The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for “intellectually distinguished young Americans and their country’s future leaders” to check at any college within the United Kingdom. It is broadly thought of one of the prestigious scholarships for U.S. residents, and together with the Fulbright Scholarship, it’s the solely broadly available scholarship accessible to Americans to check at any college within the United Kingdom.
Created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1953 as a residing reward to the United States in recognition of the generosity of Secretary of State George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan within the wake of World War II, the objective of the scholarship was to strengthen the Special Relationship between the 2 nations for “the good of mankind in this turbulent world.” The scholarships are awarded by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and are largely funded by the British authorities. The program was also the first major co-educational British graduate scholarship; one-third of the inaugural cohort in 1954 were women.
With almost 1,000 college endorsed and chosen candidates in recent times, it’s among the many most selective graduate scholarship for Americans, with an acceptance charge of round 4 per cent, and as little as 3.2 per cent in 2015.
There are over 1,900 Marshall Scholar alumni. Many of those alumni have achieved distinctions and maintain prestigious careers. In the Federal authorities, present alumni embrace two of the 9 present Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (Neil Gorsuch and Stephen Breyer), and the Director of the CIA, William Joseph Burns. Other alumni have been members of Congress and the presidential cupboard; state governors; CEOs of corporations resembling LinkedIn and Dolby Labs; deans of Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard College; and presidents of Duke University, Wellesley College, the Cooper Union, and Caltech.
They additionally embrace one Nobel Laureate, one winner of the Kluge Prize, 4 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, two winners of the John Bates Clark Medal, twelve MacArthur Genius Grant awardees, the president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the managing editors of Time journal and CNN, the worldwide information editor of The New York Times, NASA’s youngest astronaut, two Oscar nominees, one winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and one awardee of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service throughout the Iraq War.
