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QS World MBA Tour Scholarships - Applications now accepted for 2008
As part of our mission to provide information and access to business schools and postgraduate programs, the QS World MBA Tour and QS World Grad School Tour are pleased to offer over US$1.200.000 in scholarship funding for selected applicants from around the world who attended the QS World MBA Tour or QS World Grad School Tour.
Below are details about the scholarships currently available. We are constantly working with the schools, private and public institutions, and our media partners to secure further scholarships and help more great candidates fulfill their potential.
To become eligible for one of the QS Scholarships please register for the QS World MBA Tour in a city near you. If you’ve already visited one of our Fairs, please complete the survey and apply for any of the scholarships available. To maximize your chances of being awarded a scholarship please complete the survey and application as completely as possible.
• QS Leadership Scholarship, worth US$10,000
• QS Community Scholarships five awards, US$2,000 each (US$10,000 in total)
• QS World Grad School Tour Innovation Scholarship, worth US$10,000
• The Wharton School Scholarship, worth US$30,000
• Chicago GSB Scholarship, worth US$40,000
• Two IE Business School Female Scholarships, worth €22,500 each
• Three Ashridge Business School Scholarships worth £19.500 in total
• MIP Scholarships, worth €500,000
• Toronto – Rotman Scholarship to one international candidates worth US$35,000
• Nyenrode Scholarship will vary from €10,000 up to €28,000
• Cass Business School in London offers 6 scholarships worth a total of £93,000
In 2007, winners of the QS Scholarships, selected from 700 applicants, included:
Juan José Ospina, from Colombia, who was awarded the QS World MBA Tour Leadership Scholarship after revolutionizing the Worker’s Cooperative of Colombian Coffee Growers, by investing their revenue in the coffee futures market and benefiting the families of 500,000 workers in that country. He visited the QS World MBA Tour in Bogota and is now studying at Chicago GSB.
William Morgan, from the UK, who attended the QS World MBA Tour in London and has commenced a one-year MBA with ESADE in Barcelona. He was awarded a QS World MBA Tour Community Scholarship after working with disadvantaged children in Chile, for Macmillan Cancer Relief and for a small charity called London 21.
South Korea’s Soo Ah Lee, who attended the QS World MBA Tour in Seoul, was accepted to MIT’s Sloan School of Management for Fall 2007. She won a QS World MBA Tour Community Scholarship.
The QS World MBA Tour Community Scholarship will help Bulgarian Nadejda Gountcheva, who attended our Fair in Sofia, to do her MBA at INSEAD.
And the last QS World MBA Tour Community Scholarship winner, Monisha Saran, an Indian-American, became involved in race relations at a young age during high school. She used her skills and motivation to create a state-wide initiative to improve race relations for diverse California public schools, and has been involved in several race relations initiatives ever since.
