Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
A two-year graduate fellowship for immigrants and the children of immigrants pursuing full-time degree-granting graduate or professional study in the United States. Open to all fields, so an MSW, DSW, or social welfare Ph.D. student qualifies, and fellows join a lifelong community with an annual fall conference.
- Indicative award
- up to $25k stipend (stipend)The eligibility page states a maximum stipend of $25,000 per year plus 50% of tuition and fees up to $10,000 per semester. No single total-award figure is published on this page, so amountMin is left null.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-29 — 76 days awayAnnual. The 2027 fellowship application deadline is October 29, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- The 'New American' gate: the applicant is an immigrant or the child of immigrants — naturalized citizen, green card holder, refugee or asylee, or someone who graduated from both a U.S. high school and a U.S. college; birth parents must have been born abroad as non-citizens and ineligible for U.S. citizenship at birth. Applicants must be 30 or younger as of the deadline, and must be enrolled full-time in a U.S. degree-granting graduate or professional programme in 2027-2028 without having started the third year of that programme by the deadline. The individual applies directly; no institutional
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- graduate study · immigrant scholars · professional degree support
- Apply at
- https://pdsoros.org/eligibility/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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