The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive federal award from the U.S. Department of Education that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Advanced doctoral students conducting field or archival research in a supported world language may also be eligible.

Fellowships available to support study of Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French*, Irish (Gaelic), German*, Greek (Modern), Haitian Creole, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Russian, Slovak, Spanish*, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more!

* only available for graduate students studying at the advanced level

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