Pre-Departure Orientations

Non-U.S. Scholars

Each year roughly 850 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar awards for advanced research and university lecturing in the United States. Individual awards are available to scholars from over 100 countries.

Non-U.S. Scholars

U.S. Institutions

U.S. Higher Education institutions are instrumental to the success of the Fulbright mission. They are key allies in advancing the goal of sharing knowledge across communities, promoting mutual understanding across nations and improving lives around the world.

U.S. Institutions

2025 Pre-Departure Orientation Schedule

All candidates accepting awards for the following programs are required to attend a pre-departure orientation. If your country is not listed, there is no pre-departure orientation in the United States and the Fulbright Commission in your host country will provide more details.

The 2025 Pre-Departure Orientations will be virtual, and sessions will be held over the dates listed below. Attendance at Pre-Departure Orientations is mandatory. If you are not able to attend a session at the given time, you will be required to watch the recording.

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Africa, Sub-Saharan

Countries	Dates
Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Cote d’Ivoire Ethiopia Eswatini Ghana Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe	July 7 – July 8, 2025

East Asia and the Pacific

Countries/Programs	Dates
ASEAN Research Program Cambodia Mongolia Singapore Vietnam	July 24 – July 25, 2025

Europe and Eurasia

Countries	Dates
Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Cyprus Estonia Georgia Kosovo Latvia Lithuania North Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Serbia Slovenia	July 17 – July 18, 2025

Middle East and North Africa

Countries	Dates
Algeria Bahrain Kuwait Oman Palestinian Territories (West Bank) Qatar Saudi Arabia Tunisia United Arab Emirates	July 10 – July 11, 2025

South and Central Asia

Countries	Dates
Bhutan Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Maldives Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan	July 21 – July 22, 2025

Western Hemisphere

Countries	Date
Bahamas Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Belize Bolivia Costa Rica Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Jamaica Panama Paraguay Suriname Trinidad & Tobago	July 14 – July 15, 2025

Fulbright Global Scholar Award

2024 Pre-Departure Orientation Recording

View PowerPoint of 2024 Pre-Departure Orientation

Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship

All candidates accepting awards for the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship program are required to attend a virtual pre-departure orientation. In addition, Fellows to Botswana, Cambodia, Fiji, Ghana, Rwanda, Timor-Leste and Vietnam will be required to attend a pre-departure orientation for their respective world region (see above for dates).

Countries	Dates	Hosted Virtually by:
Botswana Cambodia Colombia Fiji Mongolia Peru Rwanda Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam	Monday, July 29, 2024	IIE and ECA

U.S. Scholar Application Update

2025 Pre-Departure Orientation Schedule