The Skoll MBA Scholarship is now open for applications from suitably qualified students. It is a fully funded scholarship for all students sponsored by the Saïd Business School.
Brief Description
The Skoll MBA Scholarship is a competitive scholarship for incoming MBA students who pursue entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and environmental challenges.
The Scholarship provides funding and exclusive opportunities to meet with world-renowned entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and investors.
Host Institution
Said Business School at University of Oxford, UK.
Field of Study
Oxford Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
Number of Awards
Up to 4 every year.
Target Group
Home/international students.
Scholarship Value/Inclusions
The scholarship covers the full costs of tuition and college fees for the MBA program and partial living expenses based on need, up to an additional £14,985.
Eligibility
1. Entrepreneurial Action
You have identified opportunities and taken action in order to make a positive social impact.
You have spent preferably at least 3 years driving change through entrepreneurial approaches. For example, you could have:
– Started or grown a social venture.
– OR led the expansion of a social impact initiative within an organization.
– OR been tackling a specific social/environmental issue, through a core thread that unites your work.
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2. Creating impact with a focus on systems change
(a). You can show the outcomes and impact of your entrepreneurial action.
(b). Your impact addresses unjust systems and practise in your area of work.
3. Personal Qualities of a Social Entrepreneur
(a). You are a force for positive change.
(b). You are single-minded and persistent, with a willingness to fail and start again.
(c). You have bias toward action.
(d). You have a tendency to explore your environment for opportunities and resources.
(e). You have a willingness to take personal, and sometimes financial, risks.
(f). You develop networks and leverage members to pursue mutual goals.
(g). You have apprenticed with the problem* or experienced the problem you are trying to solve.
4. The Oxford MBA is critical to your career trajectory
You can show why business education is essential in helping to develop your work/impact at this stage.
5. Financial Need
(a). You are in a position where the cost of the program is a significant financial burden.
(b). You can show the need for the Scholarship (for example, because of previous work experiences or personal circumstances.
Application Deadline
January 4, 2022.
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