Apply Now: Summer and Academic Year Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
Summer 2025 FLAS Fellowships
The U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program provides summer fellowships to institutions of higher education. The grant to GWU, written by the Institute for Middle East Studies, assists graduate (Master’s, PhD), professional students (JD, MPH, DrPH, MBA and MD) and undergraduate students at George Washington University to further language study and area/international studies. The Summer FLAS fellowships are intended to help students gain the equivalent of a year’s worth of college-level language study.
Academic Year 2025-26 Fellowships
The U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program provides academic year fellowships to institutions of higher education. The grant to GWU was written by the Institute for Middle East Studies. The fellowship provides support to graduate students (MA and doctoral) in the following GW schools:
- The Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA)
- The Columbian College of Arts & Sciences (CCAS)
- The Graduate School of Education & Human Development (GSEHD)
Executive education students are not eligible for FLAS. Purely online programs are not eligible. Graduate students in other GW schools (CPS, GWSB, Law, Milken, Nursing and SMHS) are not eligible for the FLAS Academic Year Fellowship but can still be considered for the FLAS Summer. Interested applicants from other schools should follow up with their respective deans’ offices.
Fellowship recipients must enroll in one eligible language course (in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish) and one eligible area studies course (that covers the Middle East) each semester.