Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship is an elite distinction that few Columbia students have won in recent history. Of course, the scholarship's original aim, to produce a hyper-elite of WASP superheroes to rule the British Empire, doesn't quite jive with Columbia's diverse, international student body, nor its postcolonial scholarship. Then again, though, CCNY at times actually produces more Rhodes winners than Columbia.
From 2002 to 2007, Alma Mater experienced a long losing streak. This was broken when George Olive and Jason Bello won scholarships.
You too can try your chances by going through the Fellowships Office.
Columbia Rhodes Scholars
(This is an incomplete list.)
- 2025 - Luiza Diniz Vilanova CC'24
- 2024 - Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa CC'24
- 2023 - Sophie A. Bryant CC’23, Gloria Charité CC'23, Astrid Liden CC’23, Ilina Logani CC’22, and Julia Zhao SEAS'23
- 2022 - Sydni Scott CC'22
- 2017- Nur Artfeh GS'13
- 2016- Luca Springer GS'16
- 2010 - Raphael Graybill CC'10
- 2009 - Jisung Park CC'09
- 2007 - Jason Bello CC'08 and George Olive CC'08
- 2003 - Cyrus Habib CC'03, lawyer, and Jonah Lehrer CC'03, scandal-plagued neuroscience author
- 2000 - Brandon Dammerman
- 1994 - Benjamin Jealous, President of the NAACP
- 1993 - Eric Garcetti, Mayor-elect of Los Angeles
- 1991 - Carl Marci
- 1987 - Barbara Petzen and Robert Radtke
- 1984 - Carlton Long
- 1982 - George Stephanopoulos, adviser to Bill Clinton and talk show host
- 1973 - Lyle Rexer
- 1970 - Heyward Dotson and Jeff Rudman
- 1969 - Richard G. Menaker
- 1962 - Steven Vargish
- 1960 - Thomas Vargish
- 1959 - Richard Merrill
- 1956 - Erich S. Gruen, classicist
- 1946 - James F.L.S. Matthews
