WASHINGTON (AP) — A new batch of Rhodes scholars from the United States has been selected to study at the University of Oxford in a screening process that was conducted in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020.
The scholars, who are among students selected from more than 70 countries, are due to pursue graduate degrees ranging from social sciences and humanities to biological and physical sciences.
The U.S. scholars were selected by 16 independent district committees from a pool of more than 2,500 applicants.
The sponsorships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, a founder of the diamond mining and manufacturing company De Beers.
The inaugural class entered Oxford in 1903 and the first U.S. Rhodes scholars arrived the next year, according to the website of the trust’s American secretary.
Persons:
Rhodes, —, Ramona L, Doyle, Cecil Rhodes
Organizations:
WASHINGTON, University of Oxford, American, Rhodes, De Beers, Oxford
Locations:
United States, Puerto Rico, American