The United States Information Agency, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and the Institute of International Education announce the official opening of the 1999-2000 competition for Fulbright grants and other grants for graduate study abroad. Grants in academic fields as well as professional training in the creative and performing arts are available. The purpose of these grants is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.
Fulbright grants are available for study or research.
Travel grants are available to selected countries to supplement maintenance awards from other sources that do not provide funds for international travel, or to supplement the applicant's personal funds. For all grants, applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time they apply and hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent by the beginning date of the grant. Applicants in the creative and performing arts are not required to have a bachelor's degree but must have four years of relevant training or study. All applicants are required to have sufficient proficiency in the language of the host country to carry out their proposed study or research. Fulbright grants provide round-trip international travel, maintenance for the tenure of the grant, and tuition waivers, if applicable.