In addition to tuition, M.P.P. students are eligible for a stipend to assist with housing, transportation, health fees, and other living costs. Yale Jackson is committed to making the program accessible to students from any background.

Each year, Yale Jackson awards a number of fellowships to students at the time of admission. Some fellowships give priority to particular issue areas (e.g., global health, climate change) or regions of the world (e.g., Africa, East Asia). Fellowship consideration does not affect admissions decisions, and most do not require any additional application.

Fellowships that require additional materials include:

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS):

Available to Yale Jackson graduate students whose academic work includes foreign language study and whose career plans include teaching, public service, or business related to Africa, Europe, or the Middle East. The fellowships provide $18,000 toward tuition funding and a $15,000 stipend. Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. are eligible. FLAS awards are funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Higher Education Act, Title VI.

They are administered through the Council on African Studies, European Studies Council, and Council on Middle East Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Applications are available here.

Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program for Returning Peace Corps Volunteers

Awarded to Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) who apply as a Coverdell Fellow. To be considered, interested candidates upload a short RPCV Fellowship Statement within the online application, indicating how the fellowship fits into their academic and professional plans, and how they plan to fulfill the Coverdell internship requirement.

During their graduate studies, Coverdell Fellows complete a degree-related internship in an underserved American community, allowing them to bring home and expand upon the skills they learned as Peace Corps volunteers. At Jackson, Coverdell Fellows receive full tuition (and are eligible to receive an additional stipend for living expenses). Coverdell Fellows are usually named after intent to matriculate decisions are made.

For more information on the Coverdell Fellows Program, visit the Peace Corps website.

Meet Jackson’s current Coverdell Fellows

Teaching & Research

Yale has an extraordinary number of paid teaching and research opportunities for students. International students are eligible for any of these positions. More information can be found on the Teaching and Research positions page.

Summer Funding

Yale Jackson provides up to $6,000 in summer funding to first-year students for approved unfunded or underfunded summer projects. This funding allows students the flexibility to think creatively about how to spend their summer months. Students are also eligible to apply for a number fellowships administered through other units at Yale. For a complete list of all Yale-based sources of summer funding, see the Student Grants and Fellowship Database at Yale University.

Joint degree students are eligible for the same fellowships as other M.P.P. students (listed above) while enrolled in the Jackson School of Global Affairs (3 semesters). Funding sources for the semesters enrolled at the other professional school should be discussed with the appropriate advisors and administrators in that professional school.

Students in the five-year program will receive their existing financial aid package from Yale College in their senior year (the first year of the joint program). Funding for the second year of the M.P.P. program will be awarded to students at the time of admission.

M.P.P. students who do not receive funding from the Jackson School or Yale University are often recipients of external fellowships from a wide array of sources including the Yellow Ribbon Program, Fulbright, home governments and many others.

Applicants are encouraged to search for external funding through the large number of databases available on the Internet such as FastWeb or Peterson’s. The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) also maintains a comprehensive list of fellowships and scholarships.

Loans are available by application through the Jackson School Office of Financial Aid for both U.S. and international students (jacksonfinancialaid@yale.edu).