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The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is a US government-funded exchange that supports graduate students, young professionals and artists from around the world to study or conduct research in the United States. It is one of the better-known routes to a funded period in the US, but the details are set country by country. In some places it funds a full master's degree. In others, including Nigeria in recent cycles, it has been aimed at people who are already enrolled in a doctoral programme and who would go to the US as visiting researchers, not as typical taught-master's students. This is general information, not an official application pack. Always use your local US Embassy or Fulbright Commission page. For Nigeria, start with the US Embassy in Nigeria: Fulbright Foreign Student Program page and any current call for applications published there. Other African applicants should use the US Embassy or Commission site for their own country, because eligibility can differ. What ...