<p>Brown ranks third for most Fulbright grants</p>
<p>BROWN UNIVERSITY was awarded the third most Fulbright grants for overseas education in the county, behind the University of Michigan and Harvard University. By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer
Twitter: @keisterpbn</p>
<p>Posted 10/30/12
PROVIDENCE Brown University is third among schools awarded Fulbright grants from the State Department for overseas education, according to the Associated Press. </p>
<p>Providences Ivy League school has 29 Fulbright recipients for the 2012-2013 academic year, placing behind the University of Michigan, with 40 recipients, and Harvard University with 31 recipients. </p>
<p>The University of Michigan has placed first on the list of U.S. schools with Fulbright recipients six of the last eight years. </p>
<p>Brown Universitys Fulbright winners for the year will go to 22 countries including Senegal, Brazil, Spain, Macau, and Bangladesh for English Teaching Assistantship awards and research grants. </p>
<p>The Fulbright Program, established by Congress in 1946, is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. The program supports recent college graduates and graduate students to conduct research, pursue graduate study and teach abroad and to bring international students to the United States. </p>
<p>Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2012-13
Research institutions Number of applications Number of awards
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 141 40
Harvard U. 132 31
Brown U. 85 29
U. of Chicago 102 24
U. of California at Berkeley 97 23
Yale U. 98 23
Arizona State U. 58 23
Columbia U. 79 22
Northwestern U. 101 22
U. of Texas at Austin 77 22
Rutgers U. 111 21
U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 68 19
Boston College 64 18
Michigan State U. 63 17
Stanford U. 74 15
U. of Pittsburgh 54 15
U. of California at Los Angeles 53 15
American U. 48 14
Duke U. 36 14
Georgetown U. 61 14
U. of Maryland at College Park 48 14
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 61 14
U. of Wisconsin at Madison 53 14
Washington U. in St. Louis 62 14
U. of Georgia 68 13
Florida State U. 51 12
George Washington U. 54 12
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 55 12
Cornell U. 54 11
Emory U. 52 11
Princeton U. 67 11
U. of Florida 61 11
U. of South Carolina at Columbia 28 11
College of William and Mary 47 10
Johns Hopkins U. 79 10
Ohio State U. 44 10
Pennsylvania State U. at University Park 56 10
Syracuse U. 38 10
U. of Southern California 68 10
U. of Nebraska at Lincoln 27 9</p>
<p>Master’s institutions Number of applications Number of awards
Nazareth College of Rochester 17 6
Saint Edward’s U. 21 6
U. of Portland 28 6
Hunter College, City U. of New York 13 5
Monterey Institute of International Studies 20 5
Rollins College 14 5
Saint Joseph’s U. 13 5
Villanova U. 28 5
Pacific Lutheran U. 21 4
Seattle U. 19 4
U. of Scranton 10 4
Drake U. 10 3
Elon U. 15 3
Fairfield U. 6 3
Gonzaga U. 4 3
Middle Tennessee State U. 13 3
U. of Redlands 15 3 </p>
<p>Bachelor’s institutions Number of applications Number of awards
Pitzer College 68 19
Scripps College 41 14
Pomona College 59 14
Smith College 42 14
Grinnell College 55 13
College of the Holy Cross 55 11
Oberlin College 48 11
Williams College 54 10
Swarthmore College 41 10
Claremont McKenna College 34 9
Connecticut College 19 9
Hamilton College 16 9
Kenyon College 30 9
Saint Olaf College 36 9
Vassar College 41 9
Wheaton College (Mass.) 23 9
Amherst College 37 8
Lewis and Clark College 20 8
Middlebury College 24 8
Occidental College 36 7
Bryn Mawr College 20 6
Carleton College 44 6
Wellesley College 31 6
Bates College 29 6
Whitman College 19 6
Barnard College 18 5
Colby College 17 5
Mount Holyoke College 25 5
Spelman College 25 5
Agnes Scott College 13 4
Coe College 11 4
Colgate U. 27 4
DePauw U. 21 4
Earlham College 13 4
Knox College 17 4
Macalester College 17 4
Trinity College 31 4
Wesleyan U. 25 4
Specialized institutions Number of applications Number of awards
Maryland Institute College of Art 16 2
Princeton Theological Seminary 2 2
Colburn School 2 2
Cranbrook Academy of Art 9 2
California College of the Arts 3 1
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 3 1
Juilliard School 3 1
Massachusetts College of Art and Design 5 1
New England Conservatory of Music 4 1
Rhode Island School of Design 11 1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 16 1
U. of California at San Francisco 1 1
William Mitchell College of Law 1 1</p>
<p>Interesting to see how well the LACs do with Fullbrights. Adjusted for the size of the student body they outperform the research universities, in some cases dramatically.</p>