Wednesday, March 2
4-5pm in CLA 1.106
&
Friday, April 8
4-5pm in CLA 1.106
Fulbright awards graduating seniors, recent graduates and alumni to travel for academic work in all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts. A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.
If your students aren’t quite ready, the competition happens every year, and we’d like to put the Fulbright Program in exceptional students’ minds as a goal to strive for after graduation! Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu
The Fine Print:
The 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on March 31, 2016. The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2017) and alumni who hold a bachelor’s degree. The program is restricted to U.S. citizens. The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries. Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts. A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.
Information sessions and Q & A for prospective applicants will be held Wednesday, March 2 and Friday April 8 in CLA 1.106.
Deadlines and Procedures:
1. The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website
(http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting March 31, to begin the online application process.
2. The applicant should also review our campus website:
http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright
3. Potential applicants should register with us by beginning an application in the Embark Application System.
4. Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit a preliminary application through the Embark Online Application system by 5 PM on September 8, 2016. Interviews with the Fulbright Campus Committee are tentatively scheduled between September 19 and September 30.
5. National Deadline: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 4pm Central time.
For the most recent statistical year (2014-15), UT Austin was ranked as a Top Producing School, with 13 of our 57 applicants receiving the award. As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to our students as well.
Best,
Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.
University Extension | Continuing Education
Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee