Now open: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program’s 2026-2027 Competition

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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program’s 2026-2027 competition is officially open. Georgia Gwinnett College faculty now have a chance to learn about opportunities for U.S. citizens to go abroad in fall 2026 to spring 2027.

The competition opening means faculty have seven months to write their best application, as the due at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15. While this is a generous amount of time for a grant-writing exercise, perhaps the most important step is this first one you will take: choosing one award among our 380+ opportunities for your application. You can apply for only one award per year/competition cycle, so you need to choose wisely.

The Internationalization team encourage faculty to look at the online application and the Application page, which offers plenty of guidance on how best to spend your seven months to write a Fulbright U.S. Scholar application. The application does not require you to work in one sitting, so the sooner you start working online, the sooner Fulbright can see your progress and offer you help.

The Fulbright Scholar Outreach and Recruitment team will help you apply, assisting with everything from award choice to the online application. Its initial help to you comes via an Editorial Feature this month, “How to Read a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award,” but the team is also available through its full slate of webinar programmingthrough the office hours where they can answer your questions live and via email.

Each of the regional inboxes below reaches a real, live Fulbright staff member who can answer your questions:

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