Previous Fulbright Grants policy

 
 

The following policy regarding previous holders of Fulbright grants is set out by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) for all awards in the Fulbright Scholar Program:

Preference will be given to candidates who have not had previous Fulbright grants. However, recipients of a basic Fulbright grant are eligible to receive another basic Fulbright grant commencing five years after the date of completion of the previous grant. (For serial grants, the five-year period begins at the end of the final grant in the series).

The five-year requirement between two basic grants does not apply to short-term grants, which are defined as grants of under two months duration. Waiting periods with regard to short-term and basic grants are as follows:

a. Recipients of a short-term grant are eligible to receive a basic grant commencing two years after the date of completion of the preceding short-term grant.

b. Recipients of a basic grant are eligible to receive a short-term grant commencing two years after the date of completion of the preceding basic grant.

c. Recipients of a short-term grant are eligible to receive another short-term grant commencing two years after the completion of the preceding short-term grant.

Number of awards:
The maximum number of any combination of basic Fulbright grants for Scholars and Teachers is limited to two with the following conditions and exceptions:

a. that a Student grant does not count towards this lifetime limit;

b. that a short-term grant (two months or less) shall count as ½ of a basic Fulbright grant for purposes of counting in a lifetime limit and shall not exceed two in a lifetime.

For a full list of J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board policies visit the US Department of State website

 
 
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