Churchill Scholarship

Sir Winston Churchill

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 participating in the Churchill Scholarship Program, to pursue research and study in engineering, mathematics, or other sciences for one year at the University of Cambridge. Churchill Scholars live at 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 decided 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 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 fees at the University of Cambridge, a living allowance, and round-trip airfare between the United States and the United Kingdom.

As of 2011, the ten schools with the most Churchill Scholars are:

School	Number of Scholars
Princeton University	40
Harvard University	37
Duke University	24
Cornell University	21
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign	20
Yale University	20
California Institute of Technology	19
Michigan State University	17
Harvey Mudd College	16
University of Chicago	12
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill	12

External links

• The Winston Churchill Foundation