Awards for both faculty and professionals range from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. The Fulbright Scholar Program's annual competition opens March 1 for lecturing and research grants in some 130 countries. Some 800 academics and professionals will go to 130 countries to lecture or do research as Fulbright scholars. Opportunities are open not only to college and university faculty and administrators, but also to professionals from the business community and government, as well as to artists, journalists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.
Fulbright awards vary from two months to an academic year or longer.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English. Some 80 percent of the awards are for lecturing. 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L, Washington, DC 20008-3009.