Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Are you eligible?

1. You must be a citizen of the United States.
2. You must be an undergraduate student in good standing at an institution of higher education located in the United States.
3. You must be receiving federal Pell Grant funding during the academic term of his/her application.
4. You must be applying to or been accepted for a program of study abroad eligible for undergraduate credit by the student's home institution.
5. You must not be applying to study in a country that is currently under a Travel Warning issued by the United States Department of State or Cuba.
6. You must be applying to an academic year, semester, quarter, or short-term program abroad. Short-term programs must be at least four weeks in length.
7. You must be applying to single-country program. Multi-country programs are not eligible.

The Application Deadline for Spring 2009 is October 7th, 2008.
The Application Deadline for Fall 2009 is April 7th, 2009.

For more information, eligibility guidelines or to apply go to the Gilman Scholarship website.

Freeman Asia Awards for Study in Asia

The primary goal of the Freeman-ASIA Award Program is to increase the number of American undergraduates who study in East and Southeast Asia, by providing students with the information and financial assistance they will need. Awardees will be expected to share their experiences with their home campus to encourage study abroad by others, and to spread understanding of Asia in their home communities

Freeman scholarships are available for study in the following countries or regions

    Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia,
    Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. (Multi-country programs are only eligible
     if the applicant will spend at least 8 weeks in one of the countries and will have intensive
     language study during that period.)

The application deadline for Spring 2009 is October 15th, 2008.

For more information and application materials go directly to the Freeman Asia website.

National Security Exchange Program ~ David L. Boren
  Undergraduate Scholarships

NSEP was designed to provide U.S. undergraduates with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experience in countries and areas of the world critical to the future security of our nation. As a student of another culture and language, you will begin to acquire the international competence you need to communicate effectively across borders, understand other perspectives and analyze increasingly fluid economic and political realities. NSEP is especially designed to support students who will make a commitment to federal service.

The program includes the following components:

A focus on geographic areas, languages and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security.  Serious study in a foreign country that complements your academic and career goals.  Preference is given to study in geographical areas deemed critical to national security.  Appropriate and integrated study of a foreign language is required for all study abroad proposals.  Study must be for a minimum of one academic term and all recipients of NSEP awards incur a requirement to enter into an agreement, in order of priority, to work for an agency of the federal government with national security responsibilities or to work in the field of higher education in the area of study for which the scholarship was awarded.

The 2009-10 deadline is early February of 2009. (Stay tuned for more information on USM's dealine.) For eligibility guidelines and more information visit the NSEP website.

David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships

Similar to the NSEP program mentioned above the David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an international dimension to their education. Boren Fellowships support students pursuing the study of languages, cultures, and world regions that are critical to U.S. national security but are less frequently studied by U.S. graduate students.

The 2009-10 deadline is in January of 2009. (Stay tuned to this site for the fianl date)

For more information, eligibility guidelines and application materials visit the NSEP Graduate Fellowship website.

BUTEX Scholarship for North American Students

This scholarship is open to US college students who will studying abroad at a UK BUTEX (British Transatlantic Exchange Association) member instition for a full academic year.

The award amount is $1000. Application deadlines are typically in late August or early September.

For more information, to learn if your UK study abroad site is a BUTEX member or for application materials visit the BUTEX Scholarship website.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers opportunities for recent graduates, postgraduate candidates, and developing professionals and artists to conduct career-launching study and research abroad.

The campus application deadline for 2008-09 has passed. The Application deadline for 2009-10 is early October of 2008.

For more information, eligibility and application materials please see the Fulbright website.

The University of Southern Maine Fulbright on-campus representative is Domenica T. Cipollone, Director of International Exchange.

Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom.

Eligibility: Open only to United States citizens who (at the time they take up their Scholarship) hold a first degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the United States with a minimum GPA of 3.7. To qualify for awards tenable from October 2006, candidates must have graduated from their undergraduate college or university after April 2003.

Value: University fees, cost of living expenses, annual book grant, thesis grant, research and daily travel grants, fares to and from the United States and, where applicable, a contribution towards the support of a dependent spouse.

Deadlines: The deadline for the 2008 Scholarship has passed. The deadline for the 2009 scholarship will be in early October of 2008.

For more information visit the Marshall Scholarship website.

Rotary Scholarships

Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships - This program provides Academic-Year, Multi-Year, and Cultural scholarships to study abroad. Recipients are expected to be outstanding ambassadors of goodwill to the people of their host country through appearances before Rotary clubs and districts, civic organizations and other forums. After study is completed, scholars share their experiences with the people of their home countries and with the local Rotarians who sponsored their scholarships.

Rotary Grants for University Teachers - This program provides funding to faculty willing to share their expertise with students in developing nations.

Rotary World Peace Fellowships - This program offers annually 60 Rotary World Peace Fellowships for one to two-year master's degree programs in international relations, peace studies and conflict resolution at one of six Rotary Centers for International Studies located at prestigious universities around the globe.

Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program- This program provides professional development certificate study in peace and conflict resolution for individuals with established professional careers. Participants study in one of two three-month sessions held per year at the Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The intensive sessions are conducted in English and are taught from July-September and January- April. A portion of each session is dedicated to in-class study of the theoretical elements of conflict resolution while the remaining portion is spent in the field applying theoretical knowledge.

We ask for your assistance in publicizing these opportunities and sharing the enclosed information with students and faculty interested in international education, particularly those seeking financial assistance for foreign study or instruction. Information and application materials for all programs can be found on the Rotary International Website.

U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

The United States Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for intensive overseas study for Summer 2008 in critical need languages such as Arabic, Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish and Urdu.


The appliation for 2008 will be available later this fall. Please visit the website for more information or to sign up for notification of when the application becomes available.

Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Fellowship Opportunities for Ph.D. Students

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research - The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance.

Andrew W. Mellon East-Central European Research Fellows - The program of fellowships enables Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Slovak scholars in the humanities and allied social sciences to carry out research at institutes of advanced study in other countries.