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Donated $210 million to Cambridge University — establishing the Gates Cambridge Scholarships
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Gates donated $210 million to the University of Cambridge — the largest donation ever made to Cambridge at the time — to establish the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program. Modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship, it provides full-cost scholarships for outstanding international graduate students at Cambridge, building a global network of future leaders committed to improving lives. By 2023, more than 2,000 scholars from over 100 countries had been supported by the program across medicine, engineering, public policy, and the sciences.
Source: https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/the-scholarship/history/
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