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The Gilman-McCain International Scholarship for the Undergraduate Children of Active Duty Military Families~Helping Recipients Travel Abroad.

16 November 2019 by


Do you have a child interested in studying abroad?  The Gilman-McCain Scholarship can help!

The U.S. Department of State is proud to announce the John McCain International Scholarship for the Undergraduate Children of Military Families (Gilman-McCain Scholarship). The Scholarship is a congressionally funded initiative of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and named after the late senator John S. McCain from Arizona.

With the support of the U.S. Congress, this scholarship honors the Senator’s legacy of public service by enabling undergraduate children of active duty military to develop the leadership and career readiness skills and global perspective to pursue careers of service.

The Gilman-McCain Scholarship recipients are awarded $5,000 to be used toward the cost of study abroad or international internship programs. There is no cost to apply. To continue promoting and encouraging applications for the inaugural year of the Gilman-McCainScholarship, students have multiple application dates to apply.

The next application deadline date for overseas program start date ranges between February 2020 -October 2020 is December 1st at 11:59 pm Pacific Time.

LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE!

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