Program Overview
The Teaching Fellows Program is a scholarship program that provides a four year $6,500 per year scholarship to 500 exceptional North Carolina high school seniors. Students must go through a multi dimensional interview process to earn the honor of being a Teaching Fellow. Recipients all must be legal residents of North Carolina and citizens of the United States. Upon acceptance of the scholarship, the student agrees to teach for four years following graduation from college in one of North Carolina’s public schools or United States Government schools in North Carolina.
At North Carolina State University Teaching Fellows are provided with an outstanding program that will allow them to develop into quality teachers for the state of North Carolina. NC State is home to almost 30,000 students. As the largest university in the state, it offers an abundance of opportunities for its whole population. At NC State, the Teaching Fellows program complements a rigorous academic program with excellent opportunities for campus leadership. Social and cultural lives are just what you would expect in a large metropolitan area - plentiful and varied.
Teaching Fellows are expected to broaden their knowledge of the world through exposure to everything from folk culture to fine art.
