2025 Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships

Welcome to the microsite of the United States Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Each year 32 young students from the United States are selected as Rhodes Scholars, through a decentralized process representing the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Applicants from more than 320 American colleges and universities have been selected as Rhodes Scholars. In most years, even after a century of competition, a Rhodes Scholar is selected from an institution which has not formerly supplied a successful applicant.

• Table of Content
• About Rhodes Trust
• Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
• Aim and Benefits of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
• Requirements for Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships

Aim and Benefits of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships

The Rhodes Trust, a British charity established to honor the will and bequest of Cecil J. Rhodes, provides full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in partnership with the Second Century Founder, John McCall MacBain and other generous benefactor

Requirements for Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships Qualification

Mr. Rhodes' Will contains four criteria by which prospective Rhodes Scholars are to be selected:

1. literary and scholastic attainments;
2. energy to use one's talents to the full;
3. truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship;
4. moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Rhodes Trust Scholarships webpage