Churchill Scholarship

The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, to pursue research and study in engineering, mathematics, or the biological and physical sciences for one year at the University of Cambridge. Churchill Scholars reside in Churchill College.

Applicants for the Churchill Scholarship must be U.S. citizens between the ages of 19 and 26 and may not hold the doctoral degree.

The first Churchill Scholarships, three in number, were awarded in 1963 and funded one year of study. Shortly thereafter, the Scholarships were available either for one-year programs or for doctoral studies at Cambridge. In the early 1980s the Foundation began to support only one-year programs in order to increase the number of Churchill Scholars. In its early years the Foundation also made small travel grants to Churchill Fellows, distinguished senior faculty at American colleges and universities who would spend one year at the College. Eight of the Churchill Fellows won the Nobel Prize.

Since 1963 some four hundred fifty Churchill Scholarships have been awarded. Fourteen Scholarships are awarded each year and currently provide between $44,000 and $50,000 of support to cover all university and college fees (i.e., tuition) at the University of Cambridge, a living allowance, visa fees, round-trip airfare between the United States and the United Kingdom, a $500 Travel Award, and the possibility of an additional $2,000 Special Research Grant.

As of 2012, the schools with the most Churchill Scholars are:[1]

School Number of Scholars
Princeton University 41
Harvard University 38
Duke University 25
Cornell University 21
Yale University 21
California Institute of Technology 21
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 20
Harvey Mudd College 16
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 14
Johns Hopkins University 14
Brown University 12
University of Chicago 12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11
Purdue University 11
Stanford University 11
University of Rochester 11
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 11
Northwestern University 10
Carnegie Mellon University 9
Vanderbilt University 9

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