Scholarships to Study Abroad in High School

Applying to College
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<p>If you're interested in languages, cultures, and traveling, definitely take a look at these state department programs. These are all full scholarships to study language and culture in a foreign country. </p>

<p>I'm an alumnus of NSLI-Y - just trying to let everybody else get the same awesome opportunities I did :)</p>

<p>NSLI-Y: <a href="http://nsliforyouth.org"&gt;http://nsliforyouth.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>NSLI-Y programs offer intensive language immersion in a variety of locations around the world. Beginners are welcome to apply for any of the target languages.</p>

<p>Scholarships are available for students to learn the following languages for either a summer or a year:</p>

<p>Arabic
Chinese (Mandarin)
Hindi
Korean
Persian (Tajiki)
Russian
Turkish
Programs may take place in the following locations:</p>

<p>China
Estonia
India
Jordan
Korea
Moldova
Morocco
Oman
Russia
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Turkey
Other locations
around the world</p>

<p>YES Abroad: <a href="http://yes-abroad.org"&gt;http://yes-abroad.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The U.S. Department of State's Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad (YES Abroad) program, provides competitive merit-based scholarships for U.S. secondary school students (age 15-18.5) to study for one academic year in select countries. </p>

<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ghana
India
Indonesia
Macedonia
Malaysia
Morocco
Oman
Philippines
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey</p>

<p>CBYX: <a href="http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org"&gt;http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The U.S. State Department funded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) is for motivated high school students who want to fully immerse themselves in German culture by living with a host family and attending a local high school. No previous language experience is required.</p>

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<p>Man too bad Japan isn’t on there. :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>To follow up on this, also consider NSLI-Y’s sister program, the Critical Language Scholarship (<a href=“http://www.clscholarship.org/”>http://www.clscholarship.org/&lt;/a&gt;) which is for college students and offers the following languages :</p>

<p>Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, and Urdu at the beginning, advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels; </p>

<p>Arabic and Persian at the advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels; and </p>

<p>Chinese, Japanese, and Russian at the Intermediate and advanced levels.</p>