In 2025, nearly 4,700 students, scholars, and professionals started Fulbright exchanges. The Fulbright Program celebrated America250 by highlighting America’s leadership and its contributions to innovation, commerce, science, culture, peace, and freedom throughout the world, and by telling the stories of Fulbrighters who have made lasting impacts.
125 years after his birth, the iconic composer’s work continues to exemplify America’s ethos of optimism and possibility.
The former U.S. Navy pilot says that “the Fulbright experience deepened my commitment to service, strengthened my leadership as a Navy officer, and continues to shape how I lead today as a CEO.”
Fulbright Specialist Christopher Rhoades from Liberty University finds “Whether it’s in Kandahar or Kansas, whether it’s in Bogota, Boston, or Baghdad, human behavior is human behavior, and people are the same everywhere.”
The Fulbright Program has recognized 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities as Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leaders for their notable engagement with the Program during the 2024-2025 academic year.
The pioneer of acoustic engineering and inventor of new technologies for headphones, speakers, and sound systems used his Fulbright to master mathematics and propel his career.
American Fulbright Specialist collaborates with colleagues in Hungary to tell histories of the rise of American industrial dominance.
American historians of the Revolutionary War explain the origins, motivations, and leaders who created the United States of America and teach American history abroad.
Jackson Wilt’s Fulbright experiments have sparked the public’s imagination and can be applied to manufacturing and food production.
Artists, researchers, and scientists who honed their craft through Fulbright—and have made exceptional contributions to their fields—have been honored by the Guggenheim Foundation.