International Study
While you are thinking about the rest of your Yale experience, you might also want to begin thinking about international study. Yale College believes that study of the international world and firsthand experience of foreign cultures are important for understanding the increasingly global future. You can go abroad for a term or for an entire academic year during your Yale experience, and with proper planning you can do so and still graduate with your class. If you are on financial aid, you will continue to receive need-based aid while abroad for one or two terms in approved courses or programs. You can also go abroad during the summer through Yale Summer Session courses or Yale-organized internships, or with the help of Yale grants or fellowships. If you are on financial aid, you are eligible for an International Summer Award (ISA). As long as you participate in a Yale-designated summer program abroad, the ISA offers funding based on demonstrated need during the preceding academic year, as well as a grant equal to your expected summer contribution for the next academic year. You may receive only one ISA. See www.yale.edu/isa. |
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At Yale you will have the resources of the Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs, Undergraduate Career Services, and Yale Summer Session to help you in your planning. Intermediate ability in the language of the country in which you wish to study, travel, or work will help your plans, so consider that point early. The Student Grants Database brings together in a comprehensive, searchable resource those grants and fellowships funded or administered by Yale. You might take a look at it this summer and begin to imagine yourself in Europe, Asia, Africa, China, Russia, or almost anywhere at all!
