May 2024 - National and Global Scholarships Advising at Oregon State University is pleased to announce that 12 OSU students are among the American undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the 2024-2025 academic year.

OSU’s 2024 Gilman scholars are participating in all types of study abroad programs; students will be participating in faculty-led summer programs, academic study abroad, and international internships. They will travel to eight different countries: Malaysia, Brazil, New Zealand, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Gabon, and Italy.* 7 Gilman Scholars this year hail from OSU’s Ecampus, while 5 are from OSU’s Corvallis campus. Scholars represent the colleges of  Forestry, Agricultural Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Science and come from across disciplines. These students were awarded scholarships representing a combined total of $44,500 for summer 2024, fall 2024, and academic year 2024-2025 programs. 

*Recipients will be permitted to travel to countries with a Level 1 or Level 2 State Department Travel Advisories and all others will be offered the option to defer.  Please visit the Gilman website for more information on the scholarship’s Travel Advisory Policy.  

Nationally, the U.S. Department of State announced that it has awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to approximately 2,100 American undergraduate students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands who applied in the spring 2024 cycle. All are recipients of the Pell Grant, a federal grant for U.S. undergraduate students with exceptional financial need. On average, 70 percent of Gilman recipients self-identify as racial or ethnic minorities, 60 percent are from rural areas and small towns across America, and half are first-generation college or university students.

Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 41,000 Gilman scholars have studied or interned in more than 160 countries around the globe. Supported by the U.S. Congress, the Gilman Scholarship is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is aided in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE).  To learn more about the Gilman Scholarship, and its recipients, including this newest cohort, visit gilmanscholarship.org.

The Gilman Program aims to make study abroad, and its career advantages, more accessible and inclusive for students from the United States. The program particularly focuses on supporting first-generation college students, students in the STEM fields, ethnic and racial minority students, students with disabilities, students who are veterans, students attending community colleges and minority serving institutions, and other populations underrepresented in study abroad, as well as broadening the destinations where scholars study or intern. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gilman Program has offered expanded options to scholars, including allowing them to use the scholarship for virtual international study and internship programs. 

Oregon State University students who wish to apply may seek advising and support from the National and Global Scholarships Advising Office https://topscholars.oregonstate.edu/. For more information, please contact LeAnn Adam, OSU National and Global Scholarships Advising Director: leann.adam@oregonstate.edu