NCAT Extraordinary Opportunities

The National Scholarships and Fellowships Coordinator helps North Carolina A&T State University's undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni learn of and apply for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships, regardless of Honors College membership or current scholarship status. These extraordinary opportunities are external to North Carolina A&T and they span a wide range of experiences. Many of these extraordinary opportunities (EOs) are fully funded and are connected to undergraduate as well as graduate degree programs and internships, international programs and activities, language programs, and independent projects and research.

Several nationally competitive and prestigious EOs have a two-part application process. Before students and alumni can apply in the national competition, they must first apply in the campus competition to gain nomination, or endorsement. Applicants should therefore put their best foot forward for the campus competition. Campus application deadlines for this endorsement may be anywhere from four weeks to four or more months before the national deadline. Applicants should also allot at least four weeks before the national deadlines for non-endorsed EOs.

Scroll down to see a list of highlighted EOs below and click on the hyperlinked names to learn more.  Be sure to reach out to NCAT EO for coaching or questions.

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Undergraduate EOs

International/Language

Public Service/Leadership

STEM

Underrepresented Groups

Postgraduate EOs

Career Pathways/Specific Fields

International/Language

American-Scandinavian Foundation Scholarship
Boren Fellowship
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
Cultural Vistas (including CBYX)
DAAD Scholarships
Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant
Humanity in Action (HiA) Fellowship
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program
Luce Scholars Program
Princeton in Africa
Princeton in Asia
Schwarzman Scholars program

U.K. Degrees (various disciplines)

Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities
Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant (also outside the U.K.)
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Marshall Scholarships
Mitchell Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarships

Public Service/Leadership Degrees

Think Tanks/Independent Projects

The Detroit Fellowship (HiA)
Echoing Green Fellowship
Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant
Gaither Junior Fellows Program
Humanity in Action (HiA) Fellowship
The US Mapping Democracy Fellowship (HiA)
Rotary Peace Fellowships
Scoville Peace Fellowship

STEM

AAUW American Fellowship (for women scholars)
Dept. of Energy Computational Science Fellowship
Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs for Minorities
Foreign Affairs Information Technology (FAIT) Fellowship
Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant 
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Hertz Foundation Fellowship
Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program
Marshall Scholarships
Mitchell Scholarship
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
Rhodes Scholarships
Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship
Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Underrepresented Groups