scholarships to university and college students pursuin…
The Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation awards up to 18 scholarships annually (including the Charles W. Finkl, Al Underys M…
The AGMA Foundation (now the Motion + Power Manufacturers Alliance Foundation) awards scholarships to engineering students pursuing careers …
TÜBİTAK's BİDEB 2232 program (with companion 2232-B for early-stage researchers) funds highly qualified scientists to establish research in …
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
A ten-week summer laboratory internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for undergraduates interested in biomedic…
Free Texas-based nonprofit helping underrepresented and low-income high school students build technical skills through after-school coding s…
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute
A 10-week mentored summer internship at the CHOP Research Institute designed to prepare undergraduates for careers in pediatric research and…
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
An umbrella program uniting roughly 120 undergraduates across about 13 mentored summer biomedical research tracks at Vanderbilt University S…
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
SPARK (Summer Program for the Advancement of Research Knowledge) is a donor-funded 10-week, full-time summer research internship for undergr…
Seattle Children's Research Institute
A nine-week paid summer research internship at Seattle Children's Research Institute where undergraduates conduct basic, clinical, community…
Laboratoria is a nonprofit that helps women across Latin America build careers in the digital economy. After a decade as a coding bootcamp, …
Talent for Good is a paid, DOL-registered Salesforce apprenticeship from Cloud for Good that trains people from non-traditional backgrounds …
West Virginia University / Marshall University
A nine-week mentored biomedical research internship (May 26-July 28, 2026) for students at WV-INBRE partner and community/technical colleges…
University of New Mexico (NM-INBRE)
An 8-week, full-time summer research program with Bootcamp, Internship, and Bioinformatics tracks for New Mexico and RAIN-network undergradu…
University of Hawaii at Manoa
A two-month summer mentored research internship in cancer biology at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center for undergraduates from RAIN-net…
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
A summer internship at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology giving undergraduate and master's students hands-on experience in genomic…
Oregon Health & Science University (ONPRC)
An 8-week mentored research apprenticeship at OHSU's Oregon National Primate Research Center for rising sophomores and juniors, culminating …
Cleveland Clinic (Lerner Research Institute)
A 10-week paid summer internship at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute giving undergraduates hands-on experience in biomedical res…
A U.S. modern youth apprenticeship organization placing high school students into multi-year paid apprenticeships in pathways including info…
The American Public Power Association's DEED program funds student research grants, internships, and technical scholarships for undergraduat…
The Alabama member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student scholars…
The Alaska member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student scholarsh…
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The California member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student schol…
The Colorado member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student scholar…
The Connecticut member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student scho…
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The District of Columbia member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund stu…
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The Maryland member of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, a network of 52 state consortia that fund student scholar…
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A paid research internship program that places graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Canadian universities on applied projects with …
A joint venture of Macquarie University, UNSW, the University of Sydney, and UTS that builds quantum-technology pathways from undergraduate …
Top-up scholarships and co-supervised research projects that place PhD and masters students inside CSIRO research teams while they remain en…
A UK scholarship programme run by the educational charity The Smallpeice Trust that identifies and supports high-potential students aged 16 …
The UK National Cyber Security Centre's programme for developing young cyber security talent, spanning free courses for 11 to 17 year olds, …
A Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub programme for engineers and technologists commercialising a deep-tech innovation. Fellows rece…
The Engineering Development Trust runs UK-wide STEM experiences for school and college students, centred on the Industrial Cadets accreditat…
An American Chemical Society programme placing high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in paid summer research inte…
Summer school and research internship programs run by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, for undergraduat…
Annual awards from the Society of Chemical Industry Canada Group recognising the student who achieves the highest standing in the fourth and…
Conference scholarships from the American Statistical Association covering registration for the annual Women in Statistics and Data Science …
A scholarship funded by Jenoptik and administered by SPIE for students on technician-track photonics and optics programmes, typically at com…
A seven-week summer research internship run by the KAIST Advanced Institute for Science-X in Daejeon, South Korea, for international undergr…
A paid 10- to 12-week summer research internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Interns are matched with …
A paid summer internship in the Media and Communications Office at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, writing news and feature s…
A 10-week, full-time summer internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Interns are partnered with a JPL scienti…
Awards of up to $3,000 from the Society of Toxicology to doctoral students undertaking a toxicology internship outside their own academic in…
A 10- to 11-week paid summer research assistantship at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, home of the world's largest fully steera…
A $5,000 scholarship for a California high school senior planning to pursue a degree in a soil science-related field, selected on leadership…
An eight-week residential summer program at the University of Pittsburgh designed to build interest in public health among college students,…
A hands-on STEM program run by the SEMI Foundation for K-12 students, introducing them to microelectronics and semiconductor careers through…
Registered apprenticeship programs sponsored nationally by the SEMI Foundation, which serves as a U.S. Department of Labor-approved national…
An immersive SEMI Foundation experience introducing students and families to the technology, innovation and careers shaping the semiconducto…
Internship routes into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including paid Pathways Intern positions for students enrolled half-time or…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's federal internship and early-career hiring route for current students and recent graduates. The Inte…
Paid internships and streamlined hiring for current students and recent graduates at the U.S. Geological Survey, spanning earth science, hyd…
A CSIRO funding program supporting scholarships for Australian postgraduate research and coursework study, including Honours and Masters, de…
University of Tokyo
An intensive summer research internship run by the School of Science at the University of Tokyo for undergraduates who intend to pursue a ma…
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
A laboratory research internship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, open to students in the final two years of a b…
Paid internships at Boeing for undergraduate and graduate students across engineering (aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, ind…
Internships and co-ops for undergraduate and graduate students across Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and M…
Summer internships and co-ops across Northrop Grumman's aircraft, space, cyber and missile systems businesses, open to students in science, …
Paid internships and co-ops at Genentech for students and recent graduates working alongside biotech researchers and engineers on live proje…
Honeywell's worldwide internship program places students across the enterprise on projects tied to live business goals. Engineering internsh…
Chevron organises its student internships by discipline, spanning engineering, earth science/geoscience, technology, finance and operations.…
Siemens' student and early career portfolio covers internships and development programs across engineering, computer science, digitalisation…
Pfizer Futures is the company's paid 10-12 week summer internship for undergraduate students, placing interns on live projects across the bi…
A multi-year Pfizer fellowship that combines a summer internship, sponsored master's-level study and a guaranteed full-time role, aimed at s…
Oracle's summer internships for university students span product development and software engineering as well as finance, sales, marketing a…
Texas Instruments recruits students and new graduates into semiconductor internships, co-ops and early career roles, with technical and prof…
Futureforce is Salesforce's university programme. The flagship summer internship runs 8-12 weeks and hires students worldwide across technol…
Paid internships and co-ops at ExxonMobil for students in chemical, mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, petroleum, environmental and …
AstraZeneca's early talent portfolio includes internships, industrial placements and graduate programmes across the global business. The Res…
Bosch hires hundreds of interns each year in the United States and runs co-op programs at selected universities, giving students responsibil…
GM's paid internships run 10-12 weeks and are open to full-time students and recent graduates in degree areas matching the company's busines…
BASF offers international internships of roughly three to six months for students enrolled at a university for the whole placement. Research…
Stripe's emerging talent programme covers internships, apprenticeships and early career roles for undergraduate and graduate students. The l…
Cummins' student careers hub lists internships, co-ops and graduate development opportunities across the power and propulsion technology bus…
GSK's early talent portfolio spans apprenticeships, internships and industrial placements, a graduate programme, and postgraduate PhD and po…
A paid, full-time summer internship at FBI headquarters or one of the Bureau's 56 field offices, open to undergraduate, graduate and post-do…
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
A paid immersive summer internship at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, for undergraduate and gra…
Paid year-round internship and cooperative education programs at the Central Intelligence Agency for full-time undergraduate students, plus …
A graduate fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, awarded through the University Nuclear Leadership Program…
A NOAA scholarship supporting two years of undergraduate study for rising juniors at accredited minority serving institutions who major in f…
An eight-month, full-time paid research apprenticeship that pairs aspiring machine learning researchers with the Cohere Labs research team t…
Lime Connect runs a portfolio of scholarships and awards for students with disabilities pursuing STEM, health care, computing and business d…
Cyversity is a non-profit association supporting the academic and professional success of underrepresented cybersecurity students and profes…
A scholarship and academic-support program backed by a $48 million commitment from the Fund II Foundation, created to identify and support 5…
Scholarships for students planning to attend or currently enrolled in an aviation technical program working toward FAA mechanic certificatio…
The scholarship arm of the Associated General Contractors of America awards 150 or more undergraduate and graduate scholarships each year to…
The Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation funds students heading into vacuum coating and thin-film technology — a field that underpins semico…
A three-week paid onsite internship at Fermilab that gives physics undergraduates — plus students in mathematics, computer science and engin…
A free six-week programme from The Coding School introducing undergraduates to quantum computing with an emphasis on quantum cybersecurity, …
A ten-week paid research experience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory run by the Quantum Science Center for graduate students in quantum comp…
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A ten-week paid summer co-op at the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center that pairs undergraduates with faculty from t…
A six-week virtual summer school from the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), the Department of Energy quantum research centre le…
Congressionally authorised US Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants that fund nuclear education at accredited American institutions, covering…
University of Toronto (Fields Institute)
An annual nine-week mathematics research program at the Fields Institute in Toronto that matches carefully selected undergraduates from arou…
Vector Institute
Paid machine learning research internships at Vector Institute in Toronto, open to students in second year or higher at a university or coll…
Funding and support for people already in STEM careers — to advance, transition, or re-skill at any career stage.
A summer research program matching undergraduate women and underrepresented students with faculty mentors at research universities across th…
Grants of up to $8,000 for women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance, change careers, or re-enter the workforce in STE…
A UK professional membership society founded in 1919 that supports women in engineering through its MentorSET cross-sector mentoring scheme,…
Fellowships for women scientists from Science and Technology-Lagging Countries (STLCs) to pursue PhD or early-career research in natural sci…
California Institute of Technology
A 10-week summer research program at Caltech for undergraduate students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM, including women, …
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A highly selective, free six-week residential STEM program at MIT for rising high school seniors from underrepresented backgrounds, includin…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A free two-week residential summer mathematics program at MIT for high-achieving high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, inc…
Carnegie Mellon University
A 12-week summer research program at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute for outstanding undergraduate students from around the world to co…
AnitaB.org
Scholarships awarded by AnitaB.org providing complimentary registration, travel, and hotel support for women and gender-minority students to…
Iota Sigma Pi
A $2,000 scholarship awarded annually by Iota Sigma Pi, the national honor society for women in chemistry, to an undergraduate woman or non-…
Association of Women in the Metal Industries
Scholarships and professional development awards from the Association of Women in the Metal Industries supporting AWMI members pursuing educ…
CRA-WP (Computing Research Association Widening Participation)
Ten-week funded summer research placement pairing undergraduates with faculty mentors at computing departments across the U.S., with a $9,00…
NVIDIA
Up to $60,000 for PhD students doing outstanding research in computing, AI, graphics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Now in its 25…
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Supports PhD students from underrepresented backgrounds — including women — in the life sciences with up to 3 years of stipend support and p…
Rotating (MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, Georgia Tech)
Intensive two-day annual workshop for women graduate students and postdocs pursuing academic careers in EECS. Hosted at rotating top institu…
Ford Foundation / National Academies
Administered by the National Academies, Ford Foundation Fellowships increase faculty diversity by supporting predoctoral, dissertation, and …
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute supports undergraduate research through institutional grants to universities, enabling students to parti…
An undergraduate summer research program in science and biotechnology funded by the Amgen Foundation, placing students in hands-on laborator…
A summer research program from The Leadership Alliance consortium that matches undergraduates with faculty mentors at member research univer…
A 15-month mentored undergraduate research experience in chemistry, biological sciences, and interdisciplinary combinations, funded by the A…
Udall Foundation
A federally funded scholarship recognizing college sophomores and juniors committed to careers related to the environment, Tribal public pol…
Boston University
A six-week residential summer program at Boston University encouraging strongly motivated high school students (ages 14-18) to explore mathe…
Rutgers University
An eight-week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates run by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIM…
SLMath (formerly MSRI)
A six-week summer mathematics research program at SLMath (formerly MSRI) in Berkeley for undergraduates who have completed two years of univ…
The flagship international exchange program of the U.S. Department of State, offering Study/Research and English Teaching Assistant awards i…
The American Nuclear Society awards scholarships to undergraduate students preparing for careers in nuclear science, nuclear engineering, or…
University of Washington
A 10-week NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Washington in Seattle, offering hands-on research in Quantu…
The American Society of Civil Engineers administers a range of national scholarships for undergraduate civil engineering students, including…
Stanford University
An eight-week summer program in which high school juniors and seniors perform hands-on biomedical research with Stanford faculty across disc…
Stony Brook University
A highly selective summer program in which academically talented high school juniors conduct hands-on research in science, math, or engineer…
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
An eight-week summer research program run by SIAM and funded by the Simons Foundation, establishing five sites across the United States each…
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A two-year fellowship for early-career, tenure-track but untenured faculty at U.S. and Canadian institutions in chemistry, computer science,…
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
An award bridging advanced postdoctoral training and the first years of faculty appointment for researchers applying quantitative and physic…
California Institute of Technology
A ten-week summer research program, running since 1979, in which undergraduates conduct a mentored research project with a Caltech or JPL fa…
Princeton University
An NSF MRSEC-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates in materials science at Princeton, where students work on a mentored research pro…
University of California
A two-year University of California system program preparing upper-division STEM undergraduates for doctoral study. Scholars complete two su…
The Searle Scholars Program funds the independent research of exceptional early-career faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry who …
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's Beckman Young Investigator Program funds early-career faculty in the chemical and life sciences wh…
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Traineeship Award introduces students to CF research by funding a mentored research project of ten we…
Administered by ORISE, this program provides students, recent graduates, and university faculty with mentored research appointments at the C…
University of Michigan (Rackham Graduate School)
A funded summer research program at the University of Michigan pairing undergraduates with faculty mentors across STEM and other disciplines…
Purdue University
A paid summer research fellowship at Purdue University placing undergraduates on engineering and applied-science research projects with facu…
Australian Research Council
An Australian Research Council scheme providing three years of salary and project funding to outstanding early-career researchers across sci…
Indiana University Bloomington
An NSF-funded summer mathematics REU at Indiana University Bloomington where undergraduates work on research projects under faculty mentorsh…
Rice University
Eight-week NSF-funded summer REU at Rice University applying psychological science to real-world problems, with faculty-mentored research an…
West Virginia University
Nine-week NSF REU in the WVU Department of Psychology with a stipend plus lodging, food and travel, conducting behavioral-science research w…
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Postdoctoral Fellow award for researchers with under three years of postdoctoral training pursuing basic or translational research in blood …
University of North Texas
A 10-week NSF-funded summer REU offering interdisciplinary research across analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, with on-c…
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
A 10-week NSF REU providing one-on-one faculty-mentored research across genomics, neuroscience, genetics, molecular biology, and related bas…
University of Michigan
A 10-week NSF-funded chemistry REU (running since 1989) offering research and professional development, with a stipend, housing, and travel …
Three-year postdoctoral fellowships in the UK for researchers within four years of their doctorate, open to any subject area including the s…
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Two-year awards of up to $70,000 for young scientists conducting neurobiological research relevant to serious brain and behavior disorders s…
IBM Research
A long-running fellowship recognizing exceptional PhD students in the final years of study working in IBM's focus areas of technology. Nomin…
Melanoma Research Alliance
Supports early-career researchers within five years of their first academic faculty appointment pursuing bold new ideas in melanoma research…
Northwestern University
A nine-week NSF-funded summer research experience through Northwestern's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, placing undergra…
The American Society of Hematology's Scholar Award provides career-development funding to fellows and junior faculty pursuing research caree…
Career Development Award from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network supporting junior faculty establishing independent pancreatic cancer rese…
Career Development Award from the Foundation Fighting Blindness supporting junior clinician-scientists researching inherited retinal degener…
Supports early-career high school mathematics and science teachers with multi-year funding, professional development, and a national network…
A Simons Foundation award helping early-career autism researchers transition to independent faculty positions.
An award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement supporting early-career faculty in chemistry, physics, and astronomy who inte…
A program funding postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM fields to conduct research at leading Israeli universities.
A Research to Prevent Blindness award supporting early-career clinician-scientists conducting vision and eye-disease research.
A national community supporting Black and Latinx computing students with career development, mentorship, and technical resources.
GSA DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics is a biology scholarship or research award providing funding to graduate st…
HDSA Berman-Topper Family HD Career Development Fellowship is a biomedical research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers…
The Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals awards scholarships supporting flight training and aerospace career development for aspiri…
University of Iowa
A summer undergraduate research program at the University of Iowa offering mentored biomedical research and professional development for asp…
The Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award supports early-career investigators conducting pediatric medical research.
The National Psoriasis Foundation funds early-career research grants advancing understanding and treatment of psoriatic disease.
The American Society for Nutrition and ASN Foundation offer scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in nutrition science, plus a…
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
An 8-12 week summer fellowship placing undergraduates in molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience faculty labs, culmin…
Rice University
A summer research fellowship supporting Rice undergraduates in supervised faculty research with a stipend, prioritizing first-generation and…
University of Minnesota
A summer NSF REU in human-centered computing where undergraduates conduct computer science research with faculty mentors on the Minneapolis …
UMass Chan Medical School
A summer research program giving undergraduates hands-on biomedical laboratory experience with graduate school faculty mentors in Worcester,…
Texas A&M University
A 10-week immersive biomedical research experience pairing Texas A&M undergraduates with faculty mentors, seminars, and a Research Day prese…
Purdue University
A 10-week NSF REU placing undergraduates in plant biology and big-data-driven research with professional development and a research symposiu…
The Lustgarten Foundation, the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research, supports early-career investigators through Career Deve…
The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance funds junior faculty for three years to build independent careers in ovarian and gynecologic cancer res…
The India Alliance Early Career Fellowship is a mentored biomedical research fellowship supporting recently qualified researchers to establi…
A mentored award providing multi-year support to researchers within five years of their first faculty appointment pursuing early detection o…
King’s College London
A £3,000-per-year undergraduate scholarship (up to three years) for female, non-binary, and trans students in the Faculty of Natural, Mathem…
A multi-year grant supporting early-career tenure-track faculty conducting laboratory-based fundamental or translational cancer research.
A five-year grant (up to DKK 9 million) from Denmark's Villum Fonden enabling junior faculty in technical and natural sciences to establish …
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty-mentored summer research fellowship (~60 awards) for UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates across disciplines.
University of Michigan Medical School
12-week fellowship in physiology and biomedical research for University of Michigan undergraduates working with MIP faculty.
The CHEST Foundation, philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians, awards annual clinical research grants and young invest…
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation's Career Development Grant supports early-career investigators in musculoskeletal and orth…
India's Department of Science and Technology runs the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship to retain early-career PhD holders and support their transi…
The Cooley's Anemia Foundation invites national and international clinical and basic-science investigators (postdoctoral fellows or junior f…
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
A research-intensive ten-week summer program (June 1 to August 7, 2026) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for undergraduate and…
Yale University
The Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) summer program supports Yale undergraduates from underrepresented or under-resourced b…
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
A competitive summer fellowship (approximately June through early August) at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, UT Health…
Dartmouth College (Geisel School of Medicine / NH-INBRE)
An approximately eight-week summer research fellowship supported by New Hampshire INBRE at Dartmouth for undergraduates seeking skills for r…
Marquette University
A ten-week, full-time summer research training program in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University for undergraduates interest…
Washington State University Vancouver
A ten-week NSF-funded REU (June 8 to August 14, 2026) hosted jointly by WSU Vancouver's School of Engineering and Computer Science and Unive…
The American Library Association's national diversity recruitment scholarship for students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups pu…
The Crustacean Society awards up to six fellowships of up to $1,000 each annually to graduate students conducting research in any area of cr…
The American Bryological and Lichenological Society offers field research grants of up to $1,000 each: the Anderson & Crum Grants for bryolo…
Texas A&M University - Cyclotron Institute
An NSF-funded summer REU at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute in which undergraduates conduct mentored research in nuclear and particle scie…
Nationwide Children's Hospital - Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research
A 10-week mentored summer research program at Nationwide Children's Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research, emphasizing neurops…
A mentored training program of up to two years for physician-investigators with a strong interest in vasculitis, run jointly by the Vasculit…
The Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation's flagship two-year fellowship supports doctoral and postdoctoral researchers conducting studies on myoton…
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation's Bridge to Success Award provides career-development bridge funding to early-career sleep…
Established in 1975, the Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award develops the next generation of urologic researchers by giving early…
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Summer 2026 undergraduate research scholarship pairing students at Alaska INBRE participating institutions with faculty mentors on active bi…
Montana State University
A 10-week summer biomedical research experience for Montana undergraduates working with a faculty mentor, with training, seminars, and a fin…
University of Louisville / University of Kentucky
An in-person biomedical research program (May 26-July 31) funding up to 20 undergraduates to work with faculty mentors at UofL or UK campuse…
Emory University
A 10-week program in which Emory undergraduates conduct full-time independent research under a faculty mentor across the natural and biomedi…
A competitive 10-week paid summer fellowship for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to conduct faculty-mentored lupus research; r…
Paid summer research placements for undergraduates in the natural sciences and engineering at Canadian universities, administered by NSERC w…
A consortium of every engineering faculty in Ontario that coordinates outreach programs, mentorship, and a clearinghouse of scholarships and…
Student and graduate pathways at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, which operates the OPAL research reactor and th…
Around 35 postgraduate fellowships and scholarships awarded annually by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 for advanced study a…
A professional development programme of the American Mathematical Society giving early-career mathematicians collaborative research experien…
The Chemical Institute of Canada's portfolio of student awards spanning its constituent societies. Undergraduate recognitions include the Ca…
A fellowship supporting STEM undergraduates from five Irish universities — Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University Colleg…
Society of Toxicology awards that provide complimentary registration plus travel and lodging for undergraduates presenting toxicology resear…
A summer pathway program run jointly by Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and its medical and nursing schools to build interest in …
Two $1,500 undergraduate scholarships from the Florida Chapter of The Wildlife Society: the Greater Everglades Student Memorial Scholarship …
An embedded research fellowship led by CIHR's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, placing PhD trainees, postdoctoral researche…
University of Massachusetts Amherst
An eight-week paid Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at UMass Amherst in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, data science o…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A paid summer research programme at MIT for undergraduates, designed to promote graduate education as an attainable goal and to prepare stud…
An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by NOIRLab at its site in La Serena, Chile, during the Chilean summer from…
A semester-long program in pure mathematics founded in 2001 and run in association with the Independent University of Moscow, the HSE Facult…
KU Leuven
A competitive scholarship from the Faculty of Science at KU Leuven in Belgium and its Science@Leuven alumni association, for international s…
UNSW Sydney
A flagship PhD scholarship scheme at UNSW Sydney under which candidates are recruited onto advertised research projects aligned to the unive…
PhD scholarships offered by the Forrest Research Foundation with its five partner universities in Western Australia, open to researchers fro…
The University of Texas at Austin
A 30-credit-hour online computer science master’s taught by UT Austin’s tenured faculty through the university’s Computer & Data Science Onl…
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A 32-credit-hour, coursework-only computer science master’s from the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, delivered through Coursera…
University of Michigan
A 38-credit, 100% online, cohort-based data science master’s taught by faculty from the University of Michigan School of Information, comple…
Northeastern University
A 44-semester-hour computer science master’s from Northeastern’s Khoury College built specifically for career changers with no computer scie…
A free three-week virtual training institute run by The Coding School covering quantum computing foundations, quantum cybersecurity and prof…
A competitive USDA NIFA grant programme that funds undergraduate scholarships in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences…
An NSF-supported programme from the Mathematical Association of America that funds mathematical sciences faculty to run summer research expe…
McGill University
A 15-week full-time summer research award for McGill students enrolled in a B.Sc. or B.A. & Sc. program, running May through August with a s…
The highest-growth STEM careers are software engineering, data science, biomedical research, environmental science, and cybersecurity — all fields with strong demand and increasing representation. Computer science and engineering have the most structured entry programs (bootcamps, apprenticeships, internships) for new entrants and career-changers. Biology and biomedical fields already have near-equal gender representation at the PhD level.
Returnship programs are the fastest path back. Path Forward has returnship programs at 100+ companies. Microsoft LEAP is a 16-week paid apprenticeship for people returning to tech. JPMorgan Chase ReEntry is an 8-week paid program. The NIH Re-Entry Supplements fund researchers returning to biomedical science. The Daphne Jackson Fellowship (UK) supports STEM professionals returning after a 2+ year break. There are 36 verified re-entry programs in the WIGSAT directory.
Top STEM industry internship programs: Google STEP Internship (first- and second-year CS students, paid), Brooke Owens Fellowship (aerospace, paid + mentorship), DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (10-week paid research at national labs), and Caltech WAVE Fellows (undergraduate research). Microsoft and Palantir also run structured internship pipelines.
Yes. AAUW Career Development Grants ($2,000–$12,000) support women pursuing education for career advancement. The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship funds women from developing countries in STEM PhDs. L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science provides €15,000–€25,000 for postdoctoral researchers. AWIS Grants support women at every career stage.
A returnship is a structured, paid re-entry program for professionals returning to work after a career break — typically 8–16 weeks, with mentorship and a path to a full-time offer. They're designed to address the resume gap that disproportionately affects professionals who took time for caregiving. Major employers (Microsoft, JPMorgan, Amazon, national labs) run returnship programs with rolling or annual application cycles.