Award Description
The U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, and early career professionals to study, conduct research, and/or teach English abroad for six months to a year. It can also be used for creative or performing arts projects. In addition, Critical Language Enhancement Awards are given to grantees for study of critical need foreign languages before or during their grant period.
This extremely versatile award prioritizes building mutual understanding between individuals of different nationalities and is focused on building lasting partnerships abroad. You can embark on this program in any discipline and any subject one of over 140 countries worldwide.
Award Details
Each Fulbright recipient receives at minimum:
- A living stipend based on cost of living in the target country.
- Airfare to and from the target country.
- Accident & sickness health benefits
- 24/7 mental health support line for urgent and non-urgent situations
- 12 months of non-competitive eligibility hiring status in U.S. federal government jobs.
Awards can also include tuiition expenses, English language teaching prep courses (for some ETA recipients), or various one-time allowances. These awards are country-specific.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- Be U.S. citizens or nationals at the time of application deadline.
- Have a bachelor's degree or equivalent by the time of grant start (graduating seniors are eligible to apply).
- Meet language requirements of award for which they are applying (only in the cases of awards which require language)
Application Timeline
- 2025-2026 Fulbright competition opens: April 2, 2024
- OSU campus deadline*: extended to August 16, 2024 5 pm U.S. west coast time
- OSU campus Interviews: starting September 4 through tbd, 2024
- Fulbright National Deadline: October 8, 2024
*If applicants wish to receive OSU campus endorsement on their application, they must turn their application in to OSU National and Global Scholarships Advising by this date. Campus endorsement includes an interview and feedback session from OSU community members.
Get Started
Fulbright hosts webinars and information sessions regularly in a wide variety of topics. Tune in to learn about how you might utilize Fulbright to engage with the world!
National and Global Scholarships Advising hosts a Canvas site that we can add you to upon request with all of our best advice for this application.
Contact LeAnn Adam or Becca Otto in National and Global Scholarships Advising to talk about how to begin your application and get added to the Canvas resource!
Past Recipients of the Fulbright Award at OSU:
Year |
Name |
Country |
Field of Study |
| 2024 | Emma Baughman | Sweden | Chemistry |
| 2024 | Mohnish Judge | India | Linguistics |
| 2024 | Aubreyanna Olsen | Colombia | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2024 | Camden Schmidt | Poland | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2023 | Bridget Price | Netherlands | Engineering |
| 2023 | Shaurya Gaur | Netherlands | Computer Science |
| 2023 | Andrew Harker | Spain | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2023 | Daniel Howell | Germany | Biology |
| 2023 | Brandt Bridges | Mexico | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2023 | Marichelle Gurski | Germany | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2023 | Scout Osborne | Honduras | Medical Sciences |
| 2023 | Jeremy Chu | Taiwan | English Teaching Flagship |
| 2022 | Stan Cates | Norway | Biology |
| 2022 | Jeremy Chu | Taiwan | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2022 | Jackie Delie | Uganda | Wildlife Management |
| 2022 | Julia Kim | South Korea | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| 2022 | Christina Linkem | Costa Rica | Environmental Sciences |
| 2022 | Saki Nakai | Luxembourg | Psychology |
| 2022 | Jane Vinesky | Mexico | Biology |
| 2021 | Sage Fox | Chile | Fisheries Science |
| 2021 | Ellen McPherson | Germany | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2021 | Maja Engler | Germany | Neuroscience |
| 2021 | Emily Newton | New Zealand | Biology |
| 2020 | Ryan Baumbusch | Spain | Zoology |
| 2020 | Isabella Karabinas | Spain | Neoroscience |
| 2020 | Marika Stock | Denmark | Geology |
| 2019 | Omar Sheikh | Canada | Engineering |
| 2019 | Maggie Exton | Indonesia | Engineering |
| 2019 | Delaney Smith | Belgium | Biology |
| 2019 | Andrea Burton | Romania | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2019 | Dang Duong | Kazakhstan | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2018 | Hunter Briggs | UK, Leicester | Criminology/Law |
| 2018 | Dang Duong | Kazakhstan | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2018 | Niki Hobbs | Germany | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2018 | Ellen Lamont | India | Geology |
| 2018 | Kai Parker | Chile | Engineering |
| 2018 | Traben Pleasant | Panama | Anthropology |
| 2018 | Grace D'Angelo | Germany | Biology |
| 2017 | Lynda Bradley | South Africa | Biology |
| 2017 | Caitlyn Clark | Denmark | Engineering |
| 2017 | Arianna Kahler-Quesada (Seydel Award) | Switzerland | Medical Sciences |
| 2017 | Ian Morelan | Norway | Biology |
| 2017 | Sarah Brown | Hungary | Sociology |
| 2017 | Sara Bennett | Czech Republic | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2016 | Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle | Chile | Wildlife Science |
| 2016 | Chris Foertsch | Indonesia | Anthropology |
| 2015 | Stephanie Rich | Germany | Engineering |
| 2015 | Erin Fedewa | Trinidad | Fisheries Science |
| 2015 | Dennis Sweeney | Malta | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2014 | Rose Hickman | Mexico | Economic Development |
| 2014 | Annika O'Dea | Senegal | Geology |
| 2012 | Arianna Shroyer | UK | International Relations |
| 2010 | Hathai Sangsupan | Thailand | Forest Ecology |
| 2010 | Arthur Bass | Norway | Fisheries Science |
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2000s |
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| 2009 | Brooke Peterschmidt | Norway | Horticulture |
| 2008 | Seth White | Czech Republic | Fisheries Science |
| 2008 | Alison Newman | Sri Lanka | Public Health |
| 2008 | Christina Murphy | Chile | Fisheries & Wildlife |
| 2008 | Robert Lamb | Ecuador | Marine Biology |
| 2008 | Matt Hawkyard | Norway | Fisheries Science |
| 2008 | Sarah Gallup | France | English Teaching Assistantship |
| 2007 | Danya Rumore | New Zealand | Environmental Science |
| 2006 | Shannon Wanless | Taiwan | Human Development & Family Science |
| 2006 | Alison Hyde | Germany | Environmental Science |
| 2004 | Barbara Han | Venezuela | Zoology |
| 2003 | Elise Granek | Panama | Zoology/Marine Ecology |
| 2002 | Glenn Almany | Australia | Zoology/Marine Ecology |
| 2001 | Rochelle Rainey | Nepal | Public Health |
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1990s |
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| 1997 | Gary Vaughn | Thailand | Biology |
| 1995 | Kerry Griffin | Nambia | Agriculture |
| 1993 | Jeffery Capizzi | Thailand | Public Health |
| 1991 | Robert Kuhlken | Fiji | Geography |
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1980s |
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| 1989 | Randall Keller | Poland | Geology |
| 1988 | Jeffery Connor | West Germany | Economics |
| 1986 | Russell Van Dissen | New Zealand | Geology |
| 1984 | Susan Lewis | Finland | Scandinavian Languages and Literature |
| 1983 | Pamela Dupee | Australia | Biology |
| 1982 | Pamela Dupee | Australia | Biology |
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1970s |
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| 1973 | Edwin Brush | Phillippines | N/A |
| 1972 | Tracy Colby | Poland | Design |
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1960s |
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| 1968 | Walter Massie | Netherlands | Engineering |
| 1967 | John Markham | Denmark | Biology |
| 1965 | Sheila Roffler | New Zealand | Chemistry |
| 1950s | |||
| 1959 | Ronald Guenther | West Germany | Mathematics |
| 1959 | Sheryl Youde | Philippines | Sociology |
| 1953 | Joan Rutter | Denmark | Sociology |
| 1951 | Bonita Miller | United Kingdom | Environmental Studies |
| 1950 | Walter Vincent | Belgium | Biology |
| 1950 | Frank Von Borstel | New Zealand | Agriculture |