QS Scholarship Winners Announced

By QS Contributor Updated Aug 22, 2014

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QS Scholarship winners announced
QS Leadership Scholarship – One award of US$10,000
QS Community Scholarships – Four awards of US$2,000

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Community and Leadership Scholarships worth US$20,000 have been awarded to five MBA students.

QS Scholarship winners announced

US$20,000 Community and Leadership Scholarships awarded to five MBA students.

The eagerly-awaited results of the 2009 QS Leadership and Community Scholarships have finally been announced after the QS panel of experts reached a conclusion after several weeks of deliberation. The scholarships are an annual award by QS, the career and education specialists who put on the QS World MBA Tour, TopMBA.com, the TopMBA Career Guide and QS Scorecard, to a total of US$20,000.

In recent years QS Scholarship winners, all of whom became eligible by attending a World MBA Tour fair and submitting an essay detailing why their leadership skills or social responsibility makes them great candidates, have come from more than a dozen countries. They are attending an equally various number of top business schools all around the world.
Nunzio Quacquarelli, managing director of QS, says: “We’ve been very pleased with the response to the scholarships this year. During these recessionary times, scholarships are more and more important to MBA candidates and students. QS focusses on finding candidates who have developed interesting leadership or community-based careers of products which we feel reflects a strong movement towards socially responsible business leadership for the future.”

QS Leadership Scholarship – One award of US$10,000

Yan Qiu: Yan, from China, is the winner of the exclusive QS Leadership Award worth $10,000, the biggest award on offer. An accountant and business control specialist, Yan Qiu swaps mergers and acquisitions for the Washington-Olin University in St. Louis.

QS Community Scholarships – Four awards of US$2,000

Jinho Lee: When encountering a challenge, Jinho Lee simply asks “Why not?” That philosophy has seen him successfully change the way business is done in his organization. In 2010, Jinho will graduate from Wharton.

Kelly Chavez: Involved in a local non-profit food program, Food for All, in Washington DC, Kelly will head to Europe for her MBA studies at ESADE Business School in Barcelona.

Kunal Guha: Throughout his career Kunal’s been a student, teacher, marketer and educator. Now the Indian MBA student studies at Cambridge Judge Business School in the UK.

Brittany Sanders: With a passion for mathematics and a flair for tutoring, American Brittany candidate finishes her studies at Carnegie Mellon in 2010.

Zoya Zaitseva, Global Operations Director at QS, and in charge of the QS Scholarships Fund, says: “The quality of the essays and responses that we get each year is very good and proves what a diverse range of talent there is applying to business schools at the World MBA Tour. No matter how many applications we receive, it is always difficult to find the really outstanding essays. But we’ve finally managed it and we are very pleased with the five winners that have been selected by the panel this year.”