Where you can get more information about Rhodes Scholarship?

If this blog doesn't give you enough information, check out below link for more information about Rhodes Scholarship in your area.

• Rhodes Scholarship in Australia
• Rhodes Scholarship in Bermuda
• Rhodes Scholarship in Canada
• Rhodes Scholarship in Germany
• Rhodes Scholarship in  Hong Kong
• Rhodes Scholarship in India
• Rhodes Scholarship in Jamaica & Commonwealth Caribbean
• Rhodes Scholarship in Kenya
• Rhodes Scholarship in Pakistan
• Rhodes Scholarship in New Zealand
• Rhodes Scholarship in Southern Africa (including South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland)
• Rhodes Scholarship in United States
• Rhodes Scholarship in Zambia
• Rhodes Scholarship in Zimbabwe

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Interviews VDO from Experiences Rhodes Scholarship Alumni. They share good information about life in Oxford, Food and welcome message to prospective Rhodes Scholarship students
  

Interviews VDO from Rhodes Scholarship Alumni 

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Check out the list of famous and successful Rhodes Scholarship Alumni
List of Rhodes Scholarship Alumni

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How to get a Rhodes Scholarship?

The conditions to successfully receive a Rhodes Scholarship is not global. Different countries should have different criteria.


However, 4 criteria have been used since the beginning of the scholarship. You must strongly pursue 4 Rhodes Scholarship standards, which have been the template for selecting candidate since the beginning of the scholarship, as the following.

1. literary and scholastic attainments;
2. energy to use one’s talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports;
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.

Secondly, you must be a citizen of 14 specified countries where the Rhodes Scholarship are currently supported. Those countries are Australia | Bermuda| Canada| Germany| Hong Kong| India| Jamaica & Commonwealth Caribbean| Kenya| New Zealand| Pakistan| Southern Africa (South Africa and neighbours Botswana| Lesotho| Malawi| Namibia and Swaziland| USA| Zambia| and Zimbabwe.

Different countries has limited number of student allocation each year. For example, USA has 32 scholarships and Canada has 11 and Southern Africa has 10 scholarship each year. Number of allocation as of 2011 are shown below.


Australia -- 9
Bermuda -- 1
Canada -- 11
Newfoundland -- 1
Germany -- 2
Hong Kong -- N/A
India -- 6
Jamaica -- 1
Kenya -- 2
New Zealand -- 3
Pakistan -- 1
Southern Africa -- 10
USA -- 32
Zambia & Zimbabwe -- 3

What is Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest international graduate scholarship program in the world. It is named after Cecil Rhodes, a successful businessman from England and the founders of the biggest diamond company De Beers. The scholarship was established after Cecil passed away in 1902.

The Rhodes Scholarship offers a scholarship to international student all over the world to study in the graduate or postgraduate level at the university of Oxford in England. The tuition supported by Rhodes trust.

Other than being the oldest scholarship,  Rhodes Scholarship is also the "world's most prestigious scholarship" guarantee by many reliable sources.


There are approximately 7,000 people all over the world who have been graduated by Rhodes Scholarship since its beginning. Many other countries set up similar scholarships later on to honor their great people or instituion such as Kennedy Scholarship in USA etc.