Forbes names Marshall Scholarship among the Most Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships
Forbes has named the Marshall Scholarship among the most prestigious scholarships and fellowships offered to American students. Journalist Mark Kantrowitz says that the list was created based on each scholarship or fellowships’ highly selective eligibility criteria.
Since 1953, the Mashall Scholarship has remained uniquely positioned as a transatlantic scholarship by its prestige and scope. Each year, the British government offers talented young Americans the chance to study any academic subject at UK universities of their choice for up to three years.
This opportunity has given rise to an unprecedented breadth of expertise in almost every academic field, producing numerous university presidents, six Pulitzer Prize winners, one Nobel Laureate, fourteen MacArthur Fellows, two Academy Award nominees, two Supreme Court Justices, and a NASA Astronaut.
With over 2,200 scholarships awarded to date, Marshall Scholars are leading the conversation and direction of some of the most critical issues of our time.
Notable winners of the scholarship include:
Supreme Court Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman, Jeffrey Gettleman and Dan Yergin
Reid Hoffman, Philanthropist and founder of social networking platform LinkedIn
Anne McClain, NASA Astronaut who served aboard the International Space Station in 2018
Joshua Oppenheimer, Academy Award-nominated documentary film director of The Act of Killing
Dr. Douglas Melton, Xander University Professor at Harvard University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
William Burns, Former US Deputy Secretary of State
Nancy Gibbs, Former Managing Editor of TIME Magazine
Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Ray Dolby, Inventor of Dolby Sound and former Chairman of Dolby Laboratories
R.F. Kuang, Author of the Poppy War book series and 2019 finalist for the Nebula, Locus and Campbell Awards
