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Gates Scholarship
The Gates Cambridge Scholarships were established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 with a $210 million endowment to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge. The awardees are given funding for postgraduate study at the University for the duration of the degree. The award includes all tuition costs and a maintenance allowance, currently £13,300, and a return economy airfare. Scholars are also able to access travel funds for conferences, have exclusive use of recreational and social facilities, and participate in an annual retreat to the lake district. The first scholars arrived at Cambridge in October 2001, and the Scholarship celebrated its 10th anniversary in July 2010.
The Gates Scholarships are similar in structure to Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarships, although the Gates Scholarships are much younger and are awarded through a more centralized process. Their duration is also more flexible, as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships generally only last for two years (sometimes three). The American Scholarship is marginally less selective than the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, with Gates Scholarships offered to roughly 5% of 800 applicants each year,〔https://www.gatescambridge.org/apply/selection/how-competitive〕 in comparison to 3.7% of Rhodes applicants,〔http://now.uiowa.edu/2015/11/ui-senior-named-rhodes-scholar〕 and 3.2% of Marshall applicants.〔http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/stats2015〕 However, the international Gates Scholarships are far more competitive (1.6% of roughly 3,500 applicants).〔https://www.gatescambridge.org/apply/selection/how-competitive〕
==Eligibility and criteria==
Applicants from any country other than the United Kingdom are eligible for the scholarships. In the first 13 years of the program (2001-2013), 1236 individuals from 95 different countries have been awarded scholarships. By statute, approximately 40% of scholars are intended for citizens of the USA〔http://www.gatesscholar.org/apply/how-competitive.asp〕 (in practice, the figure has been 44.5%). Other common countries of citizenship have been Germany (5.9%), India (5.3%), Canada (4.9%), Australia (4.1%), and China (3.0%).
The Cambridge Gates Trust aims to maintain about 200 Scholars in residence at any time, and 90 Gates Scholars are elected each year from a pool of over 4500 applicants. The Trustees are required to award scholarships on the basis of a person's intellectual ability, leadership capacity and desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society throughout the world by providing service to their communities and applying their talents and knowledge to improve the lives of others. Although the Trust does not set a minimum GPA, the average GPA of Gates Scholars as of 2011 is 3.93, with a range of GPAs from 3.7 to 4.0.
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