Fulbright Grants by School, 2022-23

Top 10 Baccalaureate Institutions

1 Bowdoin: 19
2 Washington and Lee: 15
3 Oberlin: 13
3 Pitzer: 13
5 Bates: 12
6 Barnard: 11
6 Kenyon: 11
6 Williams: 11
9 Hamilton: 10
9 Macalester: 10
9 Swarthmore: 10

Top 10 Doctoral Institutions

1 Georgetown: 49
2 Princeton: 36
3 Brown: 30
4 Harvard: 29
4 Yale: 29
6 Notre Dame: 28
7 Columbia: 26
7 Duke: 26
9 NYU: 25
9 Penn: 25

See link below for the full lists:

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Fascinating. Also interesting to compare success rates between schools. There are schools that have a relatively low number of applications that nonetheless get a high % approved.

Lots of ways to parse the data.

Edited to Add: Would have loved to be able to see specific programs applied to and application success rate. I’m pretty sure some programs way more competitive than others.

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Here was Brown’s press release which offers some recent institutional historic context…

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As another example, if the number of grants were considered in relation to student population, Pitzer would place first in any category.

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Because I like to see some of the not-so-common names (ie. not-so-common on CC) that were making the list, here are some of the ones that caught my attention, sorted by university classification.

Baccalaureate Institutions (By my eyeballing, most of the Top X liberal arts colleges seemed to have about a 20-25% award rate)

  • College of Saint Benedict (MN): 8 awarded, 19 applied
  • Kalamazoo (MI): 4 awarded, 19 applied
  • Hope (MI): 3 awarded, 5 applied
  • Linfield (OR): 3 awarded, 5 applied
  • U. of Mary Washington (VA): 3 awarded, 14 applied
  • Concordia at Moorhead (MN): 2 awarded, 4 applied
  • Hanover (IN): 2 awarded, 6 applied
  • Luther (IA): 2 awarded, 7 applied
  • Southwestern (TX): 2 awarded, 3 applied
  • Spelman (GA): 2 awarded, 5 applied
  • Transylvania (KY): 2 awarded, 2 applied (100% rate)
  • U. of Minnesota - Morris: 2 awarded, 8 applied
  • Westmont (CA): 2 awarded, 6 applied

These baccaulaureate colleges had 1 awarded of 1 applied, so 100% award rate:

  • Bard College at Simon’s Rock (MA)
  • Bethany (WV)
  • Carroll (MT)
  • Central (IA)
  • Goshen (IN)
  • Marymount Manhattan (NY)
  • Millikin (IL)
  • Saint Anselm (NH)
  • Taylor (IN)

Master’s Institutions

  • Salisbury (MD): 9 awarded, 19 applied
  • CUNY Hunter (NY): 6 awarded, 27 applied
  • Florida Southern: 6 awarded, 11 applied
  • SUNY Geneseo: 5 awarded, 13 applied
  • U. of North Georgia: 5 awarded, 22 applied
  • Western Washington: 5 awarded, 18 applied
  • Murray State (KY): 4 awarded, 7 applied
  • Saint Joseph’s (PA ): 4 awarded, 14 applied
  • Towson (MD): 4 awarded, 11 applied
  • CUNY Baruch (NY): 3 awarded, 5 applied
  • Lebanon Valley (PA ): 3 awarded, 7 applied
  • U. of Wisconsin - Eau Claire: 3 awarded, 6 applied
  • Baldwin Wallace (OH): 2 awarded, 3 applied
  • CUNY Queens: 2 awarded, 3 applied
  • Northern Michigan: 2 awarded, 3 applied
  • U. of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 2 awarded, 2 applied, 100% rate

Doctoral Institutions

  • Rutgers-New Brunswick (NJ): 19 awarded, 75 applied
  • U. of Iowa: 17 awarded, 48 applied
  • Temple (PA ): 16 awarded, 45 applied
  • James Madison (VA): 11 awarded, 33 applied
  • U. of Houston (TX): 10 awarded, 37 applied
  • U. of South Florida: 10 awarded, 53 applied
  • Elon (NC): 9 awarded, 19 applied
  • Michigan State: 9 awarded, 35 applied
  • U. of Louisville (KY): 9 awarded, 33 applied
  • Ohio U.: 8 awarded, 30 applied
  • U. of Maryland - Baltimore County: 8 awarded, 35 applied (College Park had 8 awarded, 38 apply)
  • U. of North Texas: 8 awarded, 19 applied
  • Saint Louis U (MO): 7 awarded, 20 applied
  • Texas State: 7 awarded, 22 applied

There were so many universities that I was too tired to list, but each type of institution is linked in its category name (i.e. Baccaulaureate, Master’s, Doctoral). But this goes to show that there are great students at so many schools and that strong students can do well at so many lesser-known schools. Thanks so much for sharing the link @apple23!

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Top-Producing College Success Rate
Hamilton College 45%
University of Puget Sound 43%
College of Saint Benedict 42%
University of Richmond 42%
Bowdoin College 39%
Macalester College 38%
Connecticut College 38%
Lafayette College 36%
Barnard College 35%
Scripps College 33%
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Normally, these sorts of threads annoy me, because they have a predictable trajectory, so thank you @AustenNut for keeping it from being a “battle of the elites” (iteration # 2,582,904) but rather a look at the academic brilliance found at those less popular colleges.

It’s a good

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Yes! Go SU (Md), no 1 MA level!

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