The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program provides scholarships to U.S. undergraduates with financial need for study abroad, including students from diverse backgrounds and students going to non-traditional study abroad destinations. Established under the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000, Gilman Scholarships provide up to $5,000 for American students to pursue overseas study for college credit.
Critical Need Languages
Students studying critical need languages are eligible for up to $3,000 in additional funding as part of the Gilman Critical Need Language Supplement program. Those critical need languages include:
Arabic (all dialects);
Chinese (all dialects);
Bahasa Indonesia
Japanese
Turkic (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgz, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek);
Persian (Farsi, Dari, Kurdish, Pashto, Tajiki);
Indic (Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Sinhala, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi);
Korean
Russian
Swahili
Program Length: 1 Month to 1 Year
Eligibility and Application Overview
Public applications are accepted.
The scholarship program is open to all U.S. citizen undergraduates, in good academic standing who have received a Federal Pell Grant and meet the following criteria.
Eligible Applicants Must Be:
- Receiving a Federal Pell Grant or provide proof that he/she will be receiving a Pell Grant at the time of application or during the term of his/her study abroad.
- Applying to or have been accepted into a study abroad program eligible for credit by the student’s accredited institution of higher education in the United States
- Studying abroad for at least four weeks in one country. Programs going to more than one country are eligible if the student will be studying in one country for at least four consecutive weeks
- Studying abroad in any country except Cuba or a country on the U.S. Department of State’s current Travel Warning List
Now accepting Gilman Scholarship applications for Summer 2016 and Fall 2016/Academic Year 2016-2017.
Deadline for both applications is March 1, 2016 at 11:59pm CST for both terms.
