Non-UR Funding

Edupass

From this website, you can search for awards and scholarship information for international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities.

Fastweb

This is a Federal scholarship website with well over 200,000 opportunities listed.

Asian Leadership Awards Program

AT&T sponsors the Asian Leadership Awards Program. Students from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, India, New Zealand and Australia are eligible to apply if they have an I-20 or an IAP 66 dated 2001.  The application deadline is Sept. 15, 2001.  The award is $ 4,000 per student. This year 30 awards will be made.

Applications can be downloaded from AT&T's website. (Click on the 'About AT&T in AP' link.)

Foundation Center

The Foundation Center offers a main page that has resources for both US students studying and traveling abroad and for students coming to the US from abroad. For more information, please see the foundation's website.

NAFSA Grants and Scholarships for International Students

NAFSA has a web page that is devoted to resources, funding, and information for International Students.  For more information, please go to the NAFSA website.

HTH Worldwide Insurance Services Student Essay Contest

Write an essay on the topic "Compare and Contrast Your Experience in the Educational Systems of the U.S. and Your Home Country" for a chance to win a $2000, $1000, or $500 scholarship. For more information, please visit the HTH website.

International Education Financial Aid

This site has a search engine for international students to use in order to find funding for study abroad.  For more information, please go to the IEFA website.

InternationalScholarships.com

This site provides information about financial aid resources for international students wishing to study abroad. For more information, go to the International Scholarship website.

International Student.com

Rotary Foundation

The Rotary Foundation has a portion of its website dedicated to its programs for Education.  The Ambassadorial Scholarships are the oldest and best known program of the organization, offering students from around the world to study in foreign countries.  Please find out more at the Rotary's website.

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Scholarships for Greek Students Attending VA Colleges and Universities

The Hellenic Society Paideia of Virginia offers scholarships to students of Greek heritage attending colleges or universities in Virginia.

Visit the website for more information at http://hellenicpaideiaofvirginia.org/scholarship.html

P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund

These scholarships are awarded annually to women who are non-U.S./Canadian citizens for graduate study in the U.S. and Canada. The maximum amount for 12 months of a degree program is $6,000.

http://www.peointernational.org

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Fellowships for New Americans Provides Funding for Graduate Studies

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
(http://pdsoros.org/) is an annual fellowship program designed
to provide opportunities for new Americans to achieve leadership
positions in their chosen fields. For the purposes of this
program, a "new American" is an individual who (1) is a resident
alien, i.e., holds a Green Card; or (2) has been naturalized as
a U.S. citizen; or (3) is the child of two parents who are both
naturalized citizens. The fellowships provide grants for up to
two years of graduate study in the United States. The fellow
receives an annual maintenance grant of $20,000 and a tuition
grant of one-half the tuition cost of the U.S. graduate program
attended by the fellow. Thirty fellowships will be awarded each
year. The applicant must be under 30 and have a bachelor's
degree (or be a senior in college). The deadline is November 1,
2004. See http://pdsoros.org/ for more information.

For additional scholarship information, check this internal link
from the above site: http://www.pdsoros.org/links.html

J. Edwin Trader Fund for International Education

The J. Edwin Trader Fund was established in 1996 by Rebecca Trader in memory of J. Edwin Trader, an alumnus of the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, Class of 1960. Mr. Trader with his wife Rebecca offered genuine and selfless friendship to the international students at the University of Richmond.

The Trader Fund enables UR international students on visas to attend events of cultural, literary, musical, artistic, or historic interest in Richmond or the vicinity. Students will have the opportunity to attend one event per academic year as long as funds are available. Students will purchase their ticket and be reimbursed for the LOWEST priced ticket for the event. Student prices are available for some performances, but they must ask for a student ticket. Tickets are non-transferable. To participate, students must:

Notify the Office of International Education about their intent to use the Trader Fund and approximate cost of the ticket.

Purchase their own ticket. Students will be reimbursed for the lowest priced ticket, but can pay the additional cost themselves for a higher priced ticket.

Attend the event.

Bring a ticket stub or receipt to the Office of International Education no later than 2 weeks after the date printed on the receipt, as well as a completed Trader Fund Request for Reimbursement Form.

When your reimbursement request is ready for processing, Jennifer Stevens will email you and ask you to come to the Office of International Education. If you requested to receive a cash reimbursement, she will give you a form to take to the Cashier’s Office in Sarah Brunet Hall. If you requested to be reimbursed by check, she will have you sign a form which she will then forward to the Accounts Payable department. Please be advised that reimbursements by check take 2-3 weeks for processing.

Examples of cultural events include museums, historical sites, festivals, concerts, theater or other arts performances.

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Loans for International Students

International Education Finance Corporation

This site has loans designed specifically for International students planning to study in the USA.  In order to be eligible, there must be a co applicant who is an American citizen or permanent resident who has lived and worked in the USA for at least two years prior to the application.  For more information, please go to the International Education Finance Corporation website.

EDUCAID: Loans for International Students and Foreign Study

This site has loans specifically for Canadian students (The applicant must be a Canadian citizen) and also for all International students.  In order to be eligible for the non specific international student loan, there must be a co applicant who is an American citizen or permanent resident who has lived and worked in the USA for at least two years prior to application.  Please go to the EDUCAID website.

The Leo S. Rowe Pan American Fund

The Fund, administered by the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.,  offers interest-free loans for higher education for students from Latin America and the Caribbean. Citizens of Latin American and Caribbean member countries of the Organization of American States qualify for a loan if they are undergraduate or graduate student studying in the US in a program leading to a university degree at an accredited institution or a student or professional pursuing advanced studies, research, or technical activities in arts & science in the U.S. For more information, visit the Fund website.

International Student Loan

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