Fulbright results Top 20

Just released.

“The 2018-19 rankings from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs appear in the Chronicle of Higher Education.”

“School name. Number of applicants and awards granted.

Fulbright students
Research institutions

Institution Applicants Awards
Brown U. 106 35
Princeton U. 103 33
Georgetown U. 112 30
U. of Chicago 101 30
U. of Pennsylvania 133 27
Northwestern U. 95 26
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 93 24
U. of Notre Dame 82 24
Rutgers U. at New Brunswick 91 23
New York U. 112 22
Arizona State U. 53 21
Harvard U. 98 19
U. of Tennessee at Knoxville 52 19
Columbia U. 87 18
U. of Wisconsin at Madison 53 18
Stanford U. 63 16
U. of Georgia 43 16
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 73 16
U. of Texas at Austin 57 16
U. of Virginia 77 16
Villanova U. 59 16
Boston College 64 15
Johns Hopkins U. 46 15
U. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 39 15
U. of Washington 66 15
Emory U. 48 14
U. of Nebraska at Lincoln 44 14
U. of Southern California 54 14
Yale U. 68 14
Dartmouth College 41 13
Duke U. 63 13
U. of Massachusetts at Amherst 33 13
U. of California at Davis 35 12
Vanderbilt U. 39 12
U. of California at Berkeley 49 11
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 48 11
U. of Iowa 35 11
U. of Louisville 33 11
U. of Pittsburgh main campus 59 11
George Washington U. 41 10
Indiana U. at Bloomington 51 10
Ohio U. 31 10
Pennsylvania State U. at University Park 37 10
Temple U. 29 10
Tufts U. 44 10”

“Bachelor’s institutions

Institution Applicants Awards
Williams College 65 22
Bowdoin College 37 19
Smith College 31 17
Bates College 60 13
Kenyon College 33 12
Pomona College 74 12
Davidson College 33 10
Hamilton College 25 10
Middlebury College 40 10
Amherst College 49 9
Occidental College 31 9
Swarthmore College 27 9
Carleton College 38 8
Claremont McKenna College 26 8
Dickinson College 20 8
Pitzer College 30 8
Scripps College 23 8
U. of Richmond 23 8
DePauw U. 23 7
Vassar College 31 7
Wheaton College (Mass.) 15 7
Bard College 25 6
Barnard College 19 6
Carthage College 28 6
Franklin & Marshall College 40 6
Grinnell College 22 6
Macalester College 31 6
Mount Holyoke College 15 6
Oberlin College 40 6
St. Olaf College 34 6
Union College (N.Y.) 28 6
Wellesley College 32 6
Centre College 17 5
College of Saint Benedict 24 5
College of the Holy Cross 69 5
Denison U. 21 5
Haverford College 17 5
Lawrence U. 16 5
Reed College 20 5
Wabash College 14 5
Coe College 10 4
Colby College 16 4
Saint Michael’s College 13 4
United States Military Academy 21 4
U. of Puget Sound 8 4
Washington and Lee U. 22 4”

Happy to see some quality Public Unis on the list.

University of Massachusetts/ Amherst tied with Dartmouth and Duke. Good scholarship available at many schools.

Obviously different size schools and levels of selectivity/name recorigntion. Not comparing. Not in any way are they at the same level overall but in pockets there’s good things available to all.

Hope this helps parents and students see real value in many locations. Including the best of the best obviously.

Competition for the Fulbright varies depending on several criteria, including (a) whether one applies for the research grant or the English teaching fellowship and (b) which country one is applying for. The overall lists are interesting, but it’s far from an apples-to-apples comparison.

Only four people competed for three research grant awards for Oman this year – hardly much of a competition. Some countries even had more research grants available than applications (e.g. Egypt and Venezuela). At the other extreme, you have countries like the UK, where only ~6% of applicants were successful.

The university list would be more interesting and useful if it distinguished between undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. How many are seniors as opposed to advanced PhD students doing dissertation research?

For what it’s worth, a thread on this already exists:

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/2126205-fulbright-top-producers-recently-released.html#latest

Ok. Thanks @apple23.
Just got it today. It did break the list down by lac research and masters institutions @warblers. But not within types. Obviously the lac group doesn’t include any grad or PhD candidates. But Good point.

Also I think it’s helpful to have both lists. Not just lacs posted and the actual numbers. The list you presented @apple23 doesn’t highlight ties and says something a bit different. But that’s just my viewpoint. Of course one can click on the link you attached. But think it’s good to see the numbers.

Just saying. It’s not just the number you’d want to look at, but the quality of the institutional support and the person or persons doing the actual app advising and culling down to solid possible candidates. And, different sorts of grants have different actual target requirements. There are multiple levels of vetting. In the end, the foreign country has a vote in who gets acepted

Here is Brown’s press release…

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2019/02/fulbright

Normalized by undergraduate enrollment, LACs predominate among the top ten:

  1. Williams
  2. Bowdoin
  3. Bates
  4. Kenyon
  5. Pomona
  6. Smith
  7. Princeton
  8. Davidson
  9. Hamilton
  10. Brown

(Includes colleges with ten or more recipients.)

An interesting list might breakdown the Fulbright results by percentage of applicants by school who were successful at getting a Fulbright. For example, Arizona State University had an astonishing 39.6% (21 awards out of 53 applicants) of its applicants awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

^^That is another good piece of the puzzle…just a few examples, Bowdoin was 19/37, or 51%, Smith 17/31 for 55%!

This represents the method chosen to differentiate ties in @apple23’s value-added ranking.

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/2126205-fulbright-top-producers-recently-released.html#latest

I too would appreciate a breakdown between number of students awarded a Fulbright to teach English and the number of students awarded research grants. When my professor spouse was in grad school, Fulbright recipients distinguished between awards for substantive research and what they quipped were “Halfbrights” – language instruction grants. It is great to see the breadth of schools whose students are getting awards, but it would be useful to know how many are for funded research vs. language instruction.

At this time, Fulbright administrators appear to observe little distinction among those offered grants as Fulbright Students:

The Fulbright Scholar Program may relate more to this enquiry, but none of the figures in the original post pertain to this distinct award.

I’m referring to the distinction between awards given to undergrad and grad students who get awards to (1) teach English vs. (2) conduct research. Yes, those are all Fulbright student awards, but they are different paths, requirements and expectations. I’d like to know how many are in each “pot” that make up the total number of awards at each institution.

I think you would have to be quite accomplished and exceptional to win either.

This data is available in the Fulbright directory, though not yet for 2018. The 2013-2017 breakdown of the top 10 LACs in @apple23’s list cited above:

Study/Research Grants as Percent of Total Fulbrights

57.1% Swarthmore (16/28)
45.2% Davidson (14/31)
43.2% Smith (35/81)
42.2% Pomona (27/64)
41.9% Middlebury (18/43)
38.0% Occidental (19/50)
36.5% Amherst (19/52)
36.1% Williams (22/61)
26.2% Bowdoin (16/61)
14.9% Bates (11/74)
14.7% Hamilton (5/34)
2.70% Kenyon (1/37)

I think no one is surprised to find Swarthmore at the top of the heap for research grants! That virtually all of Kenyon’s Fulbrights are English teaching grants is somewhat surprising.

The absolute numbers for Smith, Pomona, Williams, Occidental, Amherst and Middlebury exceed those of Swarthmore, however.

@warblersrule : Kenyon College is well known for its English & writing programs–so no surprise there. Would love to see breakdowns for top 10 or 20 national universities.

The Fulbright is as much about cultural exchange as research done. Proactive, not just the fact of being in another land. Both types of grants require some effort in this. And yes, grad students are a little different.