Top Producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars and Students, 2019-20

Several colleges have seen an increase this year in their numbers of award recipients in the Fulbright U.S. Scholar and Fulbright U.S. Student Programs. The exchange programs are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Eight doctoral, two master’s, seven baccalaureate, and two special-focus institutions, all highlighted with boldfaced text, were top producers of both U.S. scholars and U.S. students in 2019-20.

Among the top-producing doctoral institutions of Fulbright U.S. students, 16 have been on the top-producing list every year for the past 10 years. They are Arizona State University; Boston College; Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, Villanova, and Yale Universities; Rutgers University at New Brunswick; and the Universities of California at Berkeley, Chicago, Michigan at Ann Arbor, and North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ine baccalaureate institutions have also been top producers of Fulbright U.S. students every year for the past 10 years. They are Amherst, Hamilton, Oberlin, Pitzer, Pomona, Smith, Swarthmore, Vassar, and Williams Colleges.

Institutions with the most Fulbright U.S. scholars in 2019-20 are listed directly below, followed by separate listings of institutions with the most Fulbright students.

Fulbright U.S. scholars

Fulbright U.S. students

Note: Data cover confirmed recipients for the 2019-20 academic year and are current as of January 17, 2020. Tied institutions are listed alphabetically. Categories are based on the 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Fulbright Scholar Program sponsors American and foreign participants for exchanges in the sciences, academe, public service, the arts, and other areas to promote mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study or research programs, or English-teaching-assistant programs, in many foreign countries. Institutions that were top producers of both Fulbright U.S. scholars and Fulbright U.S. students in 2019-20 appear in boldface. More data can be found at the Fulbright website.

Source: Institute of International Education