Fulbright Awards

The Fulbright programme offers a range of prestigious exchange awards for New Zealand and American graduate students, academics, artists and professionals to study, research, teach or present their work in each other?s countries. Other awards allow institutions to apply for a visiting Fulbright specialist to assist with their development needs.This scholarship is offered by Fulbright New Zealand and applications can be made on their website.Value/Benefits: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award Level of Study: Postgraduate Closing Date: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award Tenure: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award Number Available Annually: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award Applicable Enrolment During Tenure: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award Citizenship/Residency Requirements: Varies. Please refer to information on the Fulbright NZ website for each available award For more information, or to apply, click here.Fulbright New Zealand offers a range of exchange awards for New Zealanders and Americans wanting to study, research, teach or present their work in each other?s country. The Fulbright programme of international educational exchange was an initiative of American Senator J. William Fulbright from Arkansas, who in the aftermath of World War II believed that mutual understanding between different countries and cultures was crucial to ensure a peaceful future for the world.Fulbright New Zealand was established by bilateral treaty in 1948 to administer the Fulbright exchange programme in New Zealand. The Fulbright programme aims to promote mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchanges, so nations might learn at last to live in peace and friendship. Fulbright New Zealand is jointly funded by the US and New Zealand governments with additional funding from award sponsors, private philanthropists and alumni donors. It is governed by a twelve member Board of Directors comprised of six New Zealanders and six Americans.The Fulbright programme has been described as one of the largest and most significant movements of scholars across the face of the earth and now operates in over 155 countries, funding around 8,000 exchanges per year for participants to study, research, teach or present their work in another country.In Senator Fulbright?s words, the programme aims ?to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.? This goal has always been as important to the programme as individual scholarship.