Fulbright Visiting Student Researchers Program 2026/2027 for Doctoral Students (Fully Funded to the United States )

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Application Deadline: Varying by Country

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026/2027 Fulbright Visiting Student Researchers Program. The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program offers grants to roughly 850 international students from over 100 nations to conduct post-doctoral analysis at U.S. establishments from an educational semester to a full educational yr. 

SELECTION CRITERIA

 Applications should be thought-about in a clear competitors. The interview committee is comprised of certified native representatives from the U.S. and nominating nation.

1. Nominees should be residents or nationals of the nominating nation, or everlasting residents holding a sound passport issued by the nominating nation.
2. Nominees should have a minimum of the equal of 4 (4) years of college study and the equal of a U.S. bachelor’s diploma.  Nominees which have three (3) years of tertiary study ought to have the equal of 13 (13) years of major and secondary college and their undergraduate diploma ought to permit them to be eligible to pursue larger schooling of their home nation.  Please notice that ultimate equivalency selections will likely be decided by every U.S. college and never all establishments will settle for three (3) yr undergraduate levels.
3. Nominees ought to have a ample degree of English proficiency to allow them to interact in full-time graduate degree study in the U.S., as demonstrated in interviews and through standardized exams.
4. Nominees should meet the minimal scores on required standardized exams; these take a look at scores ought to be submitted to and reviewed by Posts PRIOR to October 1, 2025, to make sure that they meet the requirements listed beneath in the Standardized Testing part. Any nominee who doesn’t meet these requirements is not going to transfer ahead in the placement course of.
5. Nominees ought to have a excessive motivation and a severe dedication to finishing the program as scheduled and to returning home.
6. Nominees with no intensive or current U.S. expertise will likely be given choice.
7. No applicant could obtain multiple Fulbright Student grant, together with Humphrey Scholar alumni. This doesn’t apply to the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program alumni.
8. Local staff employees (LES) overseas employed by the State Department/United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are ineligible for grants throughout the interval of their employment and for one yr following the termination of employment.

Note: MASTERS and First-Degree candidates are NOT certified to apply for this program.

How to apply:

 Completed functions should embody:

• Three (3) Letters of Reference (will be submitted on-line by instructors, professors or work supervisors);
• Detailed challenge statements of proposed exercise for analysis/lecturing in the U.S.
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae (resume)
• Academic transcripts/diplomas (licensed translation into English or verified copies of unique educational transcript and diploma certificates – scanned and hooked up to the application);
• Official English translation of certificates for the present educational standing (scanned and hooked up to the application);
• Valid outcomes from the U.S. standardized take a look at – TOEFL/IELTS,GRE/GMAT
• a replica of a sound passport.

Please notice that every one gadgets ought to be translated into English.

Participating Countries

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Fulbright Visiting Student Researchers Program