U.S. Embassy in Cameroon Fulbright Foreign Student Program 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 21, 2025

Applications are open for the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon Fulbright Foreign Student Program 2026-2027. Established in 1946 and funded by the U.S. authorities, the Fulbright Program goals to attain mutual understanding by means of educational and cultural change.

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is a aggressive, benefit-primarily based scholarship program which recruits and nominates younger Cameroonian professionals for graduate stage research at U.S. universities. Each 12 months roughly 3-5 Cameroonians are granted totally funded scholarships. Awards are contingent upon approval by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board, availability of funds, and profitable educational placement.

Scholarship

• The FFSP is for candidates in graduate study in the United States. Priority is given to candidates pursuing a grasp’s diploma over Ph.D. diploma. Grantees obtain funding for a most of two years of diploma study.
• Successful candidates will obtain a full scholarship which covers charges associated to tuition, spherical-journey airfare to the United States, a month-to-month stipend, and medical health insurance to pursue a graduate diploma program that begins in the educational 12 months 2026-2027.
• Students accepted to diploma applications lower than two years are solely eligible to obtain funding by means of the designated interval of diploma completion – as stipulated by the host establishment. Candidates in non-diploma analysis (i.e., visiting scholar researchers) will take part in a tutorial 12 months (9-10 months) non-diploma analysis program.

Eligibility

• Be a Cameroonian citizen, or a everlasting resident holding a sound Cameroonian passport.
• Have at the least the equal of 4 (4) years of college study and the equal of a U.S. bachelor’s diploma. Applicants which have three (3) years of tertiary study ought to have the equal of 13 (13) years of main and secondary college and their undergraduate diploma ought to permit them to be eligible to pursue increased schooling in Cameroon. Please observe that last equivalency choices will probably be decided by every U.S. college and never all establishments will settle for a 3 (3) 12 months undergraduate diploma.
• Have a stage of English proficiency that’s enough to interact in full-time graduate stage study in the United States. However, there may be an choice to do lengthy-time period English (LTE) language study for Master’s diploma searching for candidates with average English language abilities for a interval of as much as eight months. Participation in LTE will probably be decided by the Embassy and program organizers primarily based on English language means as displayed throughout interviews and TOEFL take a look at scores.
• Special lodging can be found for college kids with disabilities. The Department of State has supplied earlier grantees with a display screen reader and observe taking software program, laptops, cell telephones, canes, and/or wheelchairs to help them whereas on their grant in the United States.

Selection Criteria

This competitors relies on educational {and professional} deserves, with out regard to race, colour, nationwide origin, intercourse, age, faith, geographic location, socio-financial standing, incapacity, sexual orientation, or gender id.  Preference is given to these with out intensive or current expertise in the United States. A profitable applicant is somebody who can:

• Demonstrate a severe dedication to finishing this system as scheduled and to returning to Cameroon.
• Demonstrate a transparent and detailed description of the study targets and present a transparent connection between their study targets and future targets by means of a compelling set of essays.
• Have a depth and breadth of labor expertise in their supposed subject of study, and a full understanding of the sphere.
• Demonstrate management potential primarily based on participation in educational, additional-curricular, neighborhood {and professional} growth actions, and private attributes.
• Show dedication to Cameroon and potential to make a constructive influence upon return.
• Contribute to selling mutual understanding between the individuals of the United States and Cameroon by means of instructional and cultural change actions.
• Be prepared to be a cultural ambassador of Cameroon.
• Have demonstrated educational excellence and powerful English proficiency.

Application

Your on-line application MUST embody

• A Personal assertion (essay)
• Study targets (essay)
• A Resume/CV
• University Transcripts
• Diploma(s)
• 3 Letters of advice
• Writing Sample* (extremely really useful although not required)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to FFSP.