Special Offers for Summer & Fall 2025 Programs
New Faces, New Places: Win Up to $1,500 to Study Abroad
IFSA wants to help you grow your community and make exciting new connections by studying abroad this summer or fall.
Summer 2025: Win a $500 flight voucher plus $250 to eat out, experience local theatre and music, and soak up more culture. Twenty packages available.
Fall 2025: Win a $1,000 flight voucher plus $500 to eat out, experience local theatre and music, and soak up more culture. Twenty packages available.
How to enter: To be eligible, just start your IFSA application by March 15, 2025, and you’ll be automatically entered to win.
Find your program: Search Summer and Fall 2025 programs or set up a time to talk with our amazing Enrollment Counselors to narrow your search.
$3,500 Grants for HBCU Students at Select Schools
Take career-readiness to the next level with a unique study abroad experience designed for HBCU students. Includes $3,000 off program fees and a $500 flight voucher.
IFSA Biosciences Career Accelerator, London, Fall 2025. Learn more.
IFSA Tech Career Accelerator, Prague, Fall 2025. Learn more.
Open to students at:
- Elizabeth City State University
- Howard University
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- North Carolina Central University
- Spelman College
- Tuskegee University
For more information: Apply now to be part of the Fall 2025 Global Leadership & Career Consortium (GLCC) cohort. Applications are due no later than April 1, 2025.
$750 Bring a Friend Grants: China, England, Scotland, Spain, and New Zealand
Study abroad is even better with a buddy. And when you and a friend go together, you each get a $750 cultural grant after arriving in-country. Use it to maximize your experience, eating out, taking in local theatre, music, and sports, traveling, and more.
Grants apply to these programs, locations, and academic terms:
Summer 2025 Programs
Spain
IFSA Summer in Barcelona. Learn more.
Fall 2025 Programs
England
- IFSA Biosciences Career Accelerator, London. Learn more.
- IFSA Health Sciences Career Accelerator, London. Learn more.
- IFSA Study in London. Learn more.
- IFSA Study in London: Black History & Influence in the UK. Learn more.
- IFSA Study in London: Business and Economics. Learn more.
- IFSA Study in London: Computer Science. Learn more.
China
IFSA Study in Shanghai (also Spring 2026). Learn more.
New Zealand
University of Auckland Partnership. Learn more.
Scotland
University of Edinburgh Partnership. Learn more.
To enter: Start your IFSA application by March 15, 2025. See complete entry rules below.
$1,000 University of Adelaide Grants
See what life is like in a truly livable city, close to the coast. Study at a university highly ranked for AI, electrical engineering, computer science, and the physical sciences. Five awards available. Learn more.
To enter: Start your IFSA application by March 15, 2025. See complete entry rules below.
$500 University of Otago Cultural Grants
Squeeze more from your semester in Dunedin, where Scottish heritage and the South Island’s coastal beauty prevail, with a $500 grant. Receive funds after arrival and use them for dining, travel, music, theatre, and more. Ten awards available. Learn more.
To enter: Start your IFSA application by March 15, 2025. See complete entry rules below.
Terms and Conditions
New Faces, New Places promotional packages will be awarded to students who apply for and commit to an IFSA Summer 2025 and/or Fall 2025 study abroad program.
Upon acceptance into an IFSA program and the signing of your IFSA Student Acceptance Agreement, we’ll send instructions on how to book your flight with our partner provider, ScholarTrip, using the flight voucher. The voucher cannot be disbursed as cash, or in any other form other than a credit voucher through ScholarTrip for payment toward student travel expenses specifically to and from an IFSA program. $250 and $500 cultural experience grants will be distributed via electronic payment to students after beginning their respective programs. Neither the flight voucher nor the cultural experience grant can be transferred to another semester, a non-IFSA program, or individual. See complete rules below.
Entry Rules
- Promotions are open to any eligible student who completes an IFSA application for eligible programs during the promotional period.
- Eligibility for IFSA programs is outlined here and states:
- Your home college or university must be in the U.S. or Canada. You must be an undergraduate student in good academic and disciplinary standing at a two-year or four-year college. Approval from your home institution may be required.
- You must have completed at least one full-time semester of college before participating in a study abroad program.
- IFSA also accepts recent graduates or students seeking graduate degrees, however only undergraduate credit can be earned. Approval from your home institution may be required.
- You must meet the requirements of the host institution such as GPA minimums and language requirements.
- The recipient has consented to their general information being shared as a winner, for example their first name, home institution, and major.
- IFSA promotional offers cannot be combined.
- IFSA reserves the right to withhold prizes for any reason.
- IFSA’s decision on all matters relating to the prizes are final.
- Winners are required to:
- Provide confirmation of their full name, home institution, major of study.
- Complete their application by the posted deadline for their program of choice. Winners are subject to all IFSA policies and procedures surrounding the application process with IFSA and/or the host institution.