The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal residential exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding Canadian students to study and/or conduct research in the United States. 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. Award recipients include Canadian citizens who are graduate students, prospective graduate students, or junior professionals.
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 the United States.
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 the United States.
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 the United States.
How to Apply
- Eligibility
- Application
- Judging
Applicants must:
- Be a Canadian citizen (Permanent residence is not sufficient).
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree prior to the proposed start date of the grant.
- Be proficient in English.
- Be in compliance with all J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) guidelines.
- Be in compliance with all governmental regulations regarding visas, immigration, travel and residence.
Applicants must not:
- Be a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen.
- Hold permanent residency status in the United States.
- Reside in the United States.
- Have resided abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six year period immediately preceding the date of application.
A period of nine months or more during a calendar year is considered to constitute a full year abroad. - Be seeking enrollment in a medical degree program.
- Possess a Ph.D by the start of the program. Instead, such applicants can visit the Fulbright Scholar Program.
From Fulbright Canada:
“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.”