Financial Aid, in the form of a variety of undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, are available to Duke students.  Several offices and departments assist in locating the ideal program for different areas of world study.  Some examples and brief descriptions are listed here.

The Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows administers campus competitions for most of the distinguished postgraduate scholarships for foreign study (Luce, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Truman, and Winston Churchill) .

The Fulbright Program, the US Government's premier scholarship program, is administered through the Duke Center for International Studies, located in the John Hope Franklin Center.   It enables U.S. students, artists and other professionals to benefit from unique resources globally and to gain international competence in an increasingly interdependent world. Contact Dr. Darla Deardorff for more information.

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships are designed to encourage the study or use of foreign languages in combination with international or area studies. Priority will be given to students enrolling in a foreign language course each semester while completing full-time course work. In some cases fellowships are awarded for the use of the advanced foreign language while carrying out overseas research during the academic year. The languages for which fellowships are offered are decided by the centers administering the competitions: the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, and the South Asian Studies Center. .The FLAS competitions are open to graduate and professional school students currently enrolled at Duke. In most cases, native speakers of these languages, even if U.S. citizens or permanent residents, are not eligible for a fellowship in their native language. Application forms and instructions are available online.

Office of Research Support provides information on grant-seeking to novices and established investigators, who can learn here about new sources of funding, internal competitions for Institutionally Limited Opportunities, and new developments affecting the grant-seeking process. In addition they can learn how to use electronic aids in locating research funding, including funding databases, email alert services, the funding resource center, and the funding search tutor. There are time-saving quick links to major research sponsor websites, as well as their grants and forms webpages. There are also helpful tools in your funding search, such as agency-based grant opportunity listings and information about professional societies in research administration and a collection of some of the better proposal writing guides available on the web, including agency and disciplinary specific proposal preparation.

Study Abroad is an increasingly popular option for Duke students who want to expand their educational horizons. Duke University is committed to providing an internationally grounded liberal education that will enable its students to understand the world better, appreciate the international contributions to knowledge, and to cope effectively with an increasingly intercultural environment. Duke strongly encourages its students to study abroad: direct experience of another culture is the best way of communication across barriers of custom, language, geography, and politics. An encounter with different values, educational methods, and with a foreign culture can broaden the student's understanding of the world. To see who is studying abroad and where, please review our statistics.

The Graduate School: Duke has a number of competitive scholarships and fellowships for incoming and advanced graduate students, providing summer and/or year-long funding. This site also outlines standard types of departmental funding through fellowships, endowments, assistantships and instructorships, including important tax information for international students. It contains information about international research opportunities and national, regional and foundation awards as well as links to the office of research support that can help with applying for outside funding sources. 

Through the university’s Hart Leadership Program, Duke seniors and recent alumni may apply to the Hart Fellows Program, which offers recent graduates ten month fellowships with international humanitarian organizations. Fellows conduct Research Service Learning (RSL) projects in collaboration with their host organizations; recent research initiatives include such topics as HIV/AIDS treatment, domestic violence prevention, and community reconstruction in post-war settings.