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Fellowships
Applications for SIG Fellowships have closed. We are currently accepting applications for SIG Stipends. Click here for more info about SIG Stipends.
SIG offers dozens of fully-funded public service internships every summer in a range of organizations around the world. Undergraduates from all majors and years are encouraged to apply as the fellowships represent public service through a variety of disciplines. (NOTE: only seniors planning to return to campus the next fall, for instance co-terms, are eligible).
You can find the list of summer 2016 fellowships in the drop down menu under the Fellowships tab. You can also find a map of fellowship locations here. Applications and recommendations for summer 2016 fellowships are due on February 9th, 2016 at 11:59pm PST.
For more information about the application itself, click here. Please refer to the Program Requirements and Stipendssections of the Haas Center’s Undergraduate Fellowships Program FAQs page for additional program requirements and policies.
For fellowships, applications will be reviewed and email notices of whether or not you are a finalist in the week following the submission deadline of February 9. Interviews will be held from mid-February through early March, with final offers and decisions by mid-March at the latest.
Yes, freshmen are encouraged to apply to SIG fellowships and stipends! Each year, many freshmen are selected for finalist interviews, and typically a few freshman may be chosen as fellows. In the case of fellowships, having a Stanford faculty recommender and experience in your application is preferable; however, if after having spent only one quarter at Stanford, freshman think a high school supervisor or teacher would be able to speak much better on their behalf, or some experience from high school is very relevant to the fellowship, then please include them. The following SIG fellowships are especially friendly to underclassmen:
SIG Stipends funds students who secure an unpaid public policy internship on their own. SIG Fellowships are pre-arranged fully-funded public policy internships with organizations who have agreed to partner with SIG. For more information about the Stipends program, click here. You may apply for both Stipends and Fellowships, but the applications are separate.
Yes! Students who are abroad can still apply. If selected as a finalist, such applicants will Skype into their interviews, and depending on the time zone difference, may have to be flexible with timing.
Yes! However, students who will be abroad in the Spring will be required to complete assignments to make up for the on-campus orientation sessions they will miss.
Unfortunately SIG only accepts applications from students who will be enrolled as undergraduates for the next academic year, so graduating seniors cannot apply. The one exception to this is seniors who will be co-terming all of next year, who are allowed to apply.
No. Undergraduates from all majors (and undeclared) are encouraged to apply as the fellowships and stipends represent public service through a variety of disciplines.
Yes; keep in mind that SIG Stipends funds students who secure an unpaid public policy internship on their own, while SIG Fellowships are pre-arranged fully-funded public policy internships with organizations who have agreed to partner with SIG. For more information about the Stipends program, click here. Please note that the Stipends and Fellowships applications are separate.
Fellowships are located all over the world. We host International Fellowships, National Fellowships (located in Washington DC or around the country) and State Fellowships (located in Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and around California). Please click here to see a map of all of our 2015-2016 fellowships.
The majority of our Fellowships do not require US citizenship. However, due to the high-security nature of some of our fellowships, some partner organizations do require a US citizen to apply for or receive that Fellowship. These are listed below. Due to security clearance constraints, applicants to these fellowships must be United States citizens:
Please use the form below or email SIG’s Vice-Chair of Fellowships, Emma Leeds Armstrong, at emmala@stanford.edu if you have any questions. If you have a question about a specific fellowship, you can also contact the SIG member or the 2014-2015 SIG fellow whose contact information is located on each individual fellowship page.