Switzerland

IMD, Switzerland offers Van Oord scholarship for masters student from developing gountries to study MBA in Switzerland

You are a talented social entrepreneur or working for an NGO in an emerging country. You would like a top international MBA to expand your horizons so that you can go back and make a difference.

To facilitate access to Master's degrees by students with qualifications from foreign universities, the University of Lausanne makes available around ten Master's grants which are awarded on a competitive basis.

Each year IMD MBA Future Leaders Scholarships award three scholarships to candidates who demonstrate leadership understanding through an essay competition.

The Graduatu Institute Geneva award several scholarships to Master and PhD students based on academic merit and financial need.

There are three categories of scholarship:

Introduction:
Redesigned in collaboration with CEOs and HR Directors across Europe, BuAdd Newsiness School Lausanne's new MBA aims to develop future leaders equipped to address tomorrow's business challenges. BSL is ranked in the top fifth of the QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009 listing.

The Faculty of Economics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana Switzerland, opens a PhD position in Quantitative Finance with applications in Asset Pricing, starting in Spring 2009.

The Sawiris Scholarships promote doctoral research for the benefit of developing countries. The projects have to be innovative and develop a method or product, which is directly relevant for improving the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.

The application procedure varies depending on the relationship that the doctoral candidate has with the ETH Zurich.

In a special allocation programme, the Swiss government, through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS) is offering 15 - 20 scholarships for students from Central and Eastern Europe for the 2009-2010 academic year. These scholarships are intended for postgraduate students (those who have a school-leaving diploma from a university/college).