The Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students at Columbia Global collaborates with participating schools to offer full tuition coverage and support for non-tuition expenses to accepted students. This assistance extends for the duration required to complete their degree. Recipients of the scholarship are required to be full-time students attending classes in person.
Scholarship Benefits
Full tuition, plus student’s housing and living expenses, for the number of terms necessary to complete the student’s Master's degree.
Eligibility
This scholarship program is for foreign nationals who meet any of the following criteria:
- You have refugee status (living anywhere in the world)
- You have received asylum in the United States or submitted a U.S. asylum application
- You are in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status
- You are an internally displaced person
- You are an Afghan national in the U.S. on humanitarian parole or with a special immigrant visa
- You are a Ukrainian national in the U.S. on parole
Note:
- U.S. citizens and permanent residents (i.e., green card holders) are not eligible for this scholarship.
- There are no age restrictions for applying to this scholarship.
- Scholarship applicants must be accepted to a participating degree program to be eligible for this scholarship.
- Recipients of the scholarship must be prepared to enroll as full-time, in-person students.
Application Process
- Applicants must apply to and be accepted to one of the degree programs found on the CUSDS website. Each school and program maintain their own acceptance requirements and specific application deadlines.
- This is a competitive scholarship and students may be accepted to Columbia and not receive funding through the scholarship. Acceptance to an academic program does not guarantee funding, through the scholarship or otherwise.
- Degree program application fees can be waived in extraordinary cases by e-mailing CUSDS@columbia.edu at least two weeks before you plan to submit your application.
- Applicants must complete the scholarship application form, no later than the deadline for the application for their degree program.