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Home / Student Resources / Scholarships and Grants for Columbia Students / Institute Funding for Students

Institute Funding for Students

Summer Funding For Undergraduate Students

Mitsui Research Fellowship *This fellowship is not available for summer 2020*

Provides up to $5,000 in support for summer academic research in Japan. more

Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Summer FLAS)

Provides partial tuition, health and basic insurance fees, and a stipend of $2,500 for intensive study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean at the third-year level or above, and modern Tibetan at the second-year level or above. Students must apply for the fellowship through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. more

Weatherhead Undergraduate Training Grant

Provides up to $2,500 in support to undergraduate students for summer projects in East Asia that develop academic and/or professional expertise. more

Theodore de Bary Language Study Fellowship

Provides up to $10,000 for intensive summer language study. more

Academic Year Funding for Undergraduate Students

Academic Year Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Academic Year FLAS)

Provides partial tuition and a stipend for intensive study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean at the third-year level or above. Students must apply for the fellowship through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. more


Summer Funding for MA and Professional School Students

Mitsui Research Fellowship *This fellowship is not available for summer 2020*

Provides up to $5,000 in support for summer academic research in Japan. more

Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF Summer Grant)

Provides partial support, travel and/or cost of living to graduate students to conduct summer research or to serve in an internship in East or Southeast Asia. more

Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Summer FLAS)

Provides tuition, health and basic insurance fees, and a stipend of $2,500 for intensive study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean at the third-year level or above, and modern Tibetan at the second year level or above. Students must apply for the fellowship through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. more

Weatherhead M.A. Training Grant

Provides up to $3,000 in support of research or internships in East Asia. more

Academic Year Funding for MA and Professional School Students

Academic Year Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Academic Year FLAS)

Provides tuition, health and basic insurance fees, and a stipend of $15,000 or more for intensive study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean at the third-year level or above. Students must apply for the fellowship through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. more

Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) & Center for Korean Research (CKR) Fellowship

Provides partial to full academic year support to MA students in Regional Studies: East Asia (MARSEA), East Asian Languages and Cultures, and International and World History with a Korea-related focus. more


Summer Funding for PhD Students

GSAS-WEAI Funding Policy 

To better serve the needs of students the WEAI is restructuring its commitment to summer research and language enhancement for PhD students of East Asia in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has instituted a new policy whereby all new and continuing PhD students will receive a total of 5 years of summer funding. All students should be made aware that they must apply to their home department in order to receive the GSAS summer stipend.  WEAI will supplement GSAS PhD summer stipends per student per summer on a competitive basis.   Students must apply separately to WEAI for supplemental funding each summer in which they are eligible.  Applications for supplemental funding will be judged on the basis of the student’s proposed summer program and will only be available to those students whose plans involve the additional expense of overseas research or participation in a language or other course of study designed to enhance their research skills.

Daniel and Marianne Spiegel Fund Grant *This fellowship is not available for summer 2020*

Provides reimbursement up to $2,000 for doctoral candidates incurring research expenses for social science research related to politics, social change, economic change, or policy in China after 1900. more

Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF Summer Grant)  

Provides partial support, travel and/or cost of living to graduate students to conduct summer research or to serve in an internship in East or Southeast Asia. more

Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Summer FLAS)

Provides tuition, health and basic insurance fees, and a stipend of $2,500 for intensive study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean at the third-year level or above, and modern Tibetan at the second year level or above. more

Weatherhead Ph.D. Training Grant

Provides up to $4,000 to Ph.D. students in support of projects that develop academic expertise that crosses traditional disciplinary, geographic, and temporal boundaries. more

Academic Year Funding for PhD Students

C. Martin Wilbur Fellowship

Provides partial support to advanced doctoral students for dissertation research or write-up. Candidates must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in a social science department or East Asian history, and have a research focus on modern China. more

Julie How Fellowship

Provides partial support to advanced doctoral students for dissertation research or write-up. Candidates must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in a history or social science department, and have a research focus on China. more

Junior Fellowship in Japan Studies

Available for the academic year for students at the write-up stage of their dissertation on modern and contemporary Japan, with priority to history and social science. more

Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Fellowship

Provides partial, academic year support to advanced doctoral students who are completing coursework, pursuing dissertation research, or at the dissertation write-up stage. Priority will be given to students whose research focuses on Southeast Asia and on regional or cross-national issues in East Asia. more

V. K. Wellington Koo Fellowship

Available for the academic year to social science and history doctoral students at the write-up stage of their dissertation, whose research is focused on East Asia. Preference is given to students focusing on modern Chinese history or political science. more

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