Study In US: Brown University Again Named US Top Fulbright-Producing University

U.S. State Department awards the Fulbright scholarship to fund research or teaching abroad. This year, 40 Brown undergraduates and graduate students along with recent alumni were offered Fulbright awards.

In the 2024-25 academic year, Brown University has produced more student Fulbright winners than any US school. This is for the fifth time, Brown University has earned this distinction.

U.S. State Department has this year awarded forty Brown undergraduates, graduate students and recent alumni the Fulbright awards. The university has earned the number one spot for Fulbright University in five years and has been among the top three student Fulbright producers in the nation for the past nine years.

Joel Simundich, assistant dean of the College for fellowships commented, “This recognition reflects the creativity, ambition, and above all, the care our students bring to building and strengthening connections with communities around the world. I hold much excitement for our Fulbright recipients and for every student pursuing the necessary work of fostering collaboration and understanding abroad.”

The recipients get selected based on various factors such as personal qualifications, and the strength of their application.

Brown’s Fulbright Winners Details

Brown’s 2024-25 student Fulbright winners are now teaching or conducting research in nearly two dozen countries including North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Research award recipients are researching in a wide range of academic fields including education, filmmaking, economics and ethnomusicology.

Under teaching placements, the students were placed in high schools, elementary schools and universities. These awardees are exchanging cultural perspectives and providing classroom instruction between the US and their host countries.

Class of 2024 graduate and Fulbright awardee Marielle Buxbaum said, “There’s such an emphasis on family here that it almost feels like home. If you’re here without your family, you’ll quickly get ‘adopted.’ I have, like, five ‘moms’ in Ecuador now, and it’s actually helped me get closer with my own family. I call my grandma every day now.”

“There's just so much confidence that you gain in an environment like Brown. I always felt empowered to pursue my own projects and passions. And now, with the Fulbright, I have been given the great privilege of the time to figure out what it is I want to do as a researcher. There’s so much freedom, creatively and intellectually,” she said.

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