The Ibn Battuta Merit Scholarships aim to reward students for excellence and dedication to the study of the Arabic language as well as promote the study of Arabic as a foreign language. The Qalam Center offers study abroad programs in Morocco for the fall, summer, and spring semesters. The fall and spring session are 14 weeks long and the summer program is 4 weeks long. Applicants do not have to be university students, but must have at least 240 documented hours of Arabic language study. Five full scholarships and ten partial scholarships are offerred for each session.