2025 cohort at a glance

84 profile photos of young people, on a red background with white text above that reads "2025 Cohort, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University"

The 84 scholars in the 2025 cohort come from 25 countries, including the first scholars with citizenship from Cameroon, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Spain, Sudan, and Tunisia. They have earned degrees from 58 institutions, including 20 outside the U.S. and 20 represented for the first time. At Stanford, they will pursue graduate degrees in 46 degree programs across all seven schools.

Scholars in the 2025 cohort

48% of scholars in the 2025 cohort hold a non-U.S. passport
Out of the 2025 cohort, 53% of scholars identify as a person of color and 11% have served in the U.S. military.
18% of scholars in the 2025 cohort identify as a first-generation college graduate

25 countries of citizenship

Bangladesh
Belarus
Brazil
Cameroon*
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Germany
Ghana

Haiti*
India
Israel
Japan
Kazakhstan*
Nigeria
Peru
Philippines
South Korea

Spain*
Sudan*
Syria
Tunisia*
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam

46 Stanford degree programs

A bar chart showing a breakdown of the amount of scholars in the 2025 cohort are in each Stanford school. Stanford Graduate School of Business has 17%, Graduate School of Education has 5%, School of Engineering has 25%, School of Humanities and Sciences has 21%, Stanford Law School has 17%, School of Medicine has 26%, and Doerr School of Sustainability has 5%.

Note: Degree totals are unequal to 100% due to dual degrees.

38 U.S. undergraduate institutions

Brigham Young University*
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
California State University, Fresno*
Claremont McKenna College
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Hobart and William Smith Colleges*

Indiana University Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Lake Forest College*
Macalester College*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
Northeastern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
Syracuse University*
Tufts University
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy 

University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Montana*
University of Pennsylvania 
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Xavier University of Louisiana*
Yale University

20 non-U.S. institutions

European Humanities University*
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi*
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology*
La Salle Campus Barcelona*
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

McMaster University*
Nazarbayev University*
Peking University
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Seoul National University
Shendi University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences*

Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología*
Universidad del Rosario*
University of Bradford*
University of Ghana Medical School*
University of Haifa
University of the Philippines*

*Indicates new in 2025