Level: Master
Tests needed: GRE, TOEFL
Tuition: Full coverage
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Duration max: 24  months

The Fulbright Graduate Student Program is open to Russian university graduates and to graduate (kandidatskaya) students in the arts, engineering, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. This program supports study for a master's degree program at a U.S. university for up to three academic years. It also supports research at U.S. universities and archives for one academic year to assist in completion of a kandidatskaya degree in Russia.

Applicants must be Russian citizens permanently residing in the Russian Federation who have a university diploma or a bachelor degree.

  • Russian Federation
  • Bio & Biomedical Engineering
  • Biology
  • Communications
  • Criminal Law and Criminology
  • Ecology, Biodiversity & Conservation
  • Economics
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environmental Sciences
  • European Law
  • Gender Studies
  • Geo-information
  • Geography
  • Humanities
  • Hydrology & Water Management
  • Law
  • Natural Sciences
  • Physics
  • Public Administration
  • Public Law
  • Religious Studies and Theology
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Soil Science & Soil Ecology

Finaid max:  USD

Quota:

Grant includes:

  • Tuition payment at a university in the United States
  • Monthly stipend
  • Limited monthly medical insurance
  • Roundtrip transportation to the United States

Duration max: 24  months

Duration comments: This program supports study for a master's degree program for up to two academic years.

Award benefits:

• Full tuition
• Monthly stipend
• Limited health insurance
• Round-trip transportation to the U.S.

Applicants must possess all of the following qualifications in order to be eligible:

  • Citizenship and permanent resident status qualifying the applicant to hold a valid passport issued in the country in which the application is made. Persons applying for or holding permanent residence in the United States are not eligible. Persons who are citizens of both a partner country and the United States are also ineligible. Fulbright Grantees enter the United States on an Exchange Visitor (J-1) visa under a Department of State program and are subject to the two-year home-country residence requirement associated with the J-1 visa.
  • Higher education (certified Bachelor or MA degree or Diploma of Specialist) or for those who will graduate in summer 2015 - official confirmation (Spravka) from their university administration certifying applicant’s coming graduation.
  • English Language skills enough to study or conduct research in US.
  • Date of birth not earlier than May 15, 1985.