Awards and Scholarships

Princeton students do very well in the national scholarship and fellowship competitions. During the past 10 years, 23 Princeton undergraduates have been Rhodes Scholars. Princeton graduates represent 6.25 percent of all American Rhodes Scholars in the past decade.

The table below lists seven of the award programs open to graduates and shows the number of Princetonians who have won these scholarships over the past five years.

Awarded nationally 91–92 92–93 93–94 94–95 95-96

Churchill 10 1 0 2 1 2

Fulbright 938 9 16 14 15 13

Hertz 27 2 4 1 1 1

Marshall 40 3 3 2 5 3

Mellon 95 1 6 4 5 12

NSF* 1000 26 26 30 25 27

Rhodes 32 3 5 1 3 2

* National Science Foundation