Overview
AAUW Career Development Grants provide up to $8,000 for eligible women pursuing short-term accredited certificate or training programs that support entry, transition or advancement in fields where women are underrepresented.
Complete grant details
The Winter/Spring 2027 round supports accredited or licensed non-degree programs beginning between 1 January and 30 June 2027. Eligible uses include tuition, fees, required course materials, transportation assistance and dependent care. Degree programs, certificates embedded in degree programs and licensing-exam expenses are not eligible.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants must identify as women; be U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent residents from the United States or its listed territories; hold at least an associate's degree; and have applied or been accepted to an accredited certificate or training program in an underrepresented field, or meet AAUW's executive/management-training employment condition. The proposed program must begin between 1 January and 30 June 2027.
Tips for this grant
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Reverified against AAUW's official Career Development Grants page. It confirms an award ceiling of $8,000, eligibility and program-start rules, eligible expenses and a Winter/Spring 2027 close of 30 September 2026 at 5 p.m. EST. Because the page's EST wording falls during U.S. daylight-saving season, the exact UTC conversion is not inferred; deadline_date preserves the authoritative calendar close and deadline_text preserves AAUW's clock wording.
Job and Scholarship is the discovery and verification layer. Confirm eligibility, dates, salary/funding and application instructions on the original source before submitting anything.
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