The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage graduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.  The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are at least in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.

Through the 2017-18 academic year, the Ivy League has totaled 215 athletes who have earned NCAA postgraduate scholarship, 20 of whom were former Brown student-athletes:

BROWN'S NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARS:

• Rene Abdalah, Football, 1995
• Arnold Berman, Basketball, 1972
• Christa Champion, Basketball, 1986
• Louis Cole, Football, 1978
• Adom Crew, Soccer, 2004
• Robert Forster, Football, 1979
• Chris Fox, Soccer, 1996
• Eileen Goldgeier, Lacrosse, 1985
• Nick Hartigan, Football, 2006
• Travis Holcombe, Football, 1982
• Douglas Jost, Football, 1974
• John Kelly, Jr., Football, 1965
• James Lukens, Football, 1970
• Oliver Marti, Lacrosse, 1993
• Heather McCrea, Equestrian, 2002
• Scott Nelson, Football, 1977
• Jade Newburn, Basketball, 1997
• Brian Saunders, Basketball, 1977
• William Taylor, Football, 1975
• Simon Weaver, Wrestling, 1995