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Non-U.S. Citizen Applicants

Application procedures for Fulbright grants to study or teach in the United States vary from country to country. Fulbright Commissions or the American Embassies administer the program, with the assistance of local educational authorities and institutions.

To learn more about the program or to begin the application process, contact the Fulbright Commission in your country. If there is no commission in your country, contact the American embassy.

There are three types of Fulbright grants: Students, Scholars and Professionals, and Teachers and Administrators.

Fulbright Foreign Student Programs

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program offers fellowships to foreign graduate students for study and research abroad. In academic year 2005-2005, approximately 1,000 new awards were awarded to foreign graduate students for support at U.S. universities, and some 1,100 renewal awards were made. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is administered by the following cooperating agencies:

• Institute of International Education (IIE): administers the Fulbright Foreign Student for Africa, Eurasia, Europe, East Asia and Pacific, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East and the Western Hemisphere. Please see www.iie.org/FulbrightTemplate.cfm?Section=Foreign_Student_Program for more information.
  
• America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST): administers the Fulbright Foreign Student Program for Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen. Please see
  www.amideast.org/programs_services/exchange_programs/fulbright/default.htm for more information.
  
• LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas: administers the Fulbright Foreign Student Program (faculty development and the Fulbright-OAS Ecology Initiative) for the Western Hemisphere. Please see www.laspau.harvard.edu/progeng.htm for more information.

The Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA) provides young teachers of English as a Foreign Language the opportunity to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American cultures and customs while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at colleges and universities within the United States. The FLTA Program is administered by IIE. Please see www.iie.org/flta for more information.

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Fulbright Scholar Programs

The Visiting Scholar Program awards grants to foreign scholars to lecture and/or conduct postdoctoral research at U.S. institutions for an academic year or term. More than 700 scholars come to the United States each year under this program. The Visiting Scholar Program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Please see www.cies.org for more information.

The Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World, a pilot component of the Visiting Scholar Program, awards short-term grants for three-to-six weeks to Fulbright Program alumni and other scholars from the Middle East, South Asia and selected countries in East Asia, Africa, and Europe to help U.S. higher education institutions and communities enrich their understanding of Islamic civilization and culture, and social, political and economic developments in the Muslim world. Fulbright Visiting Specialists, who are matched with U.S. applicant institutions, lecture or teach short courses, assist with program and curriculum development, interact with students and participate in public outreach programs with community groups, local school, and civic organizations. The Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program is administered by CIES. Please see www.cies.org/vs_scholars/ for more information.

The New Century Scholars Program is a forum for international, interdisciplinary collaboration among the world's outstanding research scholars and professionals. Annually, the Fulbright Program assembles approximately 30 leading minds to collaborate on issues of global significance. The research focus for academic year 2004-2005, "Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response," will encourage comparative work that examines the central role of institutions of higher education in addressing the challenges of the 21st century in such areas as knowledge development, leadership training, and research and analysis to solve problems. The New Century Scholar Program is administered by CIES. Please see www.iie.org/cies/NCS/ for more information.

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Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program

The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program involves one-on-one exchanges of approximately 240 administrators and teachers from K-12 schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions. A small number of one-way assignments are also made. The program operates between the United States and more than 30 countries worldwide. The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program is administered by the USDA Graduate School. Please see www.fulbrightexchanges.org/ for more information.

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