International Travel Grants for Graduate Students

• This grant is intended for early career graduate students enrolled in terminal M.A. programs or in the very early stages of Ph.D. programs. Students who have passed their Ph.D. comprehensive examinations are not eligible.  

• Applicants may be students from any discipline, department or campus;  

• Must be enrolled in a program leading to a graduate degree at KU; 
• Must have completed at least nine credit hours of graduate coursework at KU by the time of application; and
• Students who will have completed their KU degree program by the semester of the grant are not eligible.  
• Recipients of past International Enhancement travel grants are not eligible. 

Eligible enhancement projects include: 

• Activity must take place in Latin America or Africa.

• Enrollment in language classes not offered at KU, but directly pertaining to your KU degree program. 

• Participation in a directed internship program that will enhance academic/professional credentials. The internship must not be one that is required to fulfill a KU degree component. 

• Attending degree-relevant classes not available on the KU campus nor for credit towards your degree. 

• Attending a month-long workshop or series of workshops overseas related to an area of study at KU. 

 Ineligible enhancement projects include: 

• Conducting research abroad related to a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. 

• Working as a research assistant for a KU professor doing his/her research overseas. 

• Work done after a KU degree will be received. 

• Enrolling in a language course abroad that is offered at KU. 

• Participation in a KU-sponsored overseas study program or course, or one resulting in credits to be applied toward a KU degree. 

• Fulfilling an internship requirement of a degree program. 

• Presenting a paper at an overseas conference. 

• Applicants may be students from any discipline or department;
• Must be enrolled in a program leading to the Ph.D. at KU; and
• Must have completed two years worth of graduate course work, with at least one year at KU, prior to the beginning date of proposed project, and;
• Applicants should not have completed comprehensive exams prior to the research period. 
• Recipients of past Pre-Dissertation travel grants are not eligible.

The application review committee will evaluate:

• Scholarly achievement, validity and feasibility of the proposal;

• Requisite language preparation;

• Faculty support as indicated by letters of reference;

• Impact the activity will have on the dissertation research plan, and;

• Availability of alternate sources of funding.

Priority will be given to activities that will increase the applicant’s competitiveness for extramural international dissertation research grants.