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Student Opportunities

Please check out the below student funding and travel opportunities, and let us know if you have others to add to this list.

Cornell Funding Opportunities for Students

U.S. Funding Opportunities for Students

  • The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.
  • The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to western European countries is not eligible.
  • The Luce Scholars Program is a competitive national fellowship program that welcomes applications from college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals who are U.S. citizens/permanent residents who have had limited exposure to Asia.
  • Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded to graduating seniors, college graduates, graduate students and young/mid-career professionals for advanced study of Chinese (in Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, or Vietnamese in Asia. Study of Chinese in Beijing is available as a Blakemore Fellowship. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States, have completed (at minimum) the third year of study of the Asian language, and are ready to advance to professional fluency.
  • Blakemore Kingfisher Art History Language Fellowships will be awarded for study of Chinese or Korean in East Asia. These grants are open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and to foreign nationals studying in colleges or universities in the United States or Canada, who have a well-demonstrated intent to study the pre-twentieth century history of Chinese or Korean art at the doctoral level. Applicants must have received a bachelor's degree by the start of a grant and have completed (at minimum) two years of classroom study of the language in rigorous college-level language programs.

Chinese Funding Opportunities for Students

  • China's Schwarzman Scholarship supports a one-year master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing in one of three fields: public policy, international studies, or economics and business. Instruction is in English, and citizens under 29 years of all countries are eligible.