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, 13 of whom were former Cornell student-athletes:

CORNELL'S NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARS:

• Thomas Albright, Football, 1972
• John Bayne, Jr., Soccer, 1988
• Connor Buczek, Men's Lacrosse, 2015
• Jennifer Cobb, Cross Country/Track & Field, 1992
• Kenneth Dryden, Ice Hockey, 1969
• Wendy Fiel, Softball, 1999
• Mark Fergeson, Wrestling, 1993
• Derrick Harmon, Football, 1984
• Ronald Kopicki, Football, 1968
• Ginny Ryan, Track & Field, 1995
• Randy Sprout, Swimming & Diving, 1986
• Marc Thorne, Soccer, 1997
• David Van Metre, Football, 1986