Preliminary results of the 2014-2015 Hungarian Fulbright Competition

At its 100th Board Meeting in September, the Hungarian-American Fulbright Board decided to nominate 17 students and 16 scholars (researchers and lecturers) from Hungary for the 2014-15 academic year. The students reflect a diversity of academic fields, 15 different academic areas overall. One Humphrey scholar’s file was forwarded to Washington. That decision will be finalized there.

These nominations will be considered and hopefully confirmed by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in Washington in the first quarter of 2014. Subject to the continued availability of funding, the nominees will contracted during the second quarter of 2014.

Background information:

For Hungarian students, lecturers and researchers, the 2014-2015 Fulbright competition the application deadline was May 13, 2013.

A total number of 147 applications were submitted, out of which 139 were eligible; 83 students, 51 scholars and 5 Humphrey applicants.

Each eligible application was evaluated by two independent Hungarian and American subject-expert peer-reviewers. Altogether 67 professional peer-reviewers took part in the evaluation process.

We conducted 108 personal interviews. 55 students, 47 scholars (researchers and lecturers) and 5 Humphrey applicants were interviewed over 13 interview days.