Fulbright foreign student program 2025-26: Application Process (Fully Funded)
Fulbright foreign student program: Application Process (Fully Funded). The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon is pleased to announce the open competition for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program (FFSP) for academic year 2025-2026.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program which recruits and nominates young Cameroonian professionals for graduate level studies at U.S. universities. Each year approximately 3-5 Cameroonians are granted fully funded scholarships.
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How To Apply to the Fulbright foreign student program
The Fulbright Program for Foreign Students and Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) is administered by binational Fulbright Commissions/Foundations or U.S. Embassies. All Foreign Student and FLTA Program applications are processed by these offices. Program eligibility and selection procedures vary widely by country.
- Candidates MUST attach a copy of bachelor’s degree diploma, certificate, license or equivalent.
- The Fulbright Foreign Student Program has a zero-tolerance plagiarism policy. Application materials will be processed using software to help identify any instance of plagiarism. If plagiarism appears in any part of the application, it may result in the nominee’s disqualification from participation in the program. The Fulbright program will follow the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of plagiarism: Plagiarism is the wrongful appropriation or purloining and publication as one’s own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas of another.
Please use the drop-down menu here to find information about the Fulbright Program in your home country, including eligibility requirements and application guideline.
Ineligibility factors:
The following persons are ineligible to apply for the FFSP:
- Candidates who are currently living or studying in the United States.
- Candidates who have earned a bachelor’s or master’s degree from a U.S. college or university within the last three years.
- Candidates who have received any scholarship for graduate study outside of Cameroon within the past five years or are scheduled to receive any scholarship for graduate study outside of Cameroon.
- Candidates who already received a Fulbright Foreign Student Program grant.
- Candidates who already received a Humphrey Scholarship.
- Local employees of the U.S. Mission in Cameroon employed by the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are ineligible for grants during the period of their employment and for one year following the termination of employment.
Who can apply for the Fulbright foreign student program?
The competition is open to people who meet the following criteria:
- Be a Cameroonian citizen, or a permanent resident holding a valid Cameroonian passport.
- Have a level of English proficiency that is sufficient to engage in full-time graduate level study in the United States. However, there is an option to do long-term English (LTE) language study for candidates with moderate English language skills for a period of up to eight months. Participation in LTE will be determined based on English language ability and test scores.
- Have at least the equivalent of four (4) years of university study and the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree. Applicants that have three (3) years of tertiary study should have the equivalent of thirteen (13) years of primary and secondary school and their undergraduate degree should allow them to be eligible to pursue higher education in Cameroon. Please note that final equivalency decisions will be determined by each U.S. university and not all institutions will accept a three (3) year undergraduate degree.
- Special accommodations are available for students with disabilities. The Department of State has provided previous grantees with a screen reader and note taking software, laptops, cell phones, canes, and/or wheelchairs to assist them while on their grant in the United States.
Deadline: Monday, May 16. 11:59 PM (Cameroon time zone).
Candidates must apply online at: https://apply.iie.org/ffsp2023/
No paper or email applications will be accepted.
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