Finlandia Foundation National
Friday, September 03, 2010
is the most important private source of support for Finnish culture in the United States.

Scholarships

Scholarships

 

The Finlandia Foundation National Student Scholarships Program was established in the late 1950s with awards to students attending prestigious music institutions including The Juilliard School and the Sibelius Academy of Music. Other awards include the P.J.C. Lindfors Legal Scholarship.

Today’s scholarships are available for currently enrolled full-time undergraduate and graduate students of all academic disciplines enrolled in accredited post-secondary schools in the United States and Finland. Candidates must have evidence of continuing to the sophomore level or higher prior to receiving the award and must have maintained a 3.0 GPA. Some of the criteria the FFN Scholarship Committee uses in evaluating applications are: financial need, course of study, and U.S./Finnish citizenship. Students studying subjects related to Finnish culture receive special consideration.

Scholarship applications are evaluated in the spring and are awarded for the following fall/spring term. Students will not be funded for two consecutive years but may reapply after an unfunded year.

The application may be completed and submitted online. The required documents including all college/university transcripts and two letters of recommendation on letterhead with one by a college/university professor must be postmarked by the February 1 deadline. The number of scholarships granted is determined by the funds available in any given year.

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The 2011 scholarship application will be available late summer 2010.