In Addition To His Military Honors and Decorations, McCain Was Granted A Number Of Civilian Awards And Honors

In 1997, Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most Influential People in America". McCain was awarded multiple honorary degrees from American and foreign colleges and universities. Colgate University (LL.D 2000), The Citadel (DPA 2002), Wake Forest University (LL.D May 20, 2002), the University of Southern California (DHL May 2004, Northwestern University (LL.D June 17, 2005), Liberty University (2006), The New School (2006), and the Royal Military College of Canada are among them (D.MSc June 27, 2013). In 2005, Trinity College Dublin named him an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society.

The USS John S. McCain, which was initially dedicated in the senator's father and grandfather's names, was renamed in his honor on July 11, 2018. After the senator's passing in August 2018, the Phoenix City Council unanimously decided to rename Terminal 3 of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in his honor, and it officially opened on January 7, 2019. The Kyiv City Council changed the name of a roadway that had been named after NKVD agent Ivan Kudria to "John McCain Street" on April 4, 2019.