PRESS RELEASES 2007

U.S. Embassy Announces Scholarships for 2009/2010 Fulbright Graduate Program

The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for graduate study at U.S. universities beginning in August, 2009 under the 2009/2010 Fulbright Graduate Student Program. 

These Fulbright grants are awarded to qualified graduates with a first-class honors, upper second class honors, or lower second class honors Bachelor's degree, who wish to continue their studies in the U.S. for either a Master's degree or a Ph.D. degree in the humanities or social sciences.  This is a very competitive program and consideration will only be given to Jamaican-citizen graduates of reputable institutions.  Persons with "green cards" (alien registration cards), or those already pursuing studies at a U.S. university or resident in the United States, are NOT eligible to apply for these awards.  Recipients should plan to return to Jamaica on completion of their studies in the U.S. and must spend at least two years in Jamaica before they would be eligible for consideration to immigrate to the U.S.

Applicants will be required to take the next sitting of the paper-based Graduate Record Examination (GRE) on February 2, 2008 (registration deadline/receipt date at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey: December 21, 2007). To schedule an appointment for the paper-based Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), one may do so on-line at www.mba.com; by calling 1-800-GMAT-NOW; or by completing the International Test Scheduling Form in the GMAT bulletin if you will be paying with a U.S. credit card.  Applicants must submit their GRE or GMAT scores along with their applications. GRE and GMAT bulletins are available from the Embassy’s Public Affairs Section, 142 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6 (please contact the Embassy’s Information Resource Center at 702-6172 or 702-6163 for information regarding the collection of GRE or GMAT registration bulletins).  No application will be considered without these scores.  The lowest acceptable score in each of the verbal and quantitative sections of the test is 600 out of a total of 800. 

The US Embassy will accept applications from 1998-2008 graduates only.  No one with a Pass degree or an overall C average or below may apply.  The preliminary Fulbright application form is available on this website.  Application forms are available from the University of the West Indies (Ms. Cheryl Brown, Manager, Office of Sponsored Research); University of Technology, Jamaica (Mrs. Dottie Higgins, Scholarship and Fellowship Coordinator); or Northern Caribbean University ( Dr. Herbert Thompson, President).
                                                 
Completed paper applications, accompanied by the requested supporting documents, must be submitted to Mrs. Angella Harvey, the Embassy's Cultural Affairs Specialist, 142 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6, no later than Thursday, May 30, 2008.  Final interviews of pre-screened candidates will take place in the Embassy’s Public Affairs Section on Wednesday, July 9, 2008.
 
U.S. Embassy contact persons for this program are: Angella Harvey (tel: 702-6113 or 383-0753; e-mail: harveyae@state.gov or Cultural Affairs Assistant Bernadette Hutchinson (tel: 702-6209; e-mail: hutchinsonbg@state.gov.  

Please send an email to opakgn@state.gov to request preliminary application forms.