21 Facts About Rhodes Scholarship

1.

Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,229
2.

Rhodes Scholarship Scholars have achieved distinction as politicians, academics, scientists and doctors, authors, entrepreneurs, and Nobel Prize winners.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,230
3.

The Rhodes Scholarship program was a copy that soon became the best-known version.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,231
4.

The Rhodes Trust established the scholarships in 1902 under the terms laid out in the sixth and final will of Cecil John Rhodes, dated 1 July 1899 and appended by several codicils through March 1902.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,232
5.

Rhodes Scholarship, who attended Oriel College, Oxford, believed the university's residential colleges would be the best venue to nurture diplomatic ties between future world leaders.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,233
6.

Cecil Rhodes Scholarship wished current scholars and Rhodes Scholarship alumni to have "opportunities of meeting and discussing their experiences and prospects".

FactSnippet No. 1,087,234
7.

Rhodes Scholarship added that the scholars should be distributed among the Colleges at Oxford, that the trustees could remove any scholar at their discretion, and that the trustees were to host an annual dinner so scholars could discuss their "experiences and prospects".

FactSnippet No. 1,087,235
8.

In 2015, the Rhodes Scholarship extended into new territories, first with the announcement of a number of scholarships for China, later with the announcement of one to two scholarships per year for the United Arab Emirates.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,236
9.

In 2007, the Association of American Rhodes Scholarship Scholars published a retrospective on the first 30 years of female recipients, many of whom individually recounted personal experiences as well as professional accomplishments.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,237
10.

In South Africa, the will of Cecil Rhodes expressly allocated scholarships to four all-male private schools.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,238
11.

At least a half dozen 1990s Rhodes Scholarship Scholars became partners at Goldman Sachs and, since the 1980s, McKinsey has had numerous Rhodes Scholarship Scholars as partners.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,239
12.

Highest-ranking career choice for Rhodes Scholarship Scholars is education and academia, with many becoming deans of law and medical schools and others becoming professors and lecturers.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,240
13.

Rhodes Scholarship Scholars have had a notable impact in the fields of medicine and science.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,241
14.

Rhodes Scholarship was credited with maintaining the high quality of basic science research in the Institutes.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,242
15.

Rhodes Scholarship was later arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,243
16.

Rhodes Scholarship observed that shifts in the developing world, particularly dietary changes and increased urbanization, lead to higher incidences of heart attacks and strokes.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,244
17.

One of the first recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship was the American poet, educator and critic John Crowe Ransom.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,245
18.

Rhodes Scholarship became a founding member of the influential Fugitive literary group.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,246
19.

Tasmanian Rhodes Scholarship Scholar Richard Flanagan is a celebrated author, having been awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,247
20.

Rhodes Scholarship's is currently coordinating missions between the Johnson Space Center and the International Space Station as an employee of NASA.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,248
21.

Rhodes Scholarship model has inspired successor scholarships in many countries.

FactSnippet No. 1,087,249