Davis United World College Scholars Program

The Davis United World College Scholars Program awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 94 select partner universities in the United States. The Program is the largest international scholarship program for undergraduates in the world, and the Davis family's contributions to the United World Colleges (UWC) movement are the largest ever made by a single donor to international education.1 Shelby Davis, the scholarship's namesake, is an investor whose largest fund, Davis New York Venture, was named to the Forbes Honour Roll for mutual fund investments; he is the son of Shelby Cullom Davis.

Davis co-founded the scholarship program in 2000 along with Phil Geier, former President of UWC-USA. Once UWC graduates enrol in one of the Program's partner U.S. colleges or universities, the Program provides financial support for their undergraduate educations through institutional grants that support need-based scholarships. Originally, the scholarship was offered to students matriculating at one of five colleges in the United States: the College of the Atlantic, Middlebury College, Colby College, Wellesley College and Princeton University. The network of eligible universities has since grown to 95.[1]

The scholarship is unusual as it is restricted to students who have already faced heavy competition, in their penultimate year of high school, to be accepted to, and to complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at, one of the 19 schools or colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement. UWC is an educational movement including 19 sixth form colleges (upper-level secondary schools) and full schools located throughout the world that educate international students from 160 countries, with a focus on peace and sustainability.[2] The schools and colleges offer partial and full scholarships permitting talented students of all socio-economic backgrounds to attend.

Participating universities

Names marked with an asterisk signify the original five universities.

  1. Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA)
  2. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
  3. Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
  4. Barnard College (New York, NY)
  5. Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
  6. Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
  7. Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
  8. Brown University (Providence, RI)
  9. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
  10. Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
  11. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
  12. Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
  13. Clark University (Worcester, MA)
  14. Colby College* (Waterville, ME)
  15. Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
  16. College of the Atlantic* (Bar Harbor, ME)
  17. College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
  18. College of Idaho (Caldwell, ID)
  19. College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
  20. Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
  21. Columbia University (New York, NY)
  22. Connecticut College (New London, CT)
  23. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
  24. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
  25. Denison University (Granville, OH)
  26. Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
  27. Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
  28. Duke University (Durham, NC)
  29. Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
  30. Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
  31. Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
  32. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg. PA)
  33. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
  34. Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
  35. Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
  36. Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
  37. Hood College (Frederick, MD)
  38. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
  39. Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
  40. Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
  41. Lafayette College (Easton, PA)
  42. Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, IL)
  43. Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
  44. Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR)
  45. Luther College (Decorah, IA)
  46. Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN)
  47. Methodist University (Fayetteville, NC)
  48. Middlebury College* (Middlebury, VT)
  49. MIT (Cambridge, MA)
  50. Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
  51. New York University (New York, NY)
  52. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  53. Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
  54. Occidental College** (Los Angeles, CA)
  55. Pomona College** (Claremont, CA)
  56. Princeton University* (Princeton, NJ)
  57. Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA)
  58. Reed College (Portland, OR)
  59. Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL)
  60. San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)
  61. Sarah Lawrence College** (Bronxville, NY)
  62. Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
  63. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  64. Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
  65. Smith College (Northampton, MA)
  66. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD & Santa Fe, NM)
  67. St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
  68. St. Olaf College** (Northfield, MN)
  69. Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
  70. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
  71. Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
  72. Tufts University (Medford, MA)
  73. Union College (Schenectady, NY)
  74. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  75. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  76. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
  77. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
  78. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)
  79. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
  80. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  81. University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
  82. University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
  83. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
  84. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
  85. Wartburg College (Waverly, IA)
  86. Washington & Lee University (Lexington, VA)
  87. Wellesley College* (Wellesley, MA)
  88. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
  89. Westminster College (Fulton, MO)
  90. Wheaton College (Norton, MA)
  91. Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
  92. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
  93. Yale University (New Haven, CT)

References
  1. "The Program | Davis UWC Scholars". www.davisuwcscholars.org. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  2. "UWC". www.uwc.org. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
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