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Please also refer to our Student FAQs page for more information.

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Study Abroad Center Scholarships

  • UHM Study Abroad Center scholarship: available to accepted students of one of the following semester/year programs. Click below for application form.
Adelaide, Australia Shanghai, China Paris, France Two Italies Machida, Japan
Sydney, Australia London, England Florence, Italy Kōbe, Japan Seville, Spain
  • ASUH Study Abroad Scholarship: available to full-time, undergraduate, classified students at UH-Mānoa. Visit ASUH website for details.
  • Kōnan University Consortium Scholarship: available to students who have been accepted to study for a spring semester or academic year in Kōbe to the Kōbe Year-In-Japan Program. No application form is required.
  • Yoshihiro & Tamah Nakamura Memorial Scholarship: available to students who have been accepted to study for a spring semester or academic year in Kōbe or Machida, Japan. Must be a graduate of a Hawai‘i high school.

Please note that the list of scholarships below is subject to availability and may change without notice. 

University of Hawai‘i System Scholarships

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Scholarships

Updated Oct. 4, 2022

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External organizations

Please note that the UHM Study Abroad Center is not affiliated with any of the organizations listed below.

Updated Feb. 7, 2022

Financial Aid is available through the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Financial Aid Services to UHM students only.

Students are required to have submitted a FAFSA for the academic year in which they plan to study abroad. Students must be enrolled with full-time status in order to receive aid. See chart below for minimum full-time enrollment status.

Semester Summer
Undergraduate 12 cr. 6 cr.
Graduate 8 cr. 4 cr.

Attention!

Starting Fall 2021, UH Mānoa will begin enforcing Course Program of Study (CPoS), which is a process to keep in compliance with federal regulations on financial aid. This means that financial aid can only be awarded to courses required for a student’s degree program. Study abroad programs do not fall under this requirement, but certain conditions do apply in order to receive aid. Below is a quote from the Federal Student Aid Handbook (2020-2021) regarding study abroad programs:

“The study-abroad program does not have to be a required part of the eligible program at the home school for the student to be eligible to receive FSA funds, but the credits earned through the study-abroad or exchange program must apply toward graduation in the student’s program at the home school. In addition, students in the study-abroad program must remain concurrently enrolled at their home school.”

For application and more information please visit Financial Aid Services and check their lists of scholarships.

Tel: (808) 956-7251
Fax: (808) 956-3985
Email: finaid@hawaii.edu

Studying abroad is not as expensive as you might think.

Here’s a comparison of the cost of attendance at UH Mānoa and for studying abroad.

And here are “Some (Not-So-Secret) Secrets to Securing Scholarships for Studying Abroad”!

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