The 2026 class of American Rhodes scholars includes 32 winners, with five recipients from U.S. service academies and three apiece from Yale, Harvard and MIT. Scholars plan to pursue research at the University of Oxford on topics ranging from sustainability and housing to health outcomes and prison reentry programs. The selection highlights military-affiliated candidates’ growing presence in elite scholarship pipelines and signals continuing institutional value placed on cross-sector leadership and public-service trajectories emerging from top U.S. colleges and academies.