The Morehead-Cain Foundation has announced the 2017 class of Moorehead-Cain Scholars.

The oldest merit scholarship program in the United States covers all expenses for four years of undergraduate study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and provides a variety of summer enrichment programs, including an outdoor leadership course, public service activities in the U.S. or abroad, research opportunities, and business internships. Selected on the basis of merit and accomplishment, the 2017 class of Morehead-Cain Scholars includes twenty-three high school seniors from North Carolina, seventeen from twelve other states, one from Kenya, one from Italy, three from the United Kingdom, and three from Canada.

More than two hundred and twenty Morehead-Cain Scholars currently study at UNC and over the past ten years thirteen have won Rhodes Scholarships. Since the first class of Morehead-Cain Scholars graduated from UNC in 1957, thirty of the school's thirty-three Rhodes Scholars have been Morehead-Cain scholarship recipients.

For a complete list of Morehead-Cain Scholars for 2017, visit the Morehead-Cain Foundation Web site.