The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education, compiles the lists, which are organized by Carnegie Classification. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the lists in its online and print editions.
Topping this year’s lists of Research, Master’s, Bachelor’s, and Special-focus 4-year institutions that sent the most Fulbright U.S. Students abroad are Brown University (RI), University of North Georgia and CUNY Hunter College (NY), Bowdoin College (ME), and the California Institute of the Arts. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, State University of New York at New Paltz, and Middlebury College (VT) sent the most Fulbright U.S. Scholars in the Research, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degree categories. Fulbright Students are recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals. Fulbright Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals.
Fourteen U.S. community colleges, one Tribal college, and three special focus four-year institutions also sent Fulbright U.S. Scholars abroad in 2021-2022 and are featured. For a full list of the institutions by category, please visit the Fulbright Top Producing website.
“We congratulate the 2021-2022 Fulbright Top Producing Institutions, and we are especially delighted to celebrate the institutions that achieved this distinction for the first time this year. These institutions reflect the geographic and institutional diversity of higher education in the United States,” said Lee Satterfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. “We are committed to ensuring that all students and scholars are aware of the life-changing opportunities that participation in the Fulbright Program provides and to celebrating the engagement of U.S. campuses and communities with Fulbright. I echo Secretary Blinken’s recent statement about Fulbright’s positive impact on society when he said, ‘The members of the Fulbright community are changemakers. They care deeply about the problems facing our world today […] and through Fulbright, they help strengthen our world from classrooms, villages, universities, and cities across the globe.’”
For over 75 years, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000 participants - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to challenges facing our communities and our world. Over 1,900 diverse U.S. students, artists, and early career professionals in more than 100 different fields of study receive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants annually to study, teach English, and conduct research overseas. In addition, more than 800 U.S. scholars, artists, and professionals from all backgrounds teach or conduct research overseas through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program annually.
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