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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

The Fulbright U.S. Student Alumni Ambassador Program was established in 2008 to identify, train and engage a select group of approximately 20 Fulbright U.S. Student Program alumni each year to serve as representatives, recruiters and voices for the Fulbright Program. They are selected annually through recommendations from Fulbright Commissions and U.S. Embassy staff, area managers, the Fulbright Student Program Outreach Division and are approved by the sponsor of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors come from an array of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, states, fields of study, institutions; they have participated in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in all world areas.

Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors represent the program's rich diversity and play a key role in increasing knowledge about Fulbright opportunities. They provide testimonials about their Fulbright experiences at conferences and campus presentations and offer application tips in written articles, video and podcast interviews, webinars and at special events throughout the United States. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program relies on the Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors to assist potential applicants, sharing what a Fulbright grant is really like, along with how to address the challenges of living abroad successfully and how best 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.

Each Alumni Ambassador has an email contact. Reach out by finding their emails in the bios below.

If you are interested in inviting an Alumni Ambassador to attend an in-person or virtual event to share about their Fulbright experience, please contact us at fbstudent.ambassadors@iie.org

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 Rodriguez

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