Overview
- The U.S. class will join peers from 25 other jurisdictions plus two Global Scholars, forming an international cohort of just over 100 students.
- This year’s competition included 965 endorsements from 264 colleges and universities, with 238 finalists interviewed on selection day.
- Harvard, Yale, MIT, and the U.S. Military Academy each produced three American recipients, while MIT also celebrated a Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholar among four total honorees.
- Brown University and the U.S. Air Force Academy each had two U.S. scholars, and Colby College, Rutgers University, and George Washington University recorded their first winners in more than 25 years.
- The cohort’s interests span housing, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison reentry, with examples including MIT’s Alice Hall on clean energy, UChicago’s Tori Harris in African Studies and archaeology, and Duke’s William Lieber on reentry policy; awards typically fund about $75,000 per year, reaching roughly $250,000 for extended study.