The new class includes students from 20 different colleges and universities, including the first ever Rhodes Scholars from Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia and Pepperdine University, California.

A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year.

A Chesapeake student and fourth-year graduate student at the University of Virginia has been named a Rhodes Scholar. It’s a rare achievement in the academic world, an opportunity to study at the University of Oxford in England.