Recognizing Top
Producing Institutions
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs congratulates the Gilman Top Producing Institutions for academic year 2021-2022.
Watch U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognize our Top Producing Institutions here.
The Gilman Top Producer campaign recognizes U.S. colleges and universities for their dedication to providing global opportunities for American students with support from the Gilman Program. ECA, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education, categorizes Gilman Top Producers by institution size, with a separate category for two-year institutions. ECA is proud to have supported 3,121 Gilman scholars from 52 U.S. states and territories to study or intern around the world during academic year 2021-2022.
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program provides talented U.S. undergraduate students with life-changing opportunities to study or intern abroad despite financial circumstances. The Gilman Program aims to expand the population of U.S. students that study and intern abroad, ensuring more young Americans gain the professional skills, language abilities, and cultural competencies needed for successful careers that contribute to the country’s economic prosperity and national security. The outstanding and diverse U.S. undergraduate students who study overseas with support from the Gilman Program build relationships, foster mutual understanding, and represent American culture and values in diverse destinations. The connections formed through study abroad lay a foundation upon which people and nations can work together to address shared global challenges, such as climate change, food security, and global health.
Top Producing Colleges and Universities
1 – Mercer University
2 – Berea College
3 – University of Richmond
1 – Emory University
2 (tie) – Western Kentucky University
2 (tie) – Syracuse University
3 – University of Notre Dame
1 – University of South Florida
2 – University of California-Berkeley
3 – University of California-Davis
1 – Portland Community College
2 – MiraCosta College
3 – Mesa Community College
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- Clovis Community College
- Colorado Mountain College
- Friends University
- Greenville University
- Indiana University-East
- La Sierra University
- LaGrange College
- Lincoln Memorial University
- Lindenwood University
- Monmouth University
- Rockhurst University
- Seton Hill University
- Southeastern Louisiana University
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University
- Springfield College
- University of North Texas at Dallas
- Wartburg College
- Wilkes University
Foreign Policy in Focus: Refugees and Migration
The Gilman Program hosted an interdisciplinary and interactive hybrid seminar series focused on global migration and refugees in 2023 to enhance participants’ understanding of global migration and refugees through a foreign policy lens, including the social, political, and economic impacts of these issues.
This series consisted of five virtual seminars and two overseas seminars. The virtual series, hosted by Indiana University and reaching an audience of over 41,000 (live or via recordings) providing the foundational elements of global migration, and international refugee policy. Through case studies and discussions with experts – including from refugee communities – participants learned how each refugee experience is unique, shaped by particular social, political, and economic conditions. The Gilman Program selected fifty Gilman alumni to participate from over 600 applicants to attend one of the two seminars, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece and Amman, Jordan. The overseas seminars allowed Gilman alumni to dive more deeply into the topics discussed during the virtual series – offering concrete examples of refugee policies in locations heavily impacted by global migration.
About the Gilman International Scholarship Program
Throughout its more than twenty-year history, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program has reshaped study abroad to make it more accessible by providing scholarships to outstanding U.S. undergraduate students who, due to high financial need, might not otherwise go abroad. Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 41,000 Gilman scholars from all U.S. states, and Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories have studied or interned abroad in over 160 countries.
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
