For Our Partners

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We are grateful to our many partners who share updates about Knight-Hennessy Scholars, encourage rising leaders to consider applying to join us, and provide support throughout the application process. This includes Stanford department colleagues, fellowship advisers, media contacts, recommenders, and more.

We have provided resources below to aid you in promoting KHS and advising applicants. If you’re connecting with us for the first time, we welcome a conversation with you to hear your insights or feedback on how we can better collaborate with you and your organization. Please call us at +1.650.721.0771 or write us at khscholars@stanford.edu.

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Overview of Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program. Each Knight-Hennessy scholar receives up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate studies at Stanford while participating in engaging experiences that prepare scholars to be visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders who address complex challenges facing the world. KHS selects up to 100 graduate students from across Stanford’s seven graduate schools each year, helping prepare scholars for leadership roles in academia, industry, government, nonprofits, and the community at large. See the 2025 cohort highlights.

Knight-Hennessy Scholars is the largest fully-endowed, university-wide graduate fellowship in the world. Citizens of any country may apply. KHS applicants must have earned their first undergraduate degree within the last seven years, and must apply to both a Stanford graduate program and to Knight-Hennessy Scholars.

Learn more about admission to KHS, or attend a KHS admission event.

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