The Scholars are truly remarkable and inspiring individuals and showed at interview that they fit the mission of the Scholarship by their commitment to using their academic skills and leadership capacity to improve the lives of others.
- Professor Barry Everitt
The Scholars will join the 35 US Scholars selected in late January to form the class of 2016, all of whom will take up the most prestigious international postgraduate scholarship at the University of Cambridge this October.
The 55 new Scholars come from 30 countries - ranging from Colombia to Australia and Denmark to Sudan - and include the first ever Scholar from Rwanda. They represent 68 universities - 18 of which have produced their first Gates Cambridge Scholar – and at Cambridge will study in 39 University Departments and be members of 24 Colleges. Forty-one will pursue a PhD and 14 a one-year MPhil. Women outnumber men by a ratio of 36 to 19.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship aims to identify and select applicants who are academically outstanding and are likely to be transformative leaders for the benefit of others in all fields of endeavour.
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