Alumni/ae Opportunities

Want to go back?
Students who have attended our Bard Abroad in Berlin program tend to fall in love with Germany and Europe. Below is a growing list of opportunities for our alumni/ae.

German Exchange and Fellowship Programs

  • German Academic Exchange Service
    The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) helps facilitate exchange to and from Germany. The service coordinates its own programs, and providing resources for finding a graduate program in Germany and navigating the German university system. It also hosts a scholarship search engine that aggregates scholarships sponsored by DAAD, external organizations, and governments.
    About DAAD
  • The German Chancellor Fellowship
    Sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation, this fellowship is for university graduates from the United States, Russia, China, Brazil, and India with an interest in international issues and demonstrated leadership potential. Fellows are recruited from a broad range of areas such as politics and public policy, law, media, business, the nongovernmental and nonprofit sector, and the arts.
    About the Chancellor Fellowship

Other International Opportunities

  • Fulbright Program
    The Fulbright US Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think.
    us.fulbrightonline.org
  • Peace Corps
    As the preeminent international service organization of the United States, the Peace Corps sends Americans abroad to tackle the most pressing needs of people around the world. Peace Corps volunteers work at the grassroots level toward sustainable change that lives on long after their service—at the same time becoming global citizens and serving their country.
    peacecorps.gov
Alumni/ae Spotlight

Alumni/ae Spotlight

Grant Venable, Bard College , Fall 2022
"As a first semester junior, I had the opportunity to study abroad through the Bard Abroad program in Berlin, Germany. With assistance from the Benjamin A. Gilman international scholarship program, I took my studies as a Theatre & Performance major to Bard College Berlin in Pankow and worked as an intern for TATWERK, a performance art theater in the heart of Kreuzberg.