Chronicle of Higher Education Names New College a Top Producer of Fulbright Winners

In just the last few years, New College students have won Fulbright awards to study Iraqi refugees in Sweden, to learn about music and opera management in Germany, to conduct cancer research in Germany and to document giraffe populations in Namibia.
Those are just four of the College’s 58 Fulbright awards in the past 10 years, a track record that caused The Chronicle of Higher Education to once again list New College as a top producer of Fulbright winners.
According to data the Chronicle published last week, New College ranks fourth among the nation’s bachelor degree-granting institutions for the number of Fulbright awards per students enrolled in the college. That group includes most other leading liberal arts colleges, such as Williams, Middlebury, Oberlin and Swarthmore.
New College also produced more Fulbrights per capita than the country’s leading research institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford and Georgetown.
New College also excelled when looking at the success rate of its Fulbright applicants, the Chronicle found. An even 25 percent of its 2014 applicants received Fulbright awards — again outperforming Harvard, Princeton, Yale and many others.