May 4, 2022 – The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is pleased to announce that nearly 3,000 U.S. undergraduate students have been selected
to receive Gilman Program awards from the March 2022 application deadline. Despite the ongoing pandemic, as travel and study abroad have opened, we are pleased to announce a higher selection number this award cycle. The recipients of this prestigious scholarship are American undergraduate students attending 536 U.S. colleges and represent 49 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These Gilman Scholars will study or intern in 91 countries through April 2023. This group includes 20 recipients of the John McCain International Scholarship for the Children of Military Families (Gilman-McCain Scholarship), as well as Gilman Scholars supported by the governments of France, Israel, New Zealand, and Wales, and the LusoAmerican Development Foundation (FLAD) in Portugal, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).