The 2025-2026 application is now closed. The 2026-2027 competition will open in Spring 2025.

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Current U.S. Student

United States citizens who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs are eligible to apply.If you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a U.S. college or university, you will apply through that institution, even if you are not currently a resident there. Find the Fulbright Program Adviser on your campus.

U.S. Citizen but not a Student

If you are a U.S. citizen, will hold a bachelor’s degree by the award start date, and do not have a Ph.D. degree, then you are eligible to apply. Non-enrolled applicants should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Candidates with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program.

The Getting Started page will provide information on eligibility and next steps.

Artist

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program welcomes applications in the creative and performing arts. Arts candidates for the U.S. Student Program should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Artists with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Creative & Performing Arts projects fall under the Study/Research grant category and are available in all countries where Study/Research grants are offered.

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U.S. Professor/Administrator

If you are a U.S. citizen and a professor or administrator at a U.S. institution and are interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award, you will need to apply through fulbrightscholars.org.

To support your students in applying for a U.S. Student Program award, please connect with the Fulbright Program Adviser at your institution.

Non U.S. Citizens

If you are a non-U.S. citizen interested in applying for a Fulbright Award to the United States, you will need to apply through the Fulbright Commission or U.S. Embassy in your home country. Find out more information on the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program or Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

2024 Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors

Purpose

In 2008, this program was established to identify and train a group of approximately 20 alumni annually to serve as representatives for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Selection

Each fall, Fulbright Commissions, U.S. Embassies, Fulbright Program Managers, and the Outreach Division come together to recommend alumni for the ambassador program. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs then approves the final selection of Alumni Ambassadors.

About

Alumni Ambassadors come from an array of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, states, fields of study, institutions, and world regions in which their Fulbright experience took place. They play a key role in bringing awareness about Fulbright opportunities and provide testimonials through conferences, presentations, webinars, articles, podcasts, and special initiatives throughout the U.S.

Assisting potential applicants, Alumni Ambassadors share real Fulbright experiences, the challenges of living abroad successfully, and how to meet the Fulbright Program's ultimate goal—to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries.

Please contact us if you are interested in becoming an Alumni Ambassador or would like an Alumni Ambassador to present at an in-person or virtual event.

Jacqueline Aguirre De La O

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
South Korea, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: University of California, Riverside

Esther Almazán

Fulbright U.S. Student in Literature (Playwriting)
Ireland, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Pima Community College; College of Santa Fe; Prescott College; Arizona State University; University of Arizona

Austin Connors

Fulbright U.S. Student in Public Policy
Paraguay, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Duke University

Geghie Davis-Tillie

Fulbright U.S. Student in Design
UK, 2020-2021
U.S. Institutions: Pellissippi State Community College; University of Tennessee

Aida Dodoo

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Madagascar, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Salisbury University

Juan Gonzalez

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Argentina, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: San Joaquin Delta College; California State University, Long Beach

Carlo Juntilla

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Taiwan, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: Gonzaga University; Loyola Marymount University

Rachael Lau

Fulbright U.S. Student in Earthquake and Disaster Engineering
Nepal, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Duke University

Savanna Lim

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Turkey, 2021-2022
U.S. Institution: Cornell University

Virgil Parker

Fulbright U.S. Student in Economic Trade and Social Impact
Canada, 2021-2022
U.S. Institution: Howard University

Amanda Pascali

Fulbright U.S. Student in the Arts
Italy, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: University of Houston

Sylvia Pere

Fulbright U.S. Student in Biology
Kenya, 2022-23
U.S. Institutions: Citrus Community College; Mt. San Antonio College; University of California, Berkeley

Ksenia Polyarskaya

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Kazakhstan, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Jesse Rocha

Fulbright U.S. Student in the History of Art
Brazil, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Riverside

Taliah Rodriquez

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Ghana, 2022-2023
U.S. Institution: Arizona State University

Tremaine Smith

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Sri Lanka, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Brandeis University; Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Alexandra St Tellien

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Côte d'Ivoire, 2021-2022
U.S. Institutions: University of Florida; Georgia State University

Lavinia Taumoepeau-Latu

Fulbright U.S. Student in the Humanities
Tonga, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: University of Utah; Georgetown University

Lyndsie Whitehead

Fulbright U.S. Student in Higher Education
India, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; Howard University

Nimra Zubair

Fulbright English Teaching Assistant
Bulgaria, 2022-2023
U.S. Institutions: Houston Community College; University of Houston