Critical Language Scholarship

Website

https://www.clscholarship.org/ 

Award Details

Awarded for 8-10 weeks fully-funded overseas foreign language instruction and cultural enrichment experience in 15 critical need languages for US students in higher education. 

Eligibility

  • US citizenship
  • Undergraduate or graduate student
  • No previous language study required for Azerbaijani, Bangla, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian, Punjabi, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu
  • One year of previous language study required for Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian
  • Two years of previous language study required for Chinese, and Japanese

Application Timeline

Deadline: November annually for language institute the following summer
Scholars are notified in March annually

Mines Contact

Ashley Weibel

Assistant Director, Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships

ashley.weibel@mines.edu

Mines Critical Language Scholarship Recipients

Year

Name

Field of Study

Country

2016 David Klausmeier Geological Engineering Jordan
2009 Akira Rattenbury Engineering Tunisia
2009 Erik Pavlina Engineering South Korea
2008 Jackson Lee Engineering China