Fellowships and Scholarships

Please visit the links below to learn more about scholarship opportunities specifically for Loyola students who study abroad. If you have any questions, please contact your Study Abroad Advisor.

Building International Bridges Awards

This award supports current Juniors and Seniors who have a major in Loyola’s College of Arts and Sciences that are studying abroad during the fall semester, spring semester, January-term (J-term), or summer. Multiple scholarships of $1,000 are awarded.

For questions, contact CASloyola@LUC.edu.

John Felice Rome Center Scholarships

Loyola’s Rome Center offers awards for sophomores and above that are admitted to the Rome Center. Scholarships range from $600 to $5,000. In order to apply, students must have demonstrated financial need by sharing their FASFA information with Loyola. The scholarship can be accessed here. One application puts students in the running for multiple awards!

For questions, contact Rome@LUC.edu.

USAC/LUC Partner Scholarship

For Loyola students that are admitted to a USAC study abroad program, there is a scholarship applicant questionnaire inside your GoGlobal portal that you will have access to once accepted. Filling this questionnaire out will automatically put you in the running for a USAC/LUC partner scholarship!

For questions, contact StudyAbroad@LUC.edu.

Please visit the websites below to understand the scholarship specific deadlines, application instructions, and eligibility requirements. Most websites below are external scholarships. However, if you have any questions, please contact your Study Abroad Advisor. We will do our very best to assist you.

Gilman Scholarship

For U.S. citizens who are also Pell-eligible and participating on academic year, semester, summer j-term, or spring break programs. Gilman awards up to $5,000.

If you would like assistance in applying, please contact the Loyola Fellowships Office or your Study Abroad Advisor.

Gilman-McCain Scholarship

For child and spousal dependents of active or activated United States military personnel participating on academic year, semester, summer j-term, or spring break programs. Applicants must be recipients of any type of Title IV federal financial aid. Gilman-McCain awards up to $5,000.

If you would like assistance in applying, please contact the Loyola Fellowships Office or your Study Abroad Advisor.

Freeman-ASIA

Need-based funding specifically for U.S. citizens or permanent residents studying abroad in East or Southeast Asia for a minimum of 8 weeks. Semester and summer awards are available.

Fund for Education Abroad (FEA)

For U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or DACA recipients. Must have demonstrated financial need. Awards up to $5,000.

If you have questions, feel free to contact FEA directly: fea@fundforeducationabroad.org.

Boren Awards

For U.S. citizens who are planning to study in an overseas location in which they are not a citizen. The location must be outside of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. Preference is given to students who participate on academic year programs and are studying a language. However, semester students and most majors are also eligible. Awards range from $8,000 to $25,000.

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)

The CLS Program provides immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States' national security and economic prosperity.

Illinois Global Scholarships

For students participating in global experiences in Asia of any length. Awards up to $2,000.

US-Japan Building Bridges Scholarship

For undergraduates students studying abroad in Japan for at least 1 semester. Awards range from $2,500 for semester students and $4,500 for academic year students. Each year there is one application deadline: March 15th.

Tortuga Backpacks Study Abroad Scholarship

For undergraduate students who are studying abroad at a U.S. university. Awards up to $1,000. All terms are welcome to apply.

Explore the World Travel Scholarship

For U.S. citizens, residents, or green card holders 18-30 years old. You must be able to demonstrate financial need and have limited travel experience. Awards are up to $2,000 for all terms.

For questions, contact scholarship@hiusa.org.

Japan-America Society (JASWDC) Tanaka & Green Scholarship

The Society awards up to $5,000 for academic year students and up to $4,000 for semester students studying abroad in Japan. The scholarship may be used for any combination of tuition and other academic fees, room and board, travel and transportation (including travel within Japan), and other approved expenses.

For questions, contact: info@jaswdc.org.

Japan Monbukagakusho Scholarships

The Government of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology provides 4 different scholarships for students interested in studying abroad at Japanese universities. Visit the website to learn more.

Go Overseas Scholarships

The organization Go Overseas strives to make studying abroad less intimidating and more affordable. Their website lists many external scholarships you could be eligible for.

Harper Brown Scholarship

This scholarship is for students who plan to study abroad in Scotland. It gives preference to members of Chicago Scots, their children, or their grandchildren. It is available for all study abroad terms.

Corinne Jeannine Shillings Foundation Scholarships

The Corinne Jeannine Schillings Foundation awards two types of scholarships to undergraduate women who have attained the Girl Scout Silver or Gold Award: the Academic Scholarship to study a Foreign Language, and the Scholarship to Study Abroad. The awards are available for all terms.

DAAD Awards

DAAD offers many scholarships for undergraduates studying abroad in Germany for programs between 1-12 months.

For questions, contact: daad.newyork@daad.de.

U.S. Fulbright Program

Fulbright participants have the chance to pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English abroad post-graduation. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities in all academic disciplines to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds.

Boren Fellowships

Boren fellowships are available to students pursuing graduate school. Boren funds research and language study proposals in world regions critical to U.S. interests.

Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.

Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship

The Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship connects undergraduate students with two faculty members in different disciplines on a research project that engages multiple disciplinary lenses. In an effort to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, this fellowship was created to provide a pathway for students to engage directly in interdisciplinary research. With support from two faculty mentors from different disciplinary perspectives, students are encouraged to engage in research that demonstrates how knowledge creation is enhanced with multi-disciplinary approaches.

Provost Fellowship

The Provost Fellowship, housed in the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS), is designed for undergraduate students in any academic discipline who are interested in either establishing an individual project with faculty mentor oversight or working with a faculty member on their ongoing research as a research assistant. This opportunity may be a summer or an academic-year research project.

Research Experience for Teachers in Biodiversity Studies 

The focus of this program is Biodiversity in an urban setting. The loss of biodiversity is one of the biggest challenges of our time and thus biodiversity science is one of the fastest-growing and most integrative fields in all of science and incorporates questions and methodologies from a range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, geology, computer science, math, and statistics.

Ricci Scholars Program

The Ricci Scholars Program provides highly qualified students scholarships to conduct research during a junior year of study at the Loyola campus in Rome, Italy, during Fall Semester and a destination in Asia during the Spring Semester. The two Ricci Seminars, UNIV 301 and UNIV 302, are Engaged Learning courses. Applications are in the fall of Sophomore year.

Rudis Fellowship

The Rudis Fellowship is a research scholarship program throughout the academic year for students whose research focuses on the comparative study of constitutions.

Social Justice Research Fellowship

The Social Justice Research Fellowship supports students conducting faculty-mentored research that explores issues of social justice or contributes to social justice.

Biology Research Fellowship Program

The Biology Research Fellowship Program, coordinated by the Biology Department, offers the opportunity for students to engage in faculty-guided scientific research over multiple years.

Biology Summer Research Fellowship

The Biology Summer Research Fellowship is a summer research experience coordinated by the Biology Department for majors interested in working on faculty research. Students are selected by faculty mentors to engage in this program.

Carbon Scholars Program

The Carbon Scholars Program is a full two-year, interdisciplinary research opportunity for science and math majors to work closely with faculty mentors. The program is designed for students who plan to pursue research in graduate or professional school.

The Carroll and Adelaide Johnson Scholarship

The Carroll and Adelaide Johnson Scholarship offers rising juniors opportunities to conduct a two-year research project, under the mentorship of a Loyola faculty member, that addresses a social justice issue focused on women and/or gender.

The Baum Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the School for Environmental Sustainability (SES)

This fellowship provides both summer and academic-year research projects for students interested in researching urban environmental issues.

Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) Undergraduate Research Fellowship

The CCIH fellowship offers an academic-year research fellowship to undergraduate students enrolled in the Catholic Studies Minor program. This fellowship supports CCIH-funded faculty research projects, as well as CCIH’s international research projects.

John Grant Fellowships for Research in Bioethics

Starting in spring semester 2022, the John Grant Endowment for Health Care Ethics will be offering 3 research fellowships in bioethics. These fellowships will be awarded to undergraduate students who propose a research plan to work with a faculty member or doctoral student on a project of their choosing that relates to health care, bioethics, human health and the environment, human or animal research, biotechnologies, or any other bioethics-related topic.

Mulcahy Scholars Program

The Mulcahy Scholars Program is designed for College of Arts and Sciences majors in the natural sciences who are interested in working on individual projects with faculty mentors or serving as a research assistant for ongoing faculty projects in the academic year

The William and June Pizzi Undergraduate Research Fellowship

The Pizzi Undergraduate Research Fellowship is a one-year fellowship for students majoring or minoring in Neuroscience. The student receives $3500 in hourly pay, a $3500 research budget, and $1000 for travel to present their work. Applications are due March 1 through the LUROP Application Portal.

Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) Fellows

CURL offers fellowships for undergraduate students interested in participating in community research projects with community organizations.

College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Experience

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Undergraduate Summer Research Experience was designed to foster engaging, high-impact, faculty-mentored research experiences for CAS undergraduate students early in their academic careers (i.e., the summer following either the freshman or sophomore years). This program is a 4-week research immersion to introduce students with little or no prior experience in hands-on research under the mentorship of CAS faculty. Fellowships will be awarded across three broad CAS research areas: Basic Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Women in Science Enabling Research (WISER)

The WISER program seeks to support women currently in and potentially interested in careers in the sciences. The WISER program offers mentoring, builds community, and offers Loyola University undergraduates of all identities the tools to explore careers in science and research. Undergraduate students interested in STEM fields with no prior laboratory or research experience are invited to apply to the Laura L. Mayer Mentorship Program, which runs from September through April each academic year.

Barry Goldwater Scholarship

By providing scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering, the Goldwater Foundation is helping ensure that the U.S. is producing the number of highly qualified professionals the Nation needs in these critical fields.

Astronaut Scholarship Foundation

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation was created to ensure that the United States would maintain its leadership in science and technology by supporting some of the very best science, technology, engineering and math college students.

Sally Ride Fellowship

The Sally Ride Fellowship seeks to help young LGBTQ+ individuals in the space industry excel and not have to hide who they are for fear of discrimination. Underrepresentation of LGBTQ+ individuals in aerospace has been a long-standing problem that individuals and companies alike have now been seeking to remedy.

RISE Germany (Research Internships in Science and Engineering)

RISE stands for Research Internships in Science and Engineering. RISE Germany offers undergraduate students from North American, British and Irish universities the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and research institutions. RISE Germany is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP)

An opportunity for students in college, graduate, and professional school to perform a summer research internship in the Intramural Research Program at the NIH.

AMGEN Scholars Program

Each summer hundreds of undergraduates step into some of the world’s premier research universities and institutions to participate in the Amgen Scholars Program. Students conduct hands-on research in the lab alongside top faculty, participate in seminars and networking events, and take part in symposia with their peers and leading scientists.

Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)

In order to advance the frontiers of research in neuroscience, the Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division recognizes the need to bring new ideas and perspectives by providing pathways to science. The goal of the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research training opportunities.

Dojo Grants (Nucleate Dojo)

DojoGrants is an initiative run by Nucleate Dojo designed to remove financial barriers for undergraduate students pursuing life sciences research. As the first institution-agnostic, year-round funding program for undergraduate biotech researchers, we provide direct funding, mentorship, and community to promising students across the U.S. and Canada.

PPIA Junior Summer Institute Fellowship Program

The PPIA Junior Summer Institute Fellowship is a fully funded, seven-week program hosted by one of three Universities. You will gain the skills, network, and confidence to succeed in graduate school and beyond.

Fulbright Summer UK Institute

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are three-to-four-week programs for US undergraduate students, who have no or very little travel experience outside North America. Participants can explore the culture, heritage and history of the UK while experiencing higher education at a UK university.

Some applications are due while you are still an undergrad, plan ahead!

Fulbright

Some Fulbright awards can be used to earn an advanced degree while studying abroad. Check individual Fulbright program pages for more information

Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.

Gates Cambridge

Each year Gates Cambridge offers c.80 full-cost scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Approximately two-thirds of these awards will be offered to PhD students, with approximately 25 awards available in the US round and 55 available in the international round.

Harry S. Truman Scholarship

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a highly competitive and prestigious scholarship for college juniors who have outstanding leadership potential, plan to pursue careers in public service, and wish to attend graduate school in the U.S. or abroad to prepare for their careers. The scholarship carries an award of $30,000 plus a variety of educational and leadership development opportunities. As many as 65 Truman Scholarships will be awarded nationally each year.