UC Davis students have benefited or are benefiting from their study or research experience abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.  For the 2008-09 year, 11 UC Davis students and graduates from among 28 applicants have been offered Fulbright awards.

The application cycle for the 2009-2010 U.S. Fulbright Student competition opens on May 1, 2008. The deadline for applications to be received electronically by IIE is October 20, 2008. Hard copy applications and all support documents must be received by October 22, 2008.

For more information or to submit an application visit: http://us.fulbrightonline.org

The Fulbright program:

• Is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
• Is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
• Was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries."
• Awarded approximately six thousand grants in 2007, at a cost of more than $262 million, to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 155 countries, and to their foreign counterparts to engage in similar activities in the United States.
• Receives its primary source of funding through an annual appropriation from Congress to the Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions in foreign countries, and in the United States, also contribute financially through cost-sharing and indirect support, e.g., through salary supplements, tuition waivers, and university housing.
• The U.S. Student Program grant numbers are subject to the availability of federally appropriated funds. The United States Department of State reserves the right to alter, without notice, participating countries, numbers of awards, terms of agreement, and allowances.