MPA & MPP Fellowships

The Urban Leaders Fellowship is a paid summer fellowship for professionals who come from various backgrounds, professions, ideologies, and experiences with a sincere commitment to transform communities through people and partnerships.

• Deadline: February 20, 2026
• Citizenship: US citizens
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The Carr-Ryan Center invites individuals dedicated to advancing human rights through scholarship or practice to apply for a year-long fellowship. Whether you’re a post-doc, scholar, academic on sabbatical, human rights defender, senior leader in international organizations, or head of a human rights organization, we want you to be part of a cohort where fellows can form valuable intellectual partnerships to support their work. Ideal candidates actively invest time and energy in building a community with fellow cohort members.

• Deadline: February 22, 2026
• Citizenship: Unrestricted
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State Policy Fellows tackle domestic policy challenges by analyzing state budgets and tax policy choices, understanding their impact on low-income residents, and proposing positive alternatives.  Their budget and tax work often intersects with other policies areas including health care, anti-poverty policy, education, immigration, state-tribal policy, and criminal legal system reform.

• Deadline: February 28, 2026
• Citizenship: “candidates must be eligible to work full time in the United States for the two-year duration of the program”
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science, Technology and Policy (STP) Program serves as a next step in the educational and professional development of scientists and engineers by providing opportunities to participate in policy-related projects at DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) in Washington, D.C.  Participants will become part of a group of highly-trained scientists and engineers with the education, background, and experience to be part of the workforce that supports the DOE's mission in the future.  You will have opportunities to enhance your quantitative and qualitative reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills. You will receive training, mentoring, and additional support to effectively accomplish internship goals. Participants will receive a stipend to be determined by NE, and are typically based on the participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location.

• Deadline: Rolling
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizens
• Website: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/DOE-STP-NE-2022-6000

UA Tech Launch Arizona and the Graduate College collaborate to provide U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident degree-seeking graduate students (main campus only) to gain practical startup company and technology commercialization experience. The selected Fellow will receive an hourly wage from Tech Launch and $10,000 Graduate Tuition Scholarship from the UA Graduate College that will apply to the fall and/or spring base graduate semester tuition during the Fellow’s tenure as a Student Entrepreneurial Fellow. Please note if the Fellow is concurrently appointed as a graduate assistant/associate (GA) at .50 FTE or higher, the tuition award will not apply due to the full tuition coverage provided as a benefit of the GA appointment. Applicants must be degree-seeking graduate student admitted to a main campus Master’s or doctoral program at the University of Arizona.

•    Deadline: Open until filled. 
•    Citizenship: U.S. citizens or permanent residents 
•    Website: https://grad.arizona.edu/funding/opportunities/tech-launch-az-student-entrepreneurial-fellow
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