Undergraduate Student Global Resources

• View general information for prospective study abroad students.
• Direct Matriculation Programs Leading to SFS Language Proficiency.
• View information for current study abroad students on course loads and returning to Georgetown.
• All GU based language study abroad programs

Week in Spring

• Centennial Labs (Various international and US locations.)
  • Centennial Labs are SFS classes built around an issue, idea, problem, or challenge in a real community. They are both cross-curricular and experiential at the core. Students work with one or more professors across disciplines to learn the theory critical to understanding the situation. They develop practical approaches or solutions within the “lab”; and share it with the community beyond the classroom.
• Alternative Breaks: Center for Social Justice (Winter Break, Spring Break, and Summer)
  • The Alternative Breaks Program (ABP) brings together Georgetown community members in order to foster intersectional solidarity and inspire lasting commitments to service and social justice. ABP trips engage with diverse and vibrant communities through direct service, immersion, and reflection in a substance-free environment. By creating a space for sustained dialogue and action, ABP strives to build long-term relationships with community partners and bring the experience home.
• Kenya Alternative Break: African Studies Program
  • Led by the African Studies program since 2011, this week-long alternative spring break program for graduate and undergraduate students includes visits with government, firms, and development organizations. Since 2017,  the program has been held in Nairobi, Kenya. Students study one of Africa’s most dynamic political economies, which boasts major innovations in health, decentralization, mobile technology, and business, but still faces entrenched development challenges.

Summer

• OGE Summer Programs (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America): Office of Global Education
  • Explore the world, meet new friends, and hone your language skills at summer term programs offered by the Office of Global Education. Take courses at global universities and educational institutions alongside fellow Georgetown students.
• Summer in Barcelona or Oxford: McDonough School of Business
  • Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is proud to partner with the Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE), one of the world’s top business schools, located in San Cugat, in the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. During this four-week program, students complete two courses: Business and Government Relations and Marketing Across Borders, taught by expert lecturers; students also visit cultural sites and local businesses to complement their coursework.
  • For the past 40 years, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has partnered with Oxford University to enable undergraduate students to further their global awareness and international experience with summer study in the United Kingdom. Conducted over five weeks, the Comparative Strategic Management Program compares business functions in Great Britain, Western Europe, and the United States. Participation in this program also enables students to benefit from Oxford’s traditional tutorial pedagogy. In addition, students experience Oxford’s High Table tradition and make frequent visits to leading British firms to experience global business and intercultural exchange in Great Britain. 
• Summer in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: African Studies Program
  • In the Development Challenges in Tanzania internship program, you will study the complexities of current challenges and approaches to community-driven development, while testing and applying new knowledge in a part-time internship with a local community-based organization. The internship will be paired with a seminar consisting of readings, reflection assignments, and weekly discussion meetings, with a GU faculty member and other students to deepen your understanding of how your internship site addresses the challenges of sustainable development.

• Office of Global Education
  • Semester and Year-Long Study Abroad
  • The Office of Global Education offers more than 100 different semester and year-long study abroad opportunities spanning countries all around the world. Browse the catalog to determine which locations and language options may be of interest.
• Direct Matriculation Programs Leading to SFS Language Proficiency
  • Successful completion of one of these semester or year-long (or otherwise specifically noted) direct matriculation study abroad programs will automatically fulfill the BSFS Foreign Language proficiency degree requirement. These classes are conducted in a language native to the country and are the same classes offered to degree seeking candidates at that university. Successful completion means a student has completed the full-time course load designated for the program and passed each course enrolled. Programs are offered to satisfy French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish proficiency.
• All Direct-Enrollment Programs Abroad
  • Direct-enrollment programs allow you to study at a university abroad, taking courses alongside non-Georgetown students and offering the experience of learning from a different country’s higher education system.

SFS

• BSFS Summer Awards
  • The BSFS Summer Awards (app link is active between February and mid-April) provides undergraduate students who have secured unpaid/minimum wage or very low-paid professional development experiences with summer funding assistance (unpaid internships, thesis or capstone research, non-GU language training, study abroad, service-learning or volunteering, other academic or professional development opportunities). Award amounts are up to $3000, and funding is limited. All applications will be reviewed by an Undergraduate Dean’s Office selection committee. The committee will be evaluating each student’s application and materials, paying close attention to a student’s ability to demonstrate how this experience adds value to their professional or academic goals. Students are only eligible to be awarded once during their BSFS academic career and cannot be graduating seniors. SFS-Q students: please apply for funding here.
• Mark Adamsson Prize
  • The Mark Adamsson Prize of $5,000 supports a summer-long international project which may take the form of research or an equally rewarding and useful initiative to make the world abetter place. Winners are expected to provide a brief report on their summer’s work by the end of September of their senior year, to be shared with the Dean’s office, past winners of the Prize, and friends and family of Mark Adamsson. The Mark Adamsson Prize honors the memory of Mark Adamsson, an SFS and IPOL 4410 student who passed away unexpectedly in 2015. The prize is typically awarded each year to a member of the SFS Fundamentals of Grand Strategy course (IPOL 4410), but for Spring 2025, this award will be opened to the entire Junior class due to IPOL 4410 not being offered this year. The Spring 2025 application process will be announced soon. For more information, please email the SFS Undergraduate Dean’s Office at bsfsdeans@georgetown.edu.
• Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellows Program
  • The Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellowship is a four-year research apprenticeship program. Five to six first-year School of Foreign Service (SFS) undergraduate students are selected in the spring semester and paired with a faculty mentor to gain hands-on experience as a research assistant working on advanced research methods and projects. By supporting faculty research initiatives, fellows gain the necessary skills to carry-out their own independent research in their junior and senior years.
• Paul F. Pelosi Scholars Initiative (Spring/Summer)
  • The mission of the Paul F. Pelosi Scholars Initiative (PSI) is to provide exceptional SFS sophomores and juniors with the professional skill set, network of practitioners/scholars and hands-on experience to prepare them to serve the public in their post-graduate careers. Students who are selected as Paul F. Pelosi Scholars are guided by a deep commitment to serving others, not simply “steering” public institutions on others’ behalf, and to promoting both effective governance and the wise stewardship of resources for the common good.
• SFS Undergraduate Dean’s Fund (Research)
  • Undergraduate students (BSFS) in the School of Foreign Service (SFS) are eligible to apply for funding support for Georgetown related academic research projects, conferences, and programming related to GU events in support of the SFS mission.

Georgetown University

• 100 Projects for Peace Fellowship
  • Undergraduate students at Georgetown design their own grassroots projects anywhere in the world to promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Applicants are encouraged to use their creativity to design projects that employ innovative techniques for engaging participants in ways that focus on conflict transformation, reconciliation, building understanding and breaking down barriers which cause conflict. The goal of the projects should focus on transforming conflict and sustaining peace.
• David F. Andretta Summer Research Fellowship
  • Through the David F. Andretta, MD, Explorer Fund, a rising senior is awarded $5,000 to conduct research on a social justice research issue anywhere in the world during the summer. The fellowship is awarded annually to a Georgetown University junior who seeks to spend the summer before senior year exploring an aspect of the world through an academic research project. The applicant must find a faculty sponsor who is willing both to critique and recommend the project prior to the application’s filing and to review and approve the project upon its completion.
• Doyle Engagement and Innovation Grants
  • Students can apply for two different grants sponsored by the Doyle Program. Individual students can apply for a Doyle Engagement Grant to support conference attendance or research projects. Campus organizations can receive funding for events through a Doyle Innovation Grant. 
  • Doyle Engagement Grants: Students seeking support for conference attendance or research projects at the intersection of religion, global affairs, and engaging difference can apply for a Doyle Engagement Grant. 
  • Doyle Innovation Grants: Campus organizations seeking to host an event featuring religion and engaging difference can apply for a Doyle Innovation Grant. Any recognized campus organization on the Main Campus or in the Law or Medical Centers can apply. 
• Education & Social Justice Summer Research Fellowship
  • Undergraduate student research fellows spend three weeks of summer conducting interviews on best practices at the intersection of education and social justice. Local hosts are Jesuit-led institutions doing innovative educational work in support of under-resourced communities. During the preceding spring, fellows are supported in their submission of an IRB application, train in interview techniques, and prepare for field-based research in their specific sites. During three weeks of summer fieldwork, fellows conduct between 12-20 interviews. In the fall semester, after completing data collection, fellows create an online report of their findings. They present their research in a public forum and their final reports are digitally published.
• Georgetown Undergraduate Scholarships (need-based)
  • Each year Georgetown University awards several hundred need-based scholarships to eligible undergraduates. Individual awards range in value from $1,000 to more than $60,000 per year, depending on the student’s financial need. In addition to small loan and work-study awards, these scholarships meet 100% of eligible undergraduates’ demonstrated financial need.
• GU Center for Research and Fellowships
  • The Center for Research and Fellowships (CRF) offers several independent international opportunities, through which students complete research projects domestically or abroad, mostly during summer.
• gui2de Student Experiences
  • gui2de engages students in rigorous research, analysis and evaluation during term time as research assistants, as well as outside of term time in the field. Students involved in fieldwork undertake a variety of different tasks from troubleshooting issues between the office and the field, designing surveys, training enumerators, providing logistical support to field teams, and working with local partners to implement our projects. 
• The Lisa J. Raines Fellowship (research)
  • The Lisa J. Raines Fellowship funds undergraduate students to conduct independent summer research projects in any discipline. Fellows meet weekly with program colleagues and advisors for a one-hour seminar to – for example – meet with faculty experts, discuss research generally, and give updates on their own work. Each year, the Raines Fellowship organizes around a theme.
• SIPS (Georgetown Social Innovation & Public Service Fund)
  • The SIPS Fund is a commitment by Georgetown University to invest in innovative ventures that have a social impact and serve the public good. It is housed in the Center for Social Justice. Inspired by the Jesuit tradition of service for and with others, SIPS allocates approximately $60,000 in award money every year to support students and alumni developing their own social ventures.

External

• Circumnavigators Fellowship (SFS only)
  • The Raymond Dinsmore Fellowship by the Circumnavigators Foundation is for a student to undertake a round-the-world research project during the summer. For more information on this fellowship, look for announcements in The Globe. Info sessions generally take place in early fall (September) and proposals are generally due in mid-October. 
• Critical Language Scholarship
  • The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program partners with universities and nonprofits around the globe to provide cohorts of U.S. students an opportunity to study the language and culture in a country/location where the target language is commonly spoken. 
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy: Young Leaders in Foreign and Security Policy (SFS only, summer)
  • GCSP’s Global Fellowship Initiative brings together multi-disciplinary, multicultural and multi-generational experts and practitioners that seek to develop sustainable solutions for a more peaceful future. Young Leaders participate in a 3-month residency at the GCSP, assist with GSCP projects, and explore diverse opportunities in the heart of international Geneva.