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.

Each year, just 32 college students in the United States are bestowed the honor of becoming a Rhodes Scholar. For the first time in over five decades, a student from Coe College in Cedar Rapids has made that prestigious list!

Four of the recipients are from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, the most selected from the service academy in one year since 1959. Others include the first Rhodes scholars