Study Abroad Scholarships
If you start planning in advance, it can be relatively easy to get a study abroad scholarship. Albeit, it probably won’t cover everything, but 500 bucks is 500 bucks. Start by talking to your university’s study abroad / learning abroad offices and to your department. There may be specific scholarships through your university or department that you would be eligible for. Ask what kind of scholarships are available for study abroad or if there are scholarships that aren’t specific to studying abroad but would cover it.
Next, check with the program you are studying with. For instance, I know that AIFS, CIEE, and SIT all have scholarships available.
Finally, there are plenty of other opportunities to get study abroad scholarships, including federally and privately funded scholarships
Check out:
University of Minnesota’s scholarship search engine.
And the International Institute of Education’s (IIE) search engine.
Two excellent federal scholarships are the Gilman and the National Security Education Program (NSEP) scholarships:
The NSEP is divided up into three scholarships: “The National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships for Study Abroad offers opportunities for U.S. students to study in world regions critical to U.S. interests but generally underrepresented in study abroad.
The National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships encourage U.S. graduate students to add an important language component to their educations.
The National Flagship Language Program offers advanced language training in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, or Russian.”
