Fellowships & Scholarships

Austin College offers a distinctive, individualized advising and mentoring program for students interested in prestigious scholarships and fellowships.

Connections: Our faculty and staff serve as part of the national review boards for a variety of prestigious scholarships and fellowships. Many more are alumni of the same programs. We bring in-depth knowledge to these competitions.

Recruitment: Students are connected with appropriate opportunities throughout their AC careers. We help students find all relevant programs.

Mentoring: Faculty and staff supervise applications through development to final editing to ensure that what’s submitted is as competitive as possible.

Results: Austin College has an astonishing rate of success for an institution our size. In the last five years:

• We have produced more Fulbrights per-capita than any institution in Texas.

• Four Boren Scholarship Winners

• A Barry M. Goldwater Scholar

• A Udall Fellow

• An NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Cameron Behal ‘11

Cameron Behal graduated in 2011 with majors in international relations and Spanish, prior to working in South Korea for two years with the Fulbright Scholarship. Subsequent to Fulbright, Cameron served in the Marine Corps as Scout Sniper Platoon Commander and later Intelligence Officer at 2d Battalion, 6th Marines. He has recently transitioned out of the… [Read More]

Ayelia Ali ’16

It is difficult for me to articulate my experience in Sarawak, Malaysia, and how it impacted my life. As fresh out of college, I knew little to nothing about being an effective educator. Staring at the piece of paper that stated the placement of my school, SMK Lake, in a small town called Bau. I… [Read More]

Cherie Oertel ’09

My identity came a bit unraveled in Spain. It was my first year outside the role of “student”. It was the first time I felt painfully inarticulate and confronted by the kind of striking aloneness that happens when you are a stranger in a new country. I spent an embarrassing amount of time alone, furtively eating… [Read More]

RonAmber Deloney ’03

Becoming a Fulbright scholar handed me the world in a way I had never imagined. Places that I had only known on maps or classroom globes became cities I knew like the back of my hand. My favorite coffee shop was not the Starbucks up the road but a corner café in Southeast Berlin. I… [Read More]

Christiana Bay ’11

Austin College fosters an environment which asks students to push their boundaries in an attempt to be more open-minded, well-rounded and accepting. This ‘beyond the classroom’ type initiative helped mold me to educate, share, learn and grow; eventually leading to one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life: Fulbright Korea. From the lifetime friends… [Read More]

Brittnay Connor ’14

Austin College taught me to think about my community and how I could affect change to make society more equitable. My Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Colombia taught me to think about my global community and the impact I could have on it. Without AC, Fulbright never would have been on my radar. Between my JanTerm in Cuba… [Read More]

Victoria Briscoe O’Connor ’13

My experience as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) was incredibly rewarding, allowed me to continue learning about other cultures, and helped affirm my desire to pursue a career as a mental health therapist. As a student at Austin College, I studied psychology and Spanish. I went on JanTerms to Argentina and Spain, and took… [Read More]

Phyllis Goode ’16

Phyllis Goode graduated in 2016 with majors in International Relations and EALC-Chinese. While a student at AC, Phyllis was the recipient of a GO Fellowship to do research in Taiwan on Sirayan cultural preservation efforts and a Sumner Foundation Scholarship for her work in political science. She spent the 2014-2015 school year abroad in China… [Read More]

Shelby Turner ’15

Shelby Turner graduated in 2015 with a double major in Japanese and Chinese. She spent her senior year engaged in an honors project, a translation of Taiwanese author Zhu Tianwen’s short story, “Little Bi’s Story,” which she is currently revising for publication. Shelby is currently living in Tokyo as a participant in the JET program.

Brittany Subialdea ’17

Brittany Subialdea graduated in 2017 with a double major in EALC-Japanese and Computer Science. She studied abroad in Japan in Spring 2016, supported by the prestigious Boren Scholarship. Brittany is currently in a Ph.D. program in computer science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

What Can We Help You With?

Gilman Scholarship

Boren Scholarship

Critical Language Scholarship

The Bridging Scholarship

Global Ambassador Scholarship

The Taiwan US Sister Alliance (TUSA) Global Ambassador Scholarship

The Taiwan-United States Sister Relations Alliance (TUSA) Summer Scholarship Program is an Ambassador program. A unique program especially designed for students who will be representing their state as well as the United States, acting as ambassadors to Taiwan. This is a unique program to college/university undergraduate/graduate students who are interested in studying Mandarin (Chinese) language and learning about Taiwanese culture. Read more ...

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Marshall/Rhodes/Gates Cambridge Scholarships

These three scholarships fully pay for graduate study at a wide range of universities in the United Kingdom. The application deadline is typically in early October. Students submit their application at the beginning of their senior year but are strongly advised to start working on the process during the spring of their junior year. Students who wish to apply need to be internally nominated and supported by Austin College and may not apply independently.

Each spring (typically April) there will be an informational meeting for which all students (rising sophomores, juniors and seniors) with a GPA of 3.7 or higher will receive an email invitation. Students with a lower GPA are welcome to express interest but must realize that these scholarships are very competitive.

Marshall Scholarship: Fully funds a two/one year graduate degree at any British university for intellectually superior students with strong leadership potential and an interest in the US-UK relationship.

Rhodes Scholarship: Fully funds a graduate degree at the University of Oxford in the UK, typically for two years. Students must demonstrate strong scholarly potential, exhibit high moral character, strong leadership potential and a sense of public duty.

Gates Cambridge Scholarship: Fully funds a graduate degree at the University of Cambridge in the UK for up to three years. Potential to become a future leader in one’s field and a desire to address global challenges and improve the lives of others are essential.

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Goldwater Scholarship

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was established by Congress in 1986 to honor the lifetime work of Senator Barry Goldwater, who served his country for 56 years as a soldier and statesman, including 30 years in the U.S. Senate. The Goldwater Foundation provides scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Read more ...

Udall Scholarship

AmeriCorps Vista

Truman Scholarship

National Science Foundation Fellowship

JET Program

Links of Interest

Award Winner Profiles

2019 Fulbright Semi-Finalist Julian Coronado, CLS Finalist Victoria Gilbert, Fulbright Semi-Finalist Sarah Smith and Fulbright Finalist Tianna Anderson. Audrey Rose is not pictured.

Victoria Gilbert ’21, Critical Language Scholarship recipient to Soochow University in Suzhou, China.

Award News

Students Awarded Prestigious Scholarships April 2018
Fulbright Recipients: A Closer Look November 2016
Prestigious Scholarships Create Global Ambassadors June 2015
Students Win Prestigious Awards June 2014