Description: Said Business School of the University of Oxford offers a competitive scholarship for enrolling MBA students having potentials to solve essential social and environmental issues. The Skoll MBA Scholarship supports students financially and gives opportunities to meet world-famous entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and investors.
Scholarship Provider: Said Business School at University of Oxford, UK.
Area of Study: Full-time Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
Benefits of this Scholarship:
- Full support of tuition and college fee for MBA program.
- Partial living allowance depending on need, up to an extra 8,000$.
Eligibility:
- Must have 3 years experience of running your own or any existing social venture by the time applying for the MBA.
- Must have proven documents of personal qualities associated with entrepreneurial leadership and illustrations about how these have influenced your career. The qualities are:
- Ability to persist and focus on social/environmental goals with an inclination to face failure and start again.
- Willingness towards action rather than impression.
- Disposition to analyze environment for opportunities and resource.
- Tendency to take personal and financial risks as the requirement.
- Capacity to establish networks and tie them to obtain mutual goals.
- Must present the contribution of business education for the betterment of the community within which they work and must explain the necessities of business degree for the development of career at this stage.
- Must provide some evidence of their motive for this scholarship through previous work experiences or personal backgrounds which prove self-financing the MBA a substantial economic burden.
How to Apply:
- Must apply in stages 1-3 of the MBA admissions process for the 2017-18 academic years.
- Tick the “Skoll Scholarship” box in the application before submission.
- If your applications are accepted, you will get a link to the scholarship online application.
- Fill up the online application and submit.
- For more information see the official website.
Deadlines-
Stage 1 admission round: 9 September 2016,
Stage 2 admission round: 28 October 2016, and
Stage 3 admission round: 6 January 2017 respectively.
Contact:
- Website: http://skollscholarship.org/