Award
The award generally includes: round-trip transportation, language
or orientation courses, tuition (in some cases), books and research
allowance, maintenance for the academic year, supplemental health
and accident insurance. The length of the award is generally one
year, but the time period may vary.
Application Deadline
2008-2009 US Student Fulbright Competition opened on May 1,
2007.
Students must be nominated by GAAP office which St. John's
applications are due October 3, 2007.
Qualifications
The qualifications include:
- U.S. citizenship
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent before beginning date of
grant
Preference is given to students who mostly received their higher
education in US. The applicant cannot hold a doctoral degree at the
time of application, unless otherwise noted.
Application Process
Enrolled students must obtain application forms or access to online
application from Fulbright Program Advisors on campus. A proposed
study or project plan is required.
History
The Fulbright Scholarship was created by the US Congress in 1946,
after World War II, to foster mutual understanding among nations
through educational and cultural exchanges. Today the Fulbright
program enables students, artists, and other professionals to
benefit from unique resources in every corner of the world.
Fulbright awarded about 6,000 grants in '04, at cost of more than
$250 million, to US students, teachers, professionals and scholars
to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 150
countries, and to their foreign counterparts to engage in similar
acitivties in the US. Fulbright receives its primary source of
founding through an annual appropriation from Congress to the
Department of State. Participating governments and host
institutions in foreign countries, and in the US, also contribute
financially through cost-sharing and indirect support, e.g.,
through salary supplements, tuition waivers, and university
housing.
For more information, please visit the Institue
of International Education.