The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is pleased to announce the spring 2014 awards offered.  Eighty selection panelists from various colleges and universities across the nation met at the IIE office in Houston, Texas to review over 2,600 applications.  Over 700 outstanding students were selected to receive the scholarship to attend study abroad programs and international internships for academic credit in locations all around the world.  

The Gilman International Scholarship Program is a congressionally funded program sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State and is administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) through IIE’s office in Houston, Texas.  The Gilman Scholarship Program offers U.S. undergraduate students of high financial need grants of up to $5,000 to participate in a study abroad program or international internships eligible for academic credit.  Students studying a critical need language could be eligible to receive a grant of up to $8,000.  The Gilman Program aims to diversify the kinds of students who study and intern abroad and the countries and regions where they go by supporting U.S. undergraduates who might otherwise not consider these unique and developmental opportunities due to financial constraints.