Jim-Ellert MBA Scholarship, Switzerland

Number of scholarships: One
Amount: CHF 20,000

Geographic region
Africa, Central & Eastern Europe (including all former Soviet republics), and the South-Eastern Asian Peninsula (Thailand, Myramar, Cambodia, Loas, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia)

Who can qualify
Accepted candidates who demonstrate strong financial need (with preference given to women)

Criteria
Submitting an essay on: “Why I would like to do an MBA at IMD” (maximum 500 words)

Candidates will also be considered on the basis of merit as per the quality of their admission application.

Jury: Jim Ellert (Emeritus Professor of Finance and Strategy) and the IMD MBA scholarship committee

Deadline: September 30

Contact: Scholarship essays, or questions, should be sent to mbafinance[at]imd.ch

IMD MBA scholarship conditions
Applicants must have been accepted into the IMD MBA program prior to their application.

Our scholarship applications are essay based, with winning essays typically including the following features:

Relevance to the essay title
Organization and structure
Fully developed arguments
Persuasiveness
Personal element and/or passion
IMD reserves the right not to award a scholarship if the criteria are not met to the satisfaction of the jury / sponsors.