<p>Just another sign of the quality of the academics and prestige of Brown University: </p>
<p>“Here is a list of institutions producing Fulbright Scholars this year, from Chronicle of Higher Education. Note that the number of applicants is for the most part fairly consistent from each school (although large schools like UC Berkeley have a few more than smaller ones), but the number who win from each school is very different:” (courtesy of posterX)</p>
<p>1 Yale U. 31
2 Harvard U. 25
3 Brown U. 24
4 Columbia U. 21</p>
<p>7 U. of Pennsylvania 18</p>
<p>9 Cornell U. 15 </p>
<p>14 Princeton U. 13</p>
<p>Dartmouth: Fewer than 10 (wasn’t in the top 25)</p>
<p>Fulbright Scholar Program is designed for U.S. faculty and professionals. The scholar awards are designed for U.S. citizens who wish to lecture, conduct research, or participate in special Fulbright seminars abroad. It is a highly prestigious and competitive program sponsored by United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) assists in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program for faculty and professionals.</p>
<p>PosterX is full of ****. Don't listen to that troll, every "fact" (which magically all have yale as the top school) that he posts is made up. HERE is a real list (notice yale's 7 INCLUDING graduate students)</p>
<p>LACs shine here as well - 42% of the applicants at the top 5 LACs received the Fulbright award whereas only 26% of the applicants at the top 5 Universities received the award. (33% at Yale)</p>
<p>I <em>believe</em> that the top list was meant to be for 2007 (Ivies only, hence the missing spots) and the next was for 2006. There was another post on the 2006 list.</p>
<p>Rhodes Scholarship and Marshall Scholarship recipients are a much better indicator of academic quality, since they are much harder to get and only really go to the top 30 or 40 college graduates in the entire nation, out of 1000s of applicants.</p>
<p>In those areas, Harvard and Yale are dominant. The year before last, for example, Yale had 7 recipients of the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship -- more than the rest of the Ivy League combined. Since the Rhodes began, Harvard and Yale have each received over 200 awards, Princeton has had about 180 and all the other Ivies have had fewer than 60-70. </p>
<p>In terms of Marshall and Rhodes Scholars, Brown has been doing quite well in recent years, however - perhaps the best in the Ivy League after Harvard and Yale, even! I haven't calculated the total for the past 5-10 years lately, but Brown is definitely giving Princeton a run for its money.</p>
<p>Great link. It'd be helpful if it were adjusted for per capita awards, though -- as you know, K-State, Stanford, Harvard and Cornell are all quite a bit larger than MIT, Princeton, Yale or Chicago. If you did this I would suspect places like Williams, Amherst and Dartmouth might start to make their way into the list.</p>
<p>Also, I would remove the Goldwater Scholarship figures or at least weight the numbers equally using an "index"... because there are so many more Goldwaters than any others! And that award is not nearly as prestigious or selective as the Rhodes, Marshall or Truman.</p>
<p>You can see Brown is doing very well - perhaps not giving Princeton a run for its money just yet (although that might change if you looked at the 2000-2007 figures, not the 1986-2007 ones :)</p>
<p>That list only gives top 10, so no way to know what the next few dozen schools would be, or what a per capita top 10 would look like. One could do a per capita top 10 from this group.</p>