Concerned about funding your abroad experience? Learn about external scholarships, using your Brandeis financial aid, and budget techniques!

1. Affording Study Abroad
Using your resources to determine if studying abroad is
feasible for your financial situation

2. Who Do I Pay?
1. Brandeis
2. Study Abroad Program Charges
3. Personal Fees Accrued

3. Paying Brandeis
 Brandeis University Tuition
 $21,148/semester (‘12-13 fee, subject to change next
year)
 Off- Campus Study Fee
 $400/semester
 International Sickness and Accident Insurance
 $36/month, contingent on program coverage
 Brandeis University Qualifying Student Health
Insurance
 Varies, contingent on personal coverage

4. Paying Abroad Program
 Program Deposit
 Some programs have an
additional confirmation
fee, for example CIEE is
$300 PLUS the program
fee
 Room & Board
 Some programs also
have a housing deposit

5. Personal Fees Accrued
• Flights
• Books
• Visa, Entry & Exit, Passport Fees
• Local Transportation
• Communications (cell phone, phone cards, etc.)
• Miscellaneous/ Spending Money

6. What Financial
Aid Can I Bring?
(Scholarships)
• If meets all requirements:
• Federal Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant (SEOG)
• Federal Pell Grant
• State Scholarships
• Mass. Gilbert Grants
• Faculty and Staff Tuition Remission

7. What Financial Aid Can I
Bring?
(Institutional Scholarships)
 Institutional Scholarships/Grants
 Ex. Alumni & Friends Scholarship, etc.
 Institutional Aid can only be transferable in full if the aid
does not exceed the Brandeis bill for that semester
and/or the cost of the abroad program is more than or
equal to a semester at Brandeis
 If you’re an international student please come in and
speak with a counselor

8. What Financial Aid Can I
Bring? (Loans)
Most loans if fulfills federal or private company
requirements:
 Federal Direct Stafford Loans
 Federal Perkins Loans
 Brandeis Loans and Saval Loans
 Federal Direct Parent Loans for Undergraduate
Students (PLUS)
 Other Parent and Student Private Loans (ex. MEFA)

9. What Financial Aid
Cannot Come With Me?
 Malkin Scholarship
 Slifka Schoarship
 Full Wien Scholarship
 Federal Work Study
and University
Employment

10. Can I Afford My
Program?
 Filling out the budget  Instructional video will
worksheet can help you show you how, this will be
estimate costs posted on Study Abroad
website along with this
 Keep in mind your financial powerpoint
aid, the program’s costs,
and Brandeis tuition may
change next year

11. Where Can I Find
Additional Funds?
 Scholarships for Brandeis  Program specific
Students scholarships
 Sachar Scholarships  Merit-based or need-
based
 Need-based
 Student specific
 Due in early March
 Destination specific
 Apply online or fill out
application in Usdan 127  Program specific
 Subject specific
 National and International
Scholarships…

12. Scholarship Name Amount and Criteria Application Due Date Where to apply
Benjamin A. Gilman $5,000 + additional $3,000 Early October for spring http://www.iie.org/gilman
Undergraduate Scholarship for study of a critical programs and early March
Program language for all other programs
Bridging Scholarships for Assistance with exspenses Early October http://www.colorado.edu/eall
Study in Japan incured during Japan study d/atj/bridging/scholarships.ht
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Department of State Critical Assistance with programs Application deadline for the http://www.clscholarship.org/
Language Scholarship stusying critical languages summer is Mid-November home.php
including: Arabic, Chinese,
Indic (Bangla/Bengali, Hindi,
Punjabi, Urdu), Korean,
Persian, Russian and
Turkish
Freeman-ASIA Program Up to $5,00/semester, Early October for Spring, http://www.iie.org/programs/f
$7,000/year, or Mid-February for Summer reeman-ASIA
$3,000/summer for students and Early April for Fall or
studying abroad in East or year long programs
Southeast Asia
Fund for Education Abroad Up to $1,000 for students Mid-January http://www.fundforeducationa
going abroad broad.org/applicants/scholar
ships/
German Academic Exchange Supports students interested Late January http://www.daad.org/?p=472
Services- DAAD in doing research or an 20
internship in Germany for a
4-10 month period
MASA Grants $2,000 for Jewish http://www.masaisrael.org
undergraduates studying in
Israel
NSEP Boren Award For study outside Western Mid-February http://borenawards.org
Europe, up to
$10,000/semester and
$20,000/year

13. Questions?

14. Enjoy
Abroad!
Email: gkatz10@brandeis.edu
To make an appointment call the
Office of Student Financial
Services at 781-736-3700 or email
at sfs@brandeis.edu
Feel free to contact me or make an
appointment with any questions
you may have!