<p>Top 2007-2008 schools, by number of fellowships:</p>
<p>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 37
Yale University 27
Pomona 25
Brown University 25
Northwestern University 24
University of California-Berkeley 23
Cornell University 21
Harvard University 21
University of Chicago 20
Boston College 18
Stanford University 18
University of Wisconsin-Madison 18
Johns Hopkins University 17
University of Pennsylvania 17
Arizona State University at Tempe 16
Smith College 14
Columbia University 13
Princeton University 13
Tufts University 13
Washington University in St. Louis 13
University of California-Los Angeles 12
Wellesley College 11
College of William and Mary 11
Ohio State University 11
University of Arizona 11
University of Texas at Austin 11
Dartmouth College 10
Duke University 10
New York University 10
Vassar College 10
Wesleyan University 10
Whitman College 10
Mount Holyoke College 9
Wheaton College (MA) 9
Emory University 9
Florida State University 9
Ohio University 9
Pennsylvania State University 9
University of Pittsburgh 9
University of Southern California 9
University of Virginia 9
Hamilton College (NY) 8
Kenyon College 8
Pitzer College 8
Saint Olaf College 8
Swarthmore College 8
Indiana University-Bloomington 8
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 8
University of Notre Dame 8
University of Rochester 8
University of Washington 8
Wake Forest University 8</p>
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Pomona College leads the nation in Fulbrights awarded per capita and tops its peer liberal arts colleges in pure numbers with 25 prestigious Fulbright Fellowships awarded to its Class of 2007. The totals were released in todays edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
<p>Is this a list for all recipients, or for faculty, grad students, and undergraduate students together? I seem to remember that Michigan and Chicago had a lot of faculty and grad student recipients (it makes sense that large research U's top this list if that's the case); and I wonder if Pomona's per capita includes professors.</p>
<p>Some schools spend money to help and encourage people to apply and to find the least popular programs in order to get the most grants. I recall reading one school sent a bunch to Germany because it was the easiest to get.</p>
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I recall reading one school sent a bunch to Germany because it was the easiest to get.
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Yes, not all Fulbrights are created equal. Roughly the same number of Fulbright awards are available for Austria and the UK, but the UK receives nearly 10 times as many applications. </p>
<p>There also seems to be a rough correlation between the number of applicants and the number of awardees. Michigan had more awardees than Duke had applicants!</p>
<p>I am confused; there are Fulbright Scholars from LACs which only grant bachelor degrees, yet the only info I can find about requirements and programs on the Fulbright Scholar website all seem to indicate that recipients must have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Could someone with more sophistication than me please clarify? Thanks!</p>
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APPLICANTS MUST:
[ul][<em>]Be U.S. citizens at the time of application. Permanent residents are not eligible.
[li]Hold a B.A. degree or the equivalent before the start of the grant.[/li][</em>]Applicants who have not earned a B.A. degree or the equivalent, but who have extensive professional study and/or experience in fields in which they wish to pursue a project, may be considered.
[<em>]In the creative and performing arts, four years of professional study and/or experience meets the basic eligibility requirement.
[</em>]Be in good health. Grantees will be required to submit a satisfactory Medical Certificate of Health from a physician.
[li]Have sufficient proficiency in the written and spoken language of the host country to communicate with the people and to carry out the proposed study. This is especially important for projects in the social sciences and the humanities.[/li][li]Applicants may hold a J.D. degree at the time of application, but not a doctorate. [/li][li]M.D.s or medical students or the equivalent (e.g, D.D.S, O.D.) who wish to continue medical or hospital training or to obtain practical clinical experience should apply to IIE. However, M.D.s who have completed formal postgraduate training and propose attachment to a hospital or clinic for independent or collaborative research should apply to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.[/ul][/li]
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<p>Not to take away the achievements of the colleges which have many, but I really am glad that someone brought up the effect of the college or university's process and policies. Some schools are very plugged into the requirements for various awards and promote them to their students. They may issue frequent reminders, offer support for applications, and so on. Others leave it entirely to students to find out about the programs and to apply under their own initiative.</p>
<p>My grad program was known for always having a ton of students attending professional conferences as presenters (different kind of award, but useful analogy). It wasn't that students were doing that much more (or better) research than their peers elsewhere, but several factors influenced things. One, the school would give travel grants to anyone who got on the program. Get your proposal accepted, and you were going for free. That was big incentive to submit. Two, faculty encouraged students and worked to make sure joint research projects lent themselves to presenting. Three, the weeks before deadline you could always find your peers working on proposals--it was what everyone was talking about and doing. The department secretary kept a fed ex box open on her desk and she would mail them all to the right address the day before the deadline.</p>
<p>A school can do a lot to encourage applications to prestigious programs. I think it's a great thing that they do so.</p>
<p>I think places like Vassar, Wellesley and Tufts should be commended for the number of students who get Fulbrights as they are pretty small schools and they have just as much or more Fulbrights than places like Duke, Emory, and NYU.</p>
<p>Well, even this list is sort of incomplete as it arbitrarily cuts off the list of national universities at 10 recipients, and there are many schools who have 7,8,9 recipients who are not listed. But congratulations to all the schools and their graduate recipients! Regardless of size:</p>
<p>TOP PRODUCERS OF FULBRIGHT AWARDS FOR U.S. STUDENTS BY TYPE OF INSTITUTION, 2007-8</p>
<p>Research institutions Number of awards Number of applicants
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 37 119
Yale U. 27 109
Brown U. 25 69
Northwestern U. 24 90
U. of California at Berkeley 23 92
Cornell U. 21 73
Harvard U. 21 96
U. of Chicago 20 92
Boston College 18 51
Stanford U. 18 61
U. of Wisconsin at Madison 18 65
Johns Hopkins U. 17 45
U. of Pennsylvania 17 108
Arizona State U. at Tempe 16 45
Columbia U. 13 71
Princeton U. 13 63
Tufts U. 13 38
Washington U. in St. Louis 13 29
U. of California at Los Angeles 12 38
College of William and Mary 11 24
Ohio State U. main campus 11 34
U. of Arizona 11 45
U. of Texas at Austin 11 45
Dartmouth College 10 35
Duke U. 10 32
New York U. 10 57
Masters institutions Number of awards Number of applicants
Fairfield U. 5 27
U. of Portland 5 7
Gallaudet U. 4 7
Pacific Lutheran U. 4 12
California State U. at Long Beach 3 7
Canisius College 3 8
Ithaca College 3 5
Mills College 3 4
Rollins College 3 10
Seattle U. 3 8
U. of Central Oklahoma 3 4
U. of Scranton 3 8
Valparaiso U. 3 6
Chapman U. 2 3
City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College 2 2
City U. of New York Queens College 2 4
Creighton U. 2 5
La Salle U. 2 3
Truman State U. 2 5
U. of Wisconsin at Eau Claire 2 4
Whitworth U. 2 3
Bachelor's institutions Number of awards Number of applicants
Pomona College 25 51
Smith College 14 31
Wellesley College 11 24
Vassar College 10 35
Wesleyan U. 10 26
Whitman College 10 23
Mount Holyoke College 9 29
Wheaton College (Mass.) 9 22
Hamilton College (N.Y.) 8 21
Kenyon College 8 20
Pitzer College 8 77
St. Olaf College 8 24
Swarthmore College 8 24
Bowdoin College 7 24
New College of Florida 7 10
Bryn Mawr College 6 16
Connecticut College 5 13
Kalamazoo College 5 8
Macalester College 5 11
Washington and Lee U. 5 9
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 4 8
Grinnell College 4 19
Lafayette College 4 5
Manchester College 4 8
Occidental College 4 24
Spelman College 4 7
Williams College 4 28
Barnard College 3 10
Claremont McKenna College 3 28
Colgate U. 3 17
College of the Holy Cross 3 18
Denison U. 3 15
DePauw U. 3 8
Dickinson College 3 9
Earlham College 3 6
Georgetown College 3 4
Hendrix College 3 6
Nebraska Wesleyan U. 3 13
Oberlin College 3 29
Trinity College (Conn.) 3 8
U. of Puget Sound 3 15
U. of Richmond 3 13
Willamette U. 3 14
Other institutions Number of awards Number of applicants
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 5 15
Rhode Island School of Design 2 14
Babson College 1 1
Brooklyn Law School 1 3
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering 1 1
Juilliard School 1 6
Manhattan School of Music 1 3
Maryland Institute College of Art 1 5
North Carolina School of the Arts 1 3
U. of California Hastings College of Law 1 3
William Mitchell College of Law 1 1
NOTE: Institutions are grouped according to the 2005 classification done by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The group of other institutions includes two-year, specialized, and unclassified institutions. A complete list of institutions is available at <a href="http://us.fulbrightonline.org%5B/url%5D">http://us.fulbrightonline.org</a>
SOURCE: Institute of International Education </p>
<p>COUNTRIES SENDING MOST FULBRIGHT STUDENTS TO U.S., 2007-8</p>
<p>Home country Number of students
Germany 223
Pakistan* 178
Colombia 73
Indonesia 72
Turkey 67
Russia 64
Chile 59
Brazil 57
Mexico 51
Spain 41
Afghanistan 37
Ecuador 36
Iraq 32
Argentina 26
India 26
Japan 25
The Netherlands 25
Belgium 24
Israel 23
Ukraine 23
France 22
New Zealand 22
Norway 22
Italy 20
NOTE: The number of Fulbright grants available in each country is determined by the funds provided by that country and the United States.
* Financed in partnership with U.S. Agency for International Development.
SOURCES: Institute of International Education; America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (Amideast); Laspau: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas</p>
<p>FYI, the Fulbright Scholar program is separate and for teachers/professors only (I should have said "Fulbright Fellowships" in the title of this thread instead).</p>
<p>Secondly, the total numbers for Fulbright Fellowships are for both undergraduate as well as graduate students. Therefore, those schools with grad students "overstate" the number of Fulbrights if you're just interested in their undergraduate production. For instance, last year Columbia had 23 Fulbrights, but 13 were for their grad students, only 10 for undergrad. <a href="https://us.fulbrightonline.org/documents/instit.pdf%5B/url%5D">https://us.fulbrightonline.org/documents/instit.pdf</a>
I haven't yet seen a similar breakdown for this year's recipients.</p>
<p>UW-MADISON A TOP PRODUCER OF U.S. FULBRIGHT STUDENTS</p>
<p>MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison students fared well in landing international fellowships with The Fulbright Program, which announced its 2007-2008 fellows list in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education.</p>
<p>In all, 24 UW-Madison students from UW-Madison won Fulbright awards for 2007-2008, of which 18 accepted. </p>
<p>"Fellowships like these equip our students with the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly global environment," says Gilles Bousquet, dean of the Division of International Studies and director of the International Institute. "We are proud that UW-Madison's students are on the forefront of global competence and engagement; it is testimony to the strength of our area and international programs."</p>
<p>The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides funding for one academic year of study, research, or assistant teaching abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Financial support is provided by an annual appropriation from Congress to the Department of State, with significant contributions from participating governments and host institutions.</p>