KTJ Alumni Awarded Rhodes Scholarship

Adnan Zikri Ja’afar, recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship.

Recently, two University of Pennsylvania seniors were awarded prestigious Rhodes scholarship for graduate study at University of Oxford. One of them is an alumnus from Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar, Adnan Zikri Ja’afar, who graduated from KTJ in 2014.

He is currently enrolled in Hunstman Program in International Studies in Business while majoring in finance, statistics and international studies with a minor in Mathematics, Economics and Philosophy. At Oxford, Adnan will be pursuing a master’s degree in evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation, along with master’s in Financial Economics.