Baylor Launches Fulbright Awards Application Process
Baylor launches its Fulbright application process for the upcoming year with information sessions and workshops
Madelene Do on her 2025 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award in Vietnam
Baylor University has just officially launched its Fulbright Awards application process for this year's award cycle.
Designed to promote mutual understanding between the United States and more than 140 countries, the Fulbright US Student Program grants students a year of study, research, or teaching abroad. US citizens who graduate this year or next, alumni, as well as graduate students are eligible. The application process for the 2026-27 award cycle begins now and ends with Baylor’s internal deadline in September.
Those interested in learning more about this year's application process can explore our Baylor Fulbright website by clicking the How To Begin link. The first steps in that process include completing our interest form and attending our initial info sessions and workshops. To read profiles from a few of our previous winners, please visit the main Baylor Fulbright page.
Baylor Student Fulbright Success
Baylor students have enjoyed mounting success with the Fulbright in recent years. A University-record 48 Baylor students and alumni have been named finalists for the Fulbright award for the most recent 2025-26 award cycle. With opportunities ranging from study in the United Kingdom, to research in Germany, or English teaching in more than a dozen different countries, Baylor's finalists will learn ultimate results in March and April, when Fulbright commissions around the world select winners.
This year's 48 finalists surpassed a previous record of 34 in 2024. Three cycles ago, when Baylor registered a record 14 Fulbright winners, 27% of the University's applicants won the award, resulting in Baylor's first recognition as a Fulbright Top Producing Institution. Two cycles ago, Baylor notched 12 winners, with a 28% success rate—the second consecutive year Baylor became a Fulbright Top Producer. Last year, Baylor's 34 finalists yielded 18 winners, again notching Baylor as a Fulbright Top Producer.
Fulbright alumni work to make a positive impact on their communities, sectors and the world and have included 41 heads of state or government, 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 80 MacArthur Fellows and countless leaders and changemakers who build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.