The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides opportunities for outstanding American students to study and/or conduct research in Canada. Award recipients include American citizens who are graduate students, prospective graduate students, or junior professionals.
Applicants can apply for
- Fulbright Canada Student Awards: US$25,000 for one eight-month academic year. These all-discipline awards can be taken up at any college, university, think tank, or government agency in Canada.
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship: This program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to twelve months.
- Fulbright Canada Student Entrepreneurship Awards: US$25,000 for one eight-month academic year. These awards support the first year of graduate study at a host institution while providing comprehensive resources to transform innovative ideas into entrepreneurial realities. The all-discipline awards can be taken up at any college, university, think tank, or government agency in Canada.
- Fulbright Canada - Honouring Nations Awards: US$25,000 for one eight-month academic year. These awards are dedicated to advancing research that focuses on critical Indigenous issues and fostering social connectedness and belonging within Indigenous communities. and can be taken up at any college, university, think tank, or government agency in Canada.
Excellence in scholarship, diversity, and community service are the hallmarks of the Fulbright Program. Fulbright Canada encourages and promotes bi-national collaborative research and thoughtful public debate on topics that reflect the broad range of contemporary issues relevant to Canada, the United States, and the relationship between the two countries. Fulbright Canada operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding American students to pursue graduate study and/or research in Canada.
Fulbright Canada awards offer a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of scholarly issues, including important contemporary issues that are relevant to Canada, to the United States, and to the relationship between the two countries. While the competition is officially field-open, we are especially keen to support students in the humanities, in the areas of communications and culture, in Canadian - American relations, in all areas of contemporary public policy, on topics relating to culture and to the environment, law, indigenous issues, and in the pure and applied sciences. Please note that there are special competitions in certain areas and that these may vary.