NSLI-Y alumni have reported significant success in their academic, professional, and community service pursuits post-program.
Alumni have reported attending a variety of U.S. universities including:
- Case Western Reserve University
- College of Charleston
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Emory University
- Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Tech
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Macalester College
- Princeton University
- New York University (including Abu Dhabi and Shanghai campuses)
- Stanford University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University
- U.S. Air Force Academy
- U.S. Military Academy at West Point
- U.S. Naval Academy
- University of Arizona
- University of Chicago
- University of Kansas
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portland
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Utah
- Virginia Military Institute
- Vassar College
- Western Kentucky University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University
NSLI-Y Alumni have received a variety of scholarships and fellowships including:
- American Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship
- David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad Scholarship
- Coca Cola Foundation Scholarship
- Critical Language Scholarship
- Gates Millennium Scholars Program
- GE-Ronald Reagan Foundation Scholarship
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
- Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship
- Fund for Education Abroad Scholarship
- U.S. Student Fulbright Scholarship & Teaching Assistantship
- U.S. Senate Youth Scholarship
- Project GO Scholarship
- Posse Foundation Scholarship
- Ron Brown Scholarship
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
- Charles Rangel Fellowship Summer Enrichment Scholarship and Graduate Fellowship
- Thomas L. Pickering Fellowship
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Hopkins-Nanjing Center U.S.-China Exchange Scholarship
Alumni reported employment, internships, and/or service at locations including the following:
- Accenture
- Amazon
- American Enterprise Institute
- Asia Foundation
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Council on Foreign Relations
- City Year (various locations)
- Deloitte
- Exxon Mobil
- Foreign Policy Magazine
- George W. Bush Institute
- General Electric
- HSBC
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- International Organization for Migration
- Institute of International Education
- Institute for the Study of War
- KPMG
- McKinsey & Company
- NATO
- NBC Universal
- Netflix
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Permanent Mission of the U.S. to the United Nations
- Public, private and charter high schools and universities (various locations)
- PwC
- Oprah Winfrey Network
- Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
- University hospitals (various locations)
- Local and state governments (various locations)
- U.S. Government agencies including:
- Intelligence Community
- Peace Corps
- Smithsonian Institution
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of Defense including:
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- U.S. Air Force
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Middle East Center at Marine Corps University
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- Whirlpool
- World Learning
- Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution
Some of the community service activities NSLI-Y alumni have engaged in include:
- Offering translation services to refugees and recent immigrants in the U.S.
- Teaching NSLI-Y target languages and cultures to elementary and middle school students in the U.S.
- Promoting study abroad and language opportunities to youth typically under-represented in study abroad