Brief Description:
The Scholarship helps displaced
students from all over the world who are unable to complete their higher
education. While pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees at any of
Columbia’s 19 schools and affiliations, these students will receive up to full
tuition, housing, and living aid, proving the university’s complete commitment
to addressing the global crisis. As the first-ever Columbia-wide prise and the
world’s first scholarship of its kind, this programme will provide up to $6
million in support per cohort, for up to 30 students each year. Mentoring and
help will be provided through the Scholarship, as well as Columbia’s schools
and student clubs.
The Scholarship aims to shift the
worldwide conversation around displaced people from one of them being a burden
to one of them being vital contributors to global creativity and progress.
Despite these relocated student groups’ obvious desire to learn, there is
currently no project like this at any university in the world. The Columbia
University Scholarship for Displaced Students intends to be a leader in
addressing this vital humanitarian need, and other universities are expected to
follow suit.
Scholarship Details:
Opportunity Type: Fully
Funded
Language of Instruction: English
Deadline:
Different deadline for each degree
Language Requirement: The result of the English proficiency test
Types of Displacement:
·
Refugee
·
Asylee
·
Asylum Seeker
·
Temporary Protected Status
(TPS)
·
Internally Displaced
Persons (IDP)
·
Afghan students on
humanitarian parole or with special immigrant visas who have been displaced
Level of
study:
·
Bachelor Degree
·
Master’s Degree
·
PhD Degree
Benefits of Scholarship:
·
Full tuition
·
The student’s housing and
living expenses, for the number of terms required to complete the respective
degree, depending on the school and degree program.
Eligibility:
This scholarship program is for
foreign nationals who:
·
Have refugee status and
live anywhere in the world
·
Have been granted asylum
in the United States or have applied for asylum in the United States
·
Are in the United States
under Temporary Protected Status
·
Are Internally Displaced
Persons.
·
Scholarship is now open to
displaced Afghan students on humanitarian parole or with special immigrant
visas.
·
The scholarship is not
open to permanent residents of the United States (green card holders, citizens,
etc.).
·
Scholarship is open to
people of all ages.
How to Apply?
Applicants
must apply directly to a Columbia degree program mentioned on the scholarship
information homepage before being considered for a scholarship.
Applicants must then complete the scholarship application
form below after submitting their degree application. Each institution
and program has its own set of admissions criteria and application dates.
Acceptance into an academic program does not guarantee scholarship support
(students may be accepted to an academic program but not receive funding
through the scholarship).
BEFORE completing the scholarship form, applicants must complete
and submit their online Columbia degree application. The applicant will receive
an application ID / reference number from their Columbia school’s application
system once they have completed their online Columbia degree application. This
Columbia application ID / reference number is required to be inserted into the
scholarship application form below.
To be considered for the scholarship, applicants must complete and submit the
below form by the deadline listed on the form (which is usually, but not
always, their degree program’s application deadline).
More details on Columbia
University Scholarship for Displaced students
Deadline: Different deadline for each
degree
