Boren Scholarship Program

Boren Scholarship Basics

Boren Scholarships provide American undergraduate students with the resources and
encouragement they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world critical to the
future security of our nation, in exchange for their commitment to seek work in the federal
government.
Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in
areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad,
including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.
Boren Scholars represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying
less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili.
Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP),
which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S.
national security. Applicants should identify how their study abroad program, as well as their
future academic and career goals, will contribute to U.S. national security, broadly
defined. NSEP draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of
national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and
promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable
development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and
migration, and economic competitiveness.

To view the Program Basics for the Boren Scholarship,
http://www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship/basics.html