Ellie Bothwell reported for Times Higher on this year’s successful US Programme students

British state school students from low- and middle-income backgrounds have won funded places at US universities via a programme aimed at encouraging academically talented students of limited means to consider studying in America.

The Sutton Trust, with the help of corporate sponsors and other donors, has enabled 58 of the 175 state school pupils who participated in its 2014 US summer programme to study for undergraduate degrees in the US.

The cohort will take up places at 39 different institutions, including 19 Ivy League universities, across 18 states.

Seven of the students received prestigious merit scholarships, including the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Woodruff Scholarship at Emory University.

Read her full report here.