Funding and Scholarships

Research Resources

All Students

• Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD) | Database searches yield scholarship and award results across numerous fields of study.
  • Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants
• Boren Awards for International Study
  • Graduate opportunities include Boren Fellowships
  • Undergraduate opportunities include Boren Scholarships

• The European Commission's Erasmus Mundus Scholarships | Scholarships are available for students to attend graduate courses as well as study/research in partner institutions in the European Union.

• Fulbright U.S. Student Program
  • USF's Fulbright Resources on Campus

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | DAAD is the "German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation." It promotes international academic relations and cooperation by offering "mobility programs" for students, faculty, and administrators in higher education. It also represents the German higher education system internationally, promotes Germany as an academic and research destination, and helps build collaborations between institutions globally. 

• The Institute of International Education | IIE manages more than 200 programs with participants from more than 185 countries. In the last year alone, more than 27,000 people participated in IIE managed programs. Use the program finder to explore opportunities. 

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) | The JSPS provides support for available research opportunities on specifically identified initiatives, research         fellowships, international collaborations, university research and education, and university-industry research cooperation. This support ranges from funding students to funding top world-level research centers.

• Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills | Opportunities are funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and exist in a variety of areas and program themes.

• U.S. Department of Education's International and Foreign Language Education Office

• U.S. Department of State's 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. citizen undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. students.

• The USF Multilingual Writing Center offers FREE one-on-one writing consultations to international and/or multilingual USF graduate students from any field who may encounter unique challenges in the academic writing process. They hold 45-minute sessions in which students will be working one-on-one with Sean Farrell, a doctoral student in the USF Linguistics and Applied Language Studies program and a writing consultant with several years' experience working at writing centers and teaching composition.
  
  
• USF Muma College of Business Global Engagement Opportunities
  
  • International Business Scholarships and Study Abroad Funding
  • International internships

• USF College of Public Health Opportunities

• USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC)
  
  
• USF Office of National Scholars (ONS)

• USF Student Government's Tampa Interim Funding and Grants

• USF World
  
  • Education Abroad

 

Graduate Students

• Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the U.S. | Supports research and mobility of U.S. students in and to France. Sub-programs are available for students in: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); and Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).

• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships Program | This program provides fellowship allocations to institutions of higher education to assist graduate students in foreign language and area or international studies. Students should visit here for a list of currently funded FLAS institutions and contact the schools directly regarding selection procedures and competition schedules.
  
  
• Fulbright-Hays Training  Grants – Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad | Opportunities are available to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months.
  
  
• Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Ph.D. Fellowship Program | This fellowship is available to those Ph.D. students who have advanced to candidacy and are seeking funding for dissertation research in Latin America and the Caribbean on grassroots development issues. Funding will not be supported for clinical research in the health field.
  
  
• Fulbright Postgraduate Student Award at the University of South Florida, in honour of Judy Genshaft | This award enables a British student to pursue a Ph.D. at USF for up to four years. This funding is covered in the first year by the Fulbright Award, and in years two, three and four by a teaching/research assistantship at USF.

• USF Office of Graduate Studies has various resources for graduate funding, including a list of internal, external, fellowship, and assistantship opportunities.

 

Undergraduate Students

• Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
  
  
• Judy Genshaft Honors College
  
  • International  Travel/Study Scholarships

• Office of High Impact Practices and Undergraduate Research (HIPUR)
  • Research Opportunities | Opportunities vary annually and may exist for conference presentation travel, interdisciplinary research, community partnership projects, and research in the arts.
  • Please contact HIPUR for more information.

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