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Exchange Programs

Overview

Public Diplomacy Section administers a broad range of educational exchange programs. These programs, whether designed for undergraduate students or post-Doctoral candidates, are intended to further the free flow of information and ideas and to enhance mutual understanding.

They include the programs listed on this page.

Fulbright Programs

Fulbright Specialist Program

The program is a field-driven initiative in which foreign host institutions conceptualize and design projects of interest within an eligible discipline that represent a priority for their respective organizations. These projects are then paired with a highly qualified U.S. academic or professional, who shares their expertise and assists with strengthening linkages between U.S. and foreign host institutions.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program

The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program offers three to five month grants to educators, scholars and experienced professionals to lecture and/or research, or explore best practices to curriculum development in the United States.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program brings scholars and professionals from other countries to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities that do not often host visiting scholars.

Fulbright Foreign Student Program

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students and young professionals to study in the United States for up to two years and earn a Master’s degree.

Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program

The Fulbright TEA Program will bring approximately 180 international secondary level teachers of English, English as a Foreign Language, math, science, foreign languages, social studies, journalism, and communications, including special education teachers in those subjects, to the United States for a six-week program to take academic seminars for professional development at a host university and to observe and share their expertise with teachers and students at the host university and at local secondary schools.

Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program

The Humphrey Fellowship Program is a Fulbright program that brings accomplished young and mid-career professionals from designated countries around the world to the United States for ten months of non-degree graduate study and related practical professional experiences. Fellowships are granted competitively to professionals with a commitment to public service in either the public or private sector.

Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD)

Global UGRAD, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and supported by the people of the United States, provides one academic semester of undergraduate, non-degree study in the United States. The competition is open to undergraduate students from underrepresented sectors of East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Near East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.

Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX)

The Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) is a cultural exchange program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and administered in the Republic of Uzbekistan by American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS (American Councils) and supported by the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent and the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The program provides students from across Uzbekistan with the opportunity to study in a U.S. high school and live in an American host family for one academic year.

Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI)

Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Young Women Leaders

SUSI for Young Women Leaders are intensive short-term academic summer programs whose purpose is to provide groups of student leaders with a deeper understanding of the United States, while simultaneously enhancing their leadership skills.

TechWomen

TechWomen empowers, connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East by providing them the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities.

TechGirls

TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young girls from Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa to pursue careers in science and technology.