External Scholarships & Grants

Scholarship Resources:

There are many scholarships and grant monies available to students that can be applied education abroad programs. Be sure to check with the Office of Financial Aid to determine how your specific scholarships may be applied to your education abroad program. In addition, recipients of private scholarships need to check with the issuing agency to determine if these may be applied toward the education abroad program of your choice.

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

  • The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards for undergraduate study abroad. It provides awards for students receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two year or four year college or university.

Blessed to be a Blessing: Study Abroad Scholarships

  • B2baB is a Denver-based nonprofit, founded by a CSU alumnus, wanting to increase access to education abroad programs for local low-income and underrepresented students. Students must be graduates from a Denver or Aurora Public High School to apply.

Boren Awards for International Study: Scholarships and Fellowships

  • Undergraduate and graduate level funding for study abroad with an emphasis on study of critical language to U.S. interests. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Bridging Scholarships for Study Abroad in Japan

  • The US-Japan Bridging Foundation has provided scholarships since 1999 through the American Association of Teachers of Japanese to assist students to study in Japan.

British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association (BUTEX)

  • Each year BUTEX, awards a number of scholarships to students studying abroad for either a semester or for a whole academic year.

Critical Language Scholarship Program

  • Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) institutes provide fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizens.

DAAD-Germany

  • DAAD offers a wide range of funding opportunities for individuals in a variety of study, research and internship experiences in Germany.

Freeman-ASIA

  • Freeman-ASIA is designed to support U.S.-based undergraduates with demonstrated financial need who are planning to study overseas in East or Southeast Asia.

Fulbright Program

  • The Fulbright program offers grants to study, teach and conduct research for U.S. citizens to go abroad and non-U.S. citizens to come to the United States.

Fund for Education Abroad

  • FEA is committed to increasing the opportunities for dedicated American students to participate in high-quality, rigorous education abroad programs.

Gilman-McCain Scholarship

  • The U.S. Department of State’s Gilman-McCain Scholarship provides awards of $5,000 for undergraduate child dependents of active duty service members to study or intern abroad on credit-bearing programs.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

  • Fifty $1,000 grants are awarded each year to help support undergraduates as they seek knowledge and experience in their academic fields by studying abroad. Deadline is April 1st.