AU’s MBA scholarship program helps make your goal of an international business career a reality. AU offers a number of partial-tuition scholarships for MBA applicants. Every year, there are also a limited number of prestigious full-tuition scholarships available.
Scholarships are allocated based on many factors including but not limited to; academic excellence, personal and professional achievement, particularly strong leadership potential, and superior interpersonal skills. MBA scholarships are restricted to self-funded candidates and are applied directly to the applicant’s tuition.
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.“
-Nelson Mandela
Challenge
The connection between conflict and poverty is a serious concern for the international community. Peace breeds stability within communities, giving people the opportunity to raise themselves out of poverty, according to The Economist magazine. Education promotes personal agency, giving a person the ability to pursue improvements in the quality of his or her own life and the lives of his or her family. According to CFTC, those who receive better education are more equipped to obtain gainful employment, giving them better personal agency.
Problem
The education systems in under developed countries splits into two tiers, with high-quality private education available only to the wealthy minority and low-quality public education the sole option for most citizens. Such a trend would turn education into a “means of perpetuating social stratification and poverty” rather than a means of increasing social equality.
Fact
A high-quality American College degree is a valuable commodity especially for students in under developed countries, so whatever their interests, chances are they will be able to pursue them if they study for American College degree.
Solution
Creating a Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund; Austin University Empowering All (AUSEA)
AUSEA is a Regional Scholarships and Innovation Fund for Under Graduate and Graduate programs in many areas including but not limited to; Information Technology Management (ITM), Clean Energy Management (CEM) and Food Security Management (FSM). Applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa are eligible to apply for this scholarship.
AUSEA aims to provide the ecosystem necessary to nurture its scholars during their program and continue to create the support system for them after graduation. It aims to address systemic gaps in skills and knowledge in targeted countries’ priority Business and science fields and to build the capacity of their education and training institutions to train high-quality technicians, engineers, and scientists to meet the demands of the economy.
Course Level: Scholarships are available to pursue the Master degrees.
Scholarship Award: The program provides financial support for up to 2 years of the Master program at Austin University. The amount of the scholarship package will go towards tuition, research funding for the program supervisor and scholarship administration as well as the expenses such as travel to/from home country, medical insurance, living expenses, etc.
Number of Scholarships: 1,000 scholarships (500 male and 500 female) will be awarded in 10 years period for academically accepted students presenting over 100 countries. There is a plan to increase the number of scholarship recipients in the future.
Value: up to $42,000 each (Includes funding covering the program fees, living and travel expenses to selected applicants).
Applicants must fulfill certain requirements. For more information, please click here
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
At Austin University, we believe that high-quality higher education will help end terrorism, extremism, poverty and unemployment.
Without the displacement and economically ravaging effects of conflict, people affected by poverty are less likely to fall further down the rabbit-hole of chronic poverty and be able to escape or avoid poverty and promote further peace.
MBA Women’s Club Scholarship
Austin University has launched the MBA Woman’s Club Scholarship; a global gender diversity campaign with the goal to increase the number of women on boards, and throughout the pipeline, and aims to develop a diverse pool of talent for all businesses through the efforts of its Chair and CEO members who are committed to better gender balance at all levels of their organizations. Business leadership is key to the MBA Woman’s Club mission, taking the issue beyond a specialist diversity effort and into mainstream talent management.
MBA Woman’s Club Scholarship is designed to addressing gender imbalance and to helping more women reach influential positions. It has been established to encourage and support outstanding women who are aspiring towards senior leadership roles.
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Value: up to $21,000
Eligibility: Female candidates who have excelled in leadership positions during their career or who have a clear path toward leadership in the future.
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
Women’s Academic Scholarship
This partial-tuition scholarship is available to female candidates for the Full-time MBA program with an exceptional record of academic excellence and a GMAT score over 700.
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Value: up to $18,000
Eligibility: All candidates with a GMAT score of over 700 are eligible. Candidates need to provide their official GMAT scores (not older than five years) and should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
Regional Scholarships
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship. Candidates will be expected to actively promote Austin University in their country throughout and after their studies, e.g. by serving as an AU mentor.
Value: up to $ 15,000
Eligibility: All candidates with a GMAT score of over 650 are eligible. Candidates need to provide their official GMAT scores (not older than five years) and should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
AU Africa Scholarship
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Eligibility: Candidates with permanent residence in any African country. Candidates are expected to prove their strong intention to promote business development and pursue professional options in Africa within a reasonable timeframe after completion of the program.
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
Value: up to $ 21,000
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
AU Americas Scholarship
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Eligibility: Candidates with permanent residence in any South, Central or North American country. Candidates are expected to prove their strong intention to promote business development and pursue professional options in Latin and/or North America
Value: up to $ 15,000
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
AU Asia Scholarship
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Eligibility: Candidates with permanent residence in a South or East Asian / Australasian country
Value: up to $ 15,000
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
AU Central and Eastern America Scholarship
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Eligibility: Candidates with permanent residence in a Central or Eastern European country: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria.
Candidates are expected to prove their strong intention to promote business development and pursue professional options in Central and Eastern America within a reasonable timeframe after completion of the program.
Value: up to $ 15,000
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.
The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
AU Middle East and Central Asia Scholarship
Number of scholarships available: Ten
Eligibility: Candidates with permanent residence in Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar.
Value: up to $ 21,000
Requirements: Candidates should complete the scholarship essay as part of their AU online application explaining how they qualify for this scholarship.The final scholarship deadline is October 31.
“If your family doesn’t have much money, I want you to remember that in this country, plenty of folks, including me and my husband. We started out with very little. But with a lot of hard work and a good education, anything is possible – even becoming President. That’s what American Dream is all about.”
– Michelle Obama, the 44th First Lady of the United States