International STEM programs are open to women worldwide, regardless of citizenship or country of study. These include global fellowships from UNESCO, L'Oréal, TWAS, and major tech companies, as well as programs that fund study or research in multiple countries.
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) / FS-ISAC
Computer Science
A scholarship of up to $10,000 for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in cybersecurity or information secu…
View details →AnitaB.org
Computer Science
$15,000 award presented on the mainstage at Grace Hopper Celebration for student women in technology who demonstrate exc…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Mathematics
Deadline: February
Annual biographical essay contest in which students interview a woman or gender-minority mathematician and write about t…
View details →Society for Science / Regeneron
General STEM
Deadline: March
The world's largest pre-college science competition, bringing together 1,700+ student finalists from 60+ countries who h…
View details →Conrad Foundation / Space Center Houston
Engineering
Deadline: February
A global student innovation competition where high school and middle school teams develop solutions to real-world proble…
View details →FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Engineering
Deadline: January
High school students in grades 9–12 design, build, and program industrial-sized robots in six weeks to compete in a them…
View details →USA Computing Olympiad
Computer Science
Deadline: January
A free online competitive programming competition offering contests across four divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinu…
View details →Breakthrough Prize Foundation
General STEM
Deadline: September
An annual global science video competition where high school students create short videos explaining a challenging conce…
View details →ISACA Foundation
Cybersecurity
A global scholarship program from the ISACA Foundation for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide pursuing degree…
View details →Environmental Science
Grants from the Society of Wetland Scientists supporting student research in wetland science and ecology.…
View details →Other
Deadline: February 10
Research grants from the Paleontological Society funding graduate and undergraduate student projects in paleontology.…
View details →Other
Research grants from the Clay Minerals Society funding student projects in clay science, mineralogy, and geology.…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: June 30
Up to US$7,000 over three consecutive years for undergraduate and graduate students committed to signal processing educa…
View details →Other
A government-funded scholarship programme that places international students at universities across Türkiye at associate…
View details →Other
The Korean government's flagship inbound scholarship, run by the National Institute for International Education (NIIED) …
View details →Graduate Women New Zealand (GWNZ)
All STEM
Fellowship for outstanding New Zealand female graduates undertaking doctoral study, providing financial assistance and h…
View details →Major League Hacking
Computer Science
Deadline: Rolling
A 12-week remote program where participants contribute to open source projects, work on production software, and receive…
View details →Software Freedom Conservancy
Computer Science
Deadline: February
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias…
View details →Linux Foundation
Computer Science
Deadline: Rolling
Connects students and open source newcomers with mentors from Linux Foundation-hosted projects including Linux kernel, K…
View details →Other
A postdoctoral fellowship for early-career researchers in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computing …
View details →Other
Deadline: October
The flagship international exchange program of the U.S. Department of State, offering Study/Research and English Teachin…
View details →Biology
The Human Frontier Science Program offers Long-Term Fellowships for PhD holders in the life sciences and Cross-Disciplin…
View details →Biology
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences for up to two years, with internatio…
View details →Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Other
A fellowship enabling internationally recognized researchers of any nationality and discipline to carry out long-term re…
View details →Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Other
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science funds overseas postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at Japanese u…
View details →Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Biomedical
A program from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network supporting early-career scientists worldwide pursuing bold, interdisci…
View details →Other
Postdoctoral fellowships from Hong Kong's Croucher Foundation supporting Hong Kong permanent residents to pursue full-ti…
View details →Other
Deadline: September
EU-funded postdoctoral fellowships supporting PhD-holding researchers of any nationality to advance their careers throug…
View details →ETH Zurich
Other
Deadline: January 15 annually (next cycle Jan 15, 2027)
A postdoctoral fellowship for researchers pursuing unconventional, cross-disciplinary projects outside the scientific ma…
View details →Swiss National Science Foundation
Other
Deadline: Twice yearly (next August 4, 2026)
Enables postdoctoral researchers connected to Switzerland to undertake a research stay abroad to strengthen their academ…
View details →IBM Research
Computer Science
Deadline: Annual (faculty nomination)
A long-running fellowship recognizing exceptional PhD students in the final years of study working in IBM's focus areas …
View details →Melanoma Research Alliance
Biomedical
Deadline: Annual (proposals ~November)
Supports early-career researchers within five years of their first academic faculty appointment pursuing bold new ideas …
View details →Biomedical
Postdoctoral fellowship from the ALS Association supporting early-career scientists conducting ALS research and building…
View details →Environmental Science
Grants supporting early-career nature-conservation projects in developing countries around the world.…
View details →Other
Postdoctoral fellowships enabling researchers of any nationality to work at host institutions in Spain and Portugal.…
View details →Other
Awards from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences recognizing outstanding young scientist…
View details →Other
A program funding postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM fields to conduct research at leading Israeli universities.…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: February (annual)
A Children's Tumor Foundation award supporting early-career researchers studying neurofibromatosis.…
View details →Other
Deadline: May 13, 2026
A National Research Foundation Singapore fellowship funding early-career researchers to lead independent projects at Sin…
View details →Other
Deadline: January 10 / July 15 (annual)
A Leakey Foundation grant funding research into human origins and evolution.…
View details →Environmental Science
Green Talents - International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development is a environmental science research f…
View details →Biology
EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship (EIPOD-LinC) is a biology research fellowship providing funding to early-…
View details →Other
ERC Starting Grant is a other research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Biomedical
FRAXA funds postdoctoral fellows worldwide for up to two years to pursue translational and preclinical Fragile X syndrom…
View details →Other
Sweden's Wallenberg Foundation funds outstanding early-career Swedish scientists for postdoctoral study abroad at Stanfo…
View details →Biomedical
Denmark's Lundbeck Foundation funds early-career postdocs (within 5 years of PhD) over three years for neuroscience rese…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: September 10
A one-year, $50,000 grant from Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, supporting early-career physician-scientists beginni…
View details →Biology
Provides veterinary students a stipend to conduct mentored research advancing the health of dogs, cats, equids, and wild…
View details →Other
The Wenner-Gren Foundations (Stockholm) fund non-Swedish postdoctoral researchers to carry out research training at Swed…
View details →Other
POLONEZ BIS is the Polish National Science Centre's Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND postdoctoral fellowship program bringi…
View details →Other
The Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) in French-speaking Belgium offers the Chargé de recherches postdoct…
View details →Biomedical
A research fellowship from the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA) Inherited Neuropathies Consortium Alliance support…
View details →Biomedical
The Michael Geisman Fellowship from the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation funding postdoctoral research on osteogenesis…
View details →Biomedical
A postdoctoral fellowship from the Dravet Syndrome Foundation supporting early-career researchers studying Dravet syndro…
View details →Biomedical
Research grants from the Amyloidosis Foundation supporting early-career investigators studying amyloidosis.…
View details →Other
A nine-month fellowship at MIT for science, technology, environmental, and medical journalists.…
View details →Biomedical
A postdoctoral fellowship from the FSHD Society supporting research on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.…
View details →Biology
Graduate student research awards from the Society of Systematic Biologists supporting research in systematics and evolut…
View details →Biomedical
FARA funds two-year postdoctoral fellowships (up to $100,000/year) for early-career researchers studying Friedreich's at…
View details →Biomedical
Two-year fellowships of up to $100,000/year supporting early-career scientists (postdocs up to seven years past PhD) pur…
View details →Biomedical
The Hydrocephalus Association runs annual grant cycles funding hydrocephalus research, including Innovator, Accelerator,…
View details →Biomedical
UMDF, the largest non-governmental funder of mitochondrial disease research, offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (up …
View details →Biomedical
Two-year fellowships (up to $40,000/year) for postdoctoral-level scientists pursuing cancer prevention and early-detecti…
View details →Biomedical
Fellowships of up to $75,000/year for one to two years supporting scientists and new researchers in cystinosis research,…
View details →Biomedical
Endocrine Society program providing a $2,500 honorarium plus a travel grant for first- to third-year medical and graduat…
View details →Data Science
An eight-month, full-time paid research apprenticeship that pairs aspiring machine learning researchers with the Cohere …
View details →Computer Science
An independent 12-week research fellowship that pairs scholars with mentors across seven tracks: empirical research, the…
View details →Computer Science
A remote fellowship from BASE, an AI safety research lab building pathways for Black researchers and professionals into …
View details →Environmental Science
A six-month hybrid fellowship from The New York Climate Exchange for early-stage innovators — researchers, scientists, e…
View details →Biology
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Hands-on laboratory training in biosecurity for early- and mid-career scientists at the International Centre for Genetic…
View details →Apple
Computer Science
An immersive one-week program at Apple headquarters for app-driven organizations founded or led by women, offering acces…
View details →Other
A continually updated directory of paid employer return-to-work programs (returnships) worldwide, many in STEM and techn…
View details →Mathematics Foundation of America
Mathematics
Deadline: February
A five-week academic summer program for mathematically talented middle and high school students (ages 13-18) from around…
View details →Amazon
Computer Science
A return-to-work program for women who have taken a career break of 12 months or more and are re-entering the workforce,…
View details →Cisco
Computer Science
Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career br…
View details →Amazon Web Services
Cybersecurity
AWS re/Start is a cybersecurity training and career program.…
View details →Computer Science
Google Career Certificates is a computer science training and career program.…
View details →Mathematics
Free online team mathematics competition for middle and high school students, held annually since 2003 with worldwide pa…
View details →Computer Science
A large computer science competition offering free online informatics and computational-thinking tasks for students aged…
View details →Computer Science
The premier international computer science and algorithmic programming competition for secondary school students, held a…
View details →Mathematics
The world's most prestigious mathematics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1959 with nation…
View details →Physics
The leading international physics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1967 with national team…
View details →Chemistry
International chemistry competition for secondary school students from 90+ countries, featuring theoretical and laborato…
View details →Biology
The premier worldwide high school biology competition, drawing national olympiad winners from more than 70 countries and…
View details →Other
Annual international competition where secondary students solve language and computational-linguistics puzzles through l…
View details →Mathematics
International mathematics olympiad exclusively for high-school female students, started in 2012 and now including 60+ co…
View details →Engineering
International robotics initiative with leagues in Soccer, Rescue, @Home and Industrial, drawing thousands of participant…
View details →Cybersecurity
A large student-run cybersecurity event hosted by NYU, with CTF, embedded security, AI hardware and cyber policy challen…
View details →Other
The EU's flagship science competition showcasing top student research projects, with young scientists aged 14-20 from ne…
View details →Computer Science
A global network of free, volunteer-led coding clubs for young people aged 7-17, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…
View details →Engineering
International STEAM robotics competition (originated in China) with age-based divisions such as MakeX Explorer for ages …
View details →Biology
Deadline: March 4
A worldwide genetics essay competition run by the American Society of Human Genetics for students in grades 9 through 12…
View details →Mathematics
An intensive three-week online summer mathematics programme for middle and high school students aged 12 to 18 from aroun…
View details →Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Engineering
A summer programme at the Technion in Haifa for international high school students, combining science and technology cou…
View details →Data Science
A competitive AI and data science platform where participants join real-world challenges to build skills and a public po…
View details →Computer Science
A free Advent calendar of small programming puzzles, created and run annually by Eric Wastl, that can be solved in any p…
View details →Computer Science
A month-long open-source celebration held every October, launched by DigitalOcean in 2014 as a challenge to open four pu…
View details →Other
The New York Academy of Sciences' signature high school programme, which connects students aged 13 to 17 with an online …
View details →Engineering
A six-month paid return-to-work contract for mid-career professionals re-entering the workforce after an extended break …
View details →Other
A K-12 invention education programme operated by The Henry Ford, teaching students problem identification, problem solvi…
View details →Computer Science
A fully funded international STEM exchange sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural …
View details →Engineering
A paid internship and mentorship program for undergraduate women and gender-minority students passionate about aerospace…
View details →Computer Science
A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited US or C…
View details →Carnegie Mellon University
Engineering
A 12-week summer research program at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute for outstanding undergraduate students from ar…
View details →Intel
Engineering
A scholarship of €3,000 for women enrolled in undergraduate engineering or computer science programs at Irish universiti…
View details →Computer Science
A €7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited universities in…
View details →Computer Science
Deadline: April
A global program where Google awards stipends to contributors to spend a summer working on open source software projects…
View details →Amazon
Computer Science
Deadline: September
Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and o…
View details →Apple
Engineering
Deadline: December
Apple offers paid internships across hardware engineering, software engineering, machine learning, and design for underg…
View details →Jane Street
Mathematics
Deadline: November
Highly competitive paid internships in software engineering, trading, research, and quantitative finance, providing deep…
View details →Citadel / Correlation One
Data Science
Deadline: Rolling
A series of data science competitions hosted by Citadel and Correlation One, open to university students globally, where…
View details →ICPC Foundation
Computer Science
Deadline: October
The world's largest and most prestigious collegiate programming contest, where teams of three undergraduates compete in …
View details →Meta
Computer Science
Deadline: September
An annual international online programming competition hosted by Meta since 2011, where participants solve algorithmic p…
View details →NASA
Aerospace
Deadline: October
NASA's annual two-day international hackathon challenging participants of all skill levels to solve real-world problems …
View details →Biology
An undergraduate summer research program in science and biotechnology funded by the Amgen Foundation, placing students i…
View details →Engineering
A summer research internship placing undergraduates from North American, British, and Irish universities with research g…
View details →Vertical Flight Society
Aerospace
Merit-based scholarships of $4,000 to $6,000 awarded annually by the Vertical Flight Foundation, the philanthropic arm o…
View details →Physics
Scholarships from the Optica Foundation (formerly OSA) supporting undergraduate and master's students studying optics, p…
View details →Engineering
A global non-profit that arranges paid, on-site STEM (science, engineering, and technology) internships abroad for unive…
View details →IEEE Computer Society
Computer Science
Deadline: October
An academic excellence award co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computing honor societ…
View details →Engineering
Supported by the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Foundation, this merit-based scholarship goes to an incoming under…
View details →Engineering
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers awards undergraduate scholarships (including the Mandell and the Ro…
View details →Other
Since 1922, Sigma Xi's GIAR program has funded student-designed research projects across all STEM disciplines for both u…
View details →Engineering
The Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation offers numerous named scholarships to full-time undergraduate students majo…
View details →Engineering
The International Society of Automation's Educational Foundation awards scholarships to ISA student members enrolled in …
View details →BIOS, Arizona State University
Environmental Science
An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in ocean and marine sciences at the Bermuda Institute of O…
View details →Mathematics
A paid trading internship at the market-making firm Optiver, offering hands-on training in options theory and live-marke…
View details →National Conservation Foundation
Environmental Science
Deadline: International competition in July
North America's largest high school environmental competition; teams are tested in aquatic ecology, forestry, soils and …
View details →Engineering
Deadline: Annual season; 2026 World Championship June 25-27, 2026 (Newfoundland, Canada)
An international underwater robotics competition in which K-12, community college, and university students design, build…
View details →Biology
iGEM is an international synthetic-biology competition in which student teams design and build engineered biological sys…
View details →Engineering
A global student engineering competition to design and build ultra-energy-efficient vehicles.…
View details →Computer Science
A global student technology competition run by Microsoft in which teams build apps and startups.…
View details →Aerospace
An annual student competition to design, build, and launch a soda-can-sized satellite payload.…
View details →Aerospace
An international competition for university teams to build and operate Mars rover prototypes, organized by the Mars Soci…
View details →Computer Science
A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and i…
View details →Other
Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition is a other STEM competition open to students.…
View details →Cybersecurity
The Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition tasks university teams with performing a realistic penetration tes…
View details →University of Florida
Chemistry
Deadline: January 15
UF-administered international REU placing U.S. undergraduates at French universities for chemistry and biochemistry rese…
View details →Mathematics
Deadline: Annual - contest weekend late January / early February
MCM/ICM is an international mathematical modeling contest run by COMAP for teams of up to three high school or undergrad…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: Annual collegiate design series (multiple events per season)
Baja SAE is a collegiate design series run by SAE International in which university teams design and build a single-seat…
View details →Aerospace
Deadline: Annual - proposals due each autumn, fly-off each April
AIAA Design/Build/Fly is an annual aerospace engineering competition where university student teams design, fabricate an…
View details →Chemistry
Undergraduate scholarships from the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society for students in chemistry, physics,…
View details →Aerospace
The world's largest collegiate rocket engineering competition, run by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, wher…
View details →Physics
An annual international astronomy and astrophysics competition for secondary school students, with theoretical, data-ana…
View details →Physics
A global team-based competition ('Physics World Cup') where high school teams research ~17 open-ended physics problems a…
View details →Environmental Science
An annual international competition organized under the International Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO) for stude…
View details →Engineering
An international robotics competition organized by DJI in which university student teams design and build combat robots …
View details →Cybersecurity
A scholarship from the ISACA Foundation supporting students worldwide pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in IT…
View details →Physics
SPIE's main scholarship programme for students studying optics, photonics, or a related discipline, open to SPIE Student…
View details →Other
An annual awards and scholarships programme from Women in GIS covering undergraduate scholarships, graduate scholarships…
View details →Weizmann Institute of Science
Other
An eight-week summer research school at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for outstanding undergraduate and ma…
View details →Other
Deadline: 31 January
A two-month research fellowship offered jointly by the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bengaluru, the Indian National Scie…
View details →University of Tokyo
Other
An intensive summer research internship run by the School of Science at the University of Tokyo for undergraduates who i…
View details →Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Other
A laboratory research internship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, open to students in the fi…
View details →EPFL
Computer Science
A three-month paid summer research fellowship at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, open to bachelor's and master's students…
View details →Engineering
Siemens' student and early career portfolio covers internships and development programs across engineering, computer sci…
View details →Computer Science
Futureforce is Salesforce's university programme. The flagship summer internship runs 8-12 weeks and hires students worl…
View details →Biomedical
AstraZeneca's early talent portfolio includes internships, industrial placements and graduate programmes across the glob…
View details →Chemistry
BASF offers international internships of roughly three to six months for students enrolled at a university for the whole…
View details →Computer Science
Stripe's emerging talent programme covers internships, apprenticeships and early career roles for undergraduate and grad…
View details →Engineering
Cummins' student careers hub lists internships, co-ops and graduate development opportunities across the power and propu…
View details →Biomedical
GSK's early talent portfolio spans apprenticeships, internships and industrial placements, a graduate programme, and pos…
View details →Other
One of the world's largest scholarship initiatives, providing full funding for undergraduate and graduate study to talen…
View details →Physics
An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program run by NOIRLab at its site in La Serena, Chile, during the…
View details →Mathematics
A study-abroad program in Budapest, Hungary, in which undergraduates in mathematics and computer science take advanced c…
View details →Mathematics
A semester-long program in pure mathematics founded in 2001 and run in association with the Independent University of Mo…
View details →Computer Science
A part-time, fully remote research fellowship that pairs aspiring AI safety and policy researchers with working professi…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: 1 January (nominations open 1 May)
An annual award from the IEEE Systems Council recognising undergraduates working toward a first professional degree in a…
View details →Engineering
The Society of Petroleum Engineers funds a slate of named awards for undergraduate and graduate student members in energ…
View details →Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Engineering
Deadline: February 21
A month-long research placement at the Technion for outstanding undergraduates from anywhere in the world, working on a …
View details →Biomedical
An annual biomolecular design competition for undergraduate teams, who build devices from the molecules of life. Previou…
View details →Computer Science
Spotify's 10-week summer internship programme, spanning business, product and technical teams across the company's globa…
View details →Engineering
An international student competition, run by RoboNation and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and NIWC Pacific, …
View details →Engineering
An international student competition run by RoboNation in which teams design and build an autonomous surface vehicle and…
View details →Aerospace
Deadline: October 1
A collegiate design series run by SAE International in which student teams conceive, design, fabricate and test a radio-…
View details →Engineering
A pair of collegiate solar car events organised by the Innovators Educational Foundation. The Formula Sun Grand Prix is …
View details →Dartmouth College
Engineering
An interdisciplinary design and engineering competition in which undergraduate and graduate university teams design and …
View details →Biology
Field-based undergraduate study programmes run by the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica and South Africa, …
View details →Palantir
Computer Science
A $7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical fie…
View details →International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Physics
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, eng…
View details →University of Cambridge
Other
A full-cost postgraduate scholarship for outstanding international students to pursue a one-year postgraduate degree or …
View details →Stanford University
Other
A fully funded, multidisciplinary graduate leadership program at Stanford University open to applicants worldwide pursui…
View details →Other
A STEM graduate fellowship sponsored by the governments of Australia, India, Japan and the United States (open to citize…
View details →ACM SIGHPC
Data Science
Deadline: May
A fellowship created by ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing to increase the diversity of students…
View details →Other
The Rhodes Scholarship, administered by the Rhodes Trust, funds postgraduate study at the University of Oxford across al…
View details →Engineering
Combustion Institute Bernard Lewis Fellowship is a engineering scholarship or research award providing funding to gradua…
View details →Biology
Deadline: December 15
Herpetologists' League E.E. Williams Research Grant is a biology scholarship or research award providing funding to grad…
View details →Other
Meteoritical Society Research Grant is a other scholarship or research award providing funding to graduate students in t…
View details →Environmental Science
SCB awards Graduate Student Research Awards each year to graduate-student members demonstrating financial need, supporti…
View details →Other
The Explorers Club Pathfinder Grant (formerly the Exploration Fund Grant) awards $2,500 to $5,000 to graduate and post-g…
View details →Biology
Student research grants in herpetology from the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR).…
View details →ETH Zurich
Engineering
A merit scholarship for incoming masters students at ETH Zurich, covering study and living costs plus a tuition waiver f…
View details →Other
European Union scholarships covering tuition, travel, and living costs for students admitted to an Erasmus Mundus Joint …
View details →Other
Scholarships from the Swiss Confederation for international graduate researchers to pursue doctoral or postdoctoral rese…
View details →Other
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research funds a ladder of awards from the National Science Scholarship (…
View details →Other
The Japanese government scholarship for international students, covering tuition, a monthly living allowance, and travel…
View details →Other
A fully funded master's and doctoral scholarship programme managed by Taighde Eireann - Research Ireland and funded by I…
View details →Computer Science
A paid, in-person research placement that embeds enrolled Bachelor's, Master's and PhD students onto active Google DeepM…
View details →Other
Deadline: August 3
Awards from the Materials Research Society recognising graduate students for excellence in materials research, applied f…
View details →Tsinghua University
Other
A fully funded one-year master's programme at Tsinghua University in Beijing leading to a Master of Global Affairs, open…
View details →Mathematics
CIMPA, the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics, has spent nearly 50 years widening access to mathemati…
View details →Other
A nationally competitive scholarship administered by the US-Ireland Alliance that funds one year of postgraduate study a…
View details →Meta
Computer Science
A two-year fellowship for exceptional PhD students conducting research in areas relevant to Meta's research agenda, incl…
View details →Microsoft Research
Computer Science
Deadline: November
Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in A…
View details →Computer Science
Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two …
View details →Computer Science
An annual award from the Association for Computing Machinery recognizing the best doctoral dissertations in computer sci…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: February 1, June 1, October 1 (annual)
PhD fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds supporting outstanding junior scientists pursuing basic research in b…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: September 1
INCOSE Foundation Stevens Doctoral Award is a engineering scholarship or research award providing funding to phd student…
View details →Chemistry
Deadline: November 15
IAGC PhD Student Research Grants is a chemistry scholarship or research award providing funding to phd students in the f…
View details →Other
TWAS PhD Fellowship Programmes is a other research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Other
Structured English-language doctoral programs run jointly by Max Planck Institutes and partner German universities, span…
View details →Other
Germany's largest research organisation funds doctoral researchers and early-career scientists across its 18 national re…
View details →EPFL
Engineering
Salaried doctoral positions across EPFL's doctoral schools in computer and communication sciences, electrical engineerin…
View details →Nanyang Technological University
Engineering
Doctoral scholarships at Nanyang Technological University covering tuition and a monthly stipend, including the NTU Rese…
View details →Academia Sinica
Other
An all-English PhD program run by Academia Sinica jointly with leading national research universities in Taiwan, offerin…
View details →Other
A fellowship scheme from Hong Kong's Research Grants Council for new full-time PhD students at eight participating unive…
View details →Physics
Deadline: April 20 and October 20 annually
A research studentship at the European Southern Observatory for students already enrolled in a PhD programme in astronom…
View details →Biology
Deadline: Next application round opens September 2026
Established in 1983, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s doctoral programme trains PhD students across all EMBL …
View details →Major international programs include the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Fellowships, TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) fellowships, UNESCO's MAB Young Scientists Award, and fellowships from Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies that are open globally.
Yes — programs listed as "International" accept applications from women in most countries. Some have specific regional priorities (e.g., programs focused on developing nations). Always check the eligibility section on the official program page for citizenship or residency requirements.
Many are — L'Oréal-UNESCO fellowships provide €15,000–20,000 for postdoctoral research. TWAS fellowships cover full research costs at host institutions. Tech company programs (Google PhD Fellowships, Microsoft Research) cover tuition and living stipends. Funding amounts vary by program and region.
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