There are dozens of study abroad scholarships and grants!
If you currently receive an academic scholarship or a scholarship from an outside source you will need to check with your scholarship advisor on if you can transfer that scholarship for study abroad.
If you plan to apply to any of the following scholarships or want to learn about more scholarship opportunities please contact the education abroad office at educationabroad@umbc.edu!
Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship
- Requirements: Must be current recipient of Pell Grant
- Awards: $3,000-$5,000; student studying a critical language can receive up to an additional $3,000
- Many study abroad providers provide matching grants
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
- Deadlines: Early March and early October
Boren Scholarship
- Requirements: Must engage in critical language study during study program outside of Western Europe, North America or Australia/New Zealand
- Prefers longer (six months or longer) study programs
- Awards: Summer: $8,000 (STEM majors only), semester $12,500, year: $25,000
- Deadline: Early February
- Fully funded language flagship opportunities for Indonesian, Hindi and Urdu, Turkish, and African Languages (including French)
Fund for Education Abroad
- Requirement: Program must be longer than 4 weeks
- Awards: $5,000 for a semester, $10,000 for Academic Year
- Minimum of $1,250 for Summer (depends on the length of program)
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer
- Deadline: Mid January
Golden Key
- Requirements: Golden Key membership
- Awards: Up to $2,500
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall
- Deadline: Mid June
Critical Language Scholarship
- Requirement: Sustained interest in study of a critical language
- Awards: all costs of eight-week intensive summer language study program
- Terms: Summer
- Deadline: Mid November
Phi Kappa Phi
- Requirement: Attendance at an institution with active Phi Kappa Phi chapter, 3.75 GPA or higher.
- Awards: $1,000
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer
- Deadlines: Mid March
Diversity Abroad Overseas Ambassador Scholarship
- Requirements: Minimum 2.75 GPA, economically disadvantaged, first-generation, students with disabilities and/or ethnic and racially diverse students are strongly encouraged to apply
- Award: $500 stipend
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
- Deadline: Late May
Freeman Asia Scholarship
- Requirement: Plan to study in East or Southeast Asia, minimum 2.8 GPA
- $7,000 for academic Year, $5,000 for a semester and $3,000 for Summer
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer
- Deadline: March
Rainbow Scholarship
- Requirements: U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or DACA student, currently enrolled as undergraduate, minimum 4 weeks of study in credit-bearing program, identify as LGBTQ+
- Awards up to $10,000
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer
- Deadlines: Academic Year/Fall: Early January, Spring/Summer: Early September
Go Overseas Study Abroad Scholarship
- Requirement: Open to all students
- $500
- Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer
- Deadlines: Award is given out twice early, deadline is usually early August and early January
Other Creative Funding Options
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