More Opportunities Abroad

This list includes language schools, scholarships, and fellowships to continue your studies abroad.

• The Top Scholarships office at CU Boulder provides information on scholarships that help you participate in research or academia abroad, including many of the scholarships listed below. 
• American College of the Mediterranean Partner Pathways Full-Tuition Scholarship offers full-tuition scholarship spots for its graduate programs per academic year for alumni from IAU partner institutions.
• Check out the IAU MBA program! 
• The Aspire Leaders Program welcomes low-income, first-generation college students and recent graduates around the world to participate in a free online immersive leadership journey. 
• Concordia Language Villages: A summer language and cultural immersion program that is always looking for counselors and other staff positions with language skills in one of the fourteen languages their camps feature. 
• DAAD: This website helps students, researchers and faculty in the USA and Canada to study or research in Germany. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is a publicly-funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany. 
• Earthwatch Institute engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. 
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degrees: An Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD), is a prestigious, integrated, international study programme, jointly delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions.
• French Cultural Services offers French Government scholarships and grants for American students who want to study, research or intern in France. 
• Fulbright: The Fulbright program is a prestigious teaching, research, and study grant intended to further international cooperation and understanding. OIE welcomes proposals for projects in any Fulbright country and offers assistance to students who are in the process of application or have been accepted. Visit the Fulbright site or CU Boulder's Top Scholarships page. 
• Gradschools.com: a search engine for grad schools around the world. 
• Lafayette Fellowship: A new graduate scholarship in France for tomorrow’s leaders, open to students across STEM, humanities, social sciences, and the arts, with an interest in addressing global challenges in a French-American context. 
• The Mountbatten Program offers an opportunity for students to live, work, and study in London for a year after graduating. 
• Marshall Scholarship: These funds are available for studies towards a degree in the United Kingdom. 
• Middlebury Language Schools helps you improve language proficiency in just one summer. 
• Monbusho (Japanese Government) Research Scholarships: One and a half or two year research grants for study in the humanities, social or natural sciences at a Japanese university. No previous Japanese required, but must be willing to study the language on-site. Must be a U.S. citizen, a university or college graduate and under 35 years of age. Grant covers transportation to and from Japan, tuition and fees, living allowance and accommodations. For more information, contact the Asian Languages and Civilizations Department. 
• ProFellow: Fellowships are short-term, competitive, funded opportunities to do something exceptional. ProFellow serves as the go-to source of information on professional and academic fellowships, many of which are international. 
• The Rhodes Scholarship: For students with impressive grades and leadership who would like to study at Oxford University in the UK. 
• SIT Graduate Institute: The SIT Graduate Institute is a nonprofit, accredited graduate school that offers master’s degrees and graduate level certificates and professional development programs. 
• The US-Ireland Alliance Scholarship is a competitive scholarship for study in Ireland. 

• American-Scandinavian Foundation: Offers paid internships in Scandinavia in engineering, teaching English as a foreign language, business, and agricultural fields. 
• Bridge: For over two decades, Bridge-Linguatec has been sending language students, international volunteers, and English teachers to every corner of the globe. 

• Entremundos: Entremundos is an organization dedicated to strengthening the development of Guatemala. Volunteer and internships available. 
• Global Volunteers: This site lists both low-cost volunteering opportunities and local businesses. 
• i-to-i offers unique travel and work experiences for people of all ages, from all backgrounds. Offers a wide variety of volunteer experiences throughout the world, along with quality TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) training. 
• Idealist.org is an independent organization committed to assisting people in finding volunteer, work and teaching positions abroad. They have info on 20,000 volunteer organizations in 125 countries.
• International Volunteer Programs Association (IVPA) is a US-based professional association for administrators of volunteer abroad programs. IVPA sets standards for volunteer abroad programs. The IVPA website lists programs for volunteering abroad that adhere to the IVPA standards. 
• Omprakash: A site that connects volunteers with grassroots organizations around the world. 
• Peace Corps: Representing the rich diversity of the American people, Peace Corps Volunteers range in age from college students to retirees. Every Peace Corps Volunteer's experience is different. From teaching English to elementary school children in Zambia to launching a computer learning center in Moldova to promoting HIV/AIDS awareness in South Africa to working on soil conservation in Panama, volunteers bring their skills and life experiences to where they are needed most.   
  • CU Chapter of the Peace Corps sends volunteers to over 70 countries worldwide. Volunteers learn the local language, help with environmental engineering, teach children, assist in starting small businesses, and educate people on health and the spread of diseases.   
• VoluntarItaly: Opportunity for summer volunteering in Italy for students with an intermediate to advanced level of Italian. 
• Volunteer Latin America: A site that lists free and low-cost volunteering opportunities in Latin America. 
• Volunteer Forever lists hundreds of volunteer opportunities and program reviews. They also offer advice for financing your experience through fundraising. 
• Volunteer Thailand: Volunteer Thailand provides volunteer opportunities in the field of childcare, medical internship, and teaching. 
• World Endeavors provides volunteer, intern, and study abroad programs in several countries around the world. 
• WWOOF is a world wide network exchange that helps people to share more sustainable ways of living through linking people who want to volunteer on organic farms or smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer help. WWOOF volunteers do not pay for their stay, neither are they paid for their services. The diversity of hosts available offers a large variety of tasks and experiences.