Rhodes Scholar
Elite academic recipient
A Rhodes Scholar is a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, a prestigious award funding graduate study at Oxford University.
The scholarship, established in 1902, selects students based on academic excellence, leadership, and character.
The term often appears figuratively to mean someone exceptionally intelligent: He's no Rhodes Scholar, but he gets by.
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- excellenceOutstanding quality or merit
- globalRelating to entire world
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
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- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- achievementsaccomplishment, achievement, accomplishments, achievements, triumph
- Notable AlumniNobel laureate, valedictorian, summa cum laude, magna cum laude, scholarship winner
- achieversachiever, high achiever, overachiever, go-getter, striver
- Overachieversgo-getter, overachiever, striver, perfectionist, valedictorian
- Academic DegreesPhD, MBA, BS, MD, JD
Rhodes Scholardropout
One who quits early
flunkie · high school dropout · dunce · underachiever · expelled student
Rhodes Scholaranti-intellectual
Opposed to educated thought