National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)
Fully-funded U.S. State Department scholarship that sends high schoolers to study critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian) through immersive summer or academic-year programs abroad, or through a virtual option.
The application for Virtual NSLI-Y’s Fall 2026 program is now available.
The deadline is June 8, 2026 at 4PM ET.
NSLI-Y is a merit-based scholarship program for American high school students to study critical languages abroad, or online.
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