Top 10 Producers of Prestigious Fellowships in the Past 25 Years

College Search & Selection
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<p>I just ran across this survey which covers Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall fellowships.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ksu.ksu.edu/media/achievements/scholarstop10of5.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ksu.ksu.edu/media/achievements/scholarstop10of5.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard: 341</li>
<li>Stanford: 220</li>
<li>Yale: 218</li>
<li>Princeton: 207</li>
<li>Duke: 145</li>
<li>Brown, Kansas State University: 136</li>
<li>University of Chicago: 135</li>
<li>MIT: 131</li>
<li>Cornell: 123</li>
</ol>

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<p>School … Undergraduates</p>

<p>Kansas State … 19,000
Cornell … 14,000 (includes hotel management, agriculture, etc.)
Stanford … 6900
Harvard … 6700
Duke … 6500
Brown … 6300
Yale … 5300
Chicago … 5100 (up from 3400 in 1992)
Princeton … 5100
MIT … 4400</p>

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<p>What about the Fulbright? I haven’t found data from all years. However, here are the top 19 schools (because there are a number tied for 20th) from 2011-12:</p>

<p>Univ of Michigan – 29
Northwestern – 27
Yale – 26
Stanford – 25
Univ of Chicago – 25
Univ of Washington – 24
Columbia – 23
Boston College – 21
Harvard – 20
Pitzer – 19
Smith – 19
Arizona State – 18
Univ of North Carolina – 18
Johns Hopkins – 16
Univ of Arizona – 16
Univ of Maryland – 16
George Washington – 15
Georgetown – 15
Pomona College – 15 </p>

<p>Top 20 Rhodes according to The Rhodes Trust website:</p>

<p>Harvard (including Radcliffe) – 335
Yale – 223
Princeton – 199
Stanford – 91
US Military Academy – 87
Dartmouth – 61
Brown – 50
Univ of Chicago – 49
Univ of Virginia – 47
US Naval Academy – 44
Univ of North Carolina – 42
Duke – 41
MIT – 41
US Air Force Academy – 37
Univ of Washington – 37
Williams – 34
Univ of Wisconsin – 30
Swarthmore – 28
Columbia Univ – 27
Cornell Univ – 27</p>

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<p>Several schools have more than one Udall scholar in this year’s class of eighty. I just scanned the list, so there might be others, but among those are the Univ of Arizona (3), Univ of Georgia (3), Arizona State (2), NC State (2), Brown (2), and Temple (2).</p>

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<p>The reason I didn’t include the Fullbright is because its a lot easier to win than those other prestigious fellowships and a certain percentage (maybe even the majority) of the Fullbright winners are graduate students enrolled in PhD programs at those universities, which is not the focus of this forum since we are here to talk about undergraduate education.</p>

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<p>^Udall isn’t exactly that harder to get either. Also, you get more money from Churchill and Gates Cambridge than from Truman. I like how K-State cherry-picks to make itself looks good.</p>

<p>Gates Cambridge gives as much perks, if not more than, Rhodes and Marshall; the only reason it’s not included because K-State doesn’t do well in getting those.</p>

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<p>Cambridge Gates (full tuition + allowances of £13,300, in any subject at Cambridge U) for select schools:</p>

<p>Harvard 79
Stanford
Yale 58
Princeton 43
Columbia 19
Northwestern 16
UChicago 14
Cornell 7
Brown 7
Duke 6
JHU 6
Georgetown 4
Kansas State 0</p>

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<p>“The reason I didn’t include the Fullbright is because its a lot easier to win than those other prestigious fellowships…”</p>

<p>…and Duke doesn’t really produce that many of them. :-)</p>

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<p>This is silly because obviously bigger schools are going to produce more scholars, fellows. Shouldn’t it be done as a percentage?</p>

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<p>^To be fair to large schools (I didn’t go to a large one), what you said is true if fellowship advisors don’t play an important role. But they do and we don’t know if large schools have proportionally more advisors.</p>

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<p>

I know you said “for select schools,” but just for the record:</p>

<p>Penn 20 (including only Penn undergrad)</p>

<p>;)</p>

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<p>And here’s another interesting statistic: In the past five years, the top five Rhodes Scholar producing schools have been Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and UNC. :)</p>

<p>And, because we’re talking about students working to make the world a better place (among the stated goals of the scholarships on this blog), here is a website with lists of the top colleges for Peace Corps volunteers (both for this year and for all time), broken down into large, medium, and small schools, as well as graduate schools.</p>

<p><a href=“http://multimedia.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2012.pdf[/url]”>http://multimedia.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Aren’t statistics fun? There are all kinds of ways to use them.</p>

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<p>45%,</p>

<p>My apology for forgetting one of the top producers. :)</p>

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<p>Marian,</p>

<p>I second what you said about making the world better. There are things that are much more meaningful thing than just moving money around and worse, duping clients and the public (a.k.a. investment banking). What about Teach for America?</p>

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<p>Sam Lee – I found Teach for America’s 2011 list:</p>

<p>Large Schools
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (119 graduates to serve in the 2011 teaching corps)
University of California-Berkeley (89)
University of Texas at Austin (87)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (80)
University of Florida (75)/University of Southern California (75)</p>

<p>Medium-Sized Schools
Harvard University (66)
Boston College (56)
Georgetown University (54)
Duke University (53)
Brown University (49)/Northwestern University (49)</p>

<p>Small Schools
Spelman College (36)
Wellesley College (24)
Barnard College (21)
Amherst College (18)
Claremont McKenna College (17)/College of the Holy Cross (17)</p>

<p>By the way, I’m Marsian, not Marian. I certainly wouldn’t want anyone to hold what I post against her. :)</p>

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<p>Churchill Scholars Historically
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<p>Princeton: 40
Harvard: 37
Duke: 25
Cornell: 22
Caltech, Illinois, Yale: 20
Michigan State: 17
Harvey Mudd: 16
UNC Chapel Hill: 14
Brown, JHU, University of Chicago: 12
MIT, Purdue, U of Rochester, Stanford, University of Michigan: 11
Northwestern: 10</p>

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<p>Re: Post #6: “I like how K-State cherry-picks to make itself looks good.”</p>

<p>What? Is there anything wrong with the research conducted by K-State students who were awarded Goldwater Scholarships?</p>

<p>The quoted comment just reflects the biased belief on this forum that a university like K-State just isn’t deserving of the Goldwaters that its students received. Why is it “cherry-picking” when K-State identifies promising science students and nurtures them, but when Harvard only admits less than 10% of applicants, it’s not cherry-picking?</p>

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<p>

I disagree. The percentages are fairly meaningless; no matter where you go, your odds of getting one of these scholarships would be very small if they were assigned randomly. The point is that they are not assigned randomly, and I think it does reflect well on the scholarship advising staff and supervising faculty for a school to consistently produce winners.

I don’t think that was the implication. The ‘cherry-picking’ is related to the competitions selected as components in this table; K-State has more winners of some scholarships than others. It doesn’t take anything away from K-State’s success to acknowledge the limitations of this ranking.</p>

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<p>per capita would be more meaningful.</p>

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<p>*“The reason I didn’t include the Fullbright is because its a lot easier to win than those other prestigious fellowships…”</p>

<p>…and Duke doesn’t really produce that many of them. :slight_smile: *</p>

<p>Well, is anyone surprised?</p>