Scholarship Program For Postgraduate Students at University of Oxford Skoll ( Fully-funded) 2023.

 For new MBA students at the University of Oxford who are interested in finding entrepreneurial solutions to pressing social and environmental problems, there is the Skoll Scholarship. The Scholarship offers financial support and unique chances to network with well-known businesspeople, thinking leaders, and investors.

The Skoll Scholarship offers funding for entrepreneurs who have started or have been involved in business ventures with a social mission or who have chosen an impact career and who wish to increase their understanding of market-oriented procedures so they can be more successful in their upcoming efforts to bring about social change.

The scholarship is offered in recognition that the cost of an MBA may be prohibitive for some students, especially those who want to engage in fields with a greater social impact or innovation other than purely commercial or public sectors.

About Oxford University

Oxford University is a distinctive and storied organization and is the first university in the English-speaking world. Although there is no precise date of establishment, teaching was present at Oxford in some capacity as early as 1096. It then quickly advanced after Henry II forbade English students from enrolling at the University of Paris in 1167.

Objective and Advantages of the Skoll Scholarship at Oxford University

• The Skoll Scholarship offers funding for entrepreneurs who have started or have been involved in business ventures with a social mission or who have chosen an impact career and who wish to increase their understanding of market-oriented procedures so they can be more successful in their upcoming efforts to bring about social change.
• The scholarship offers privileged opportunities to network with well-known businesspeople, thought leaders, and investors as well as access to the Skoll Scholar community, a group of leaders who are positively influencing the world via innovation and system change.
• The scholarship is offered in awareness that getting an MBA can be expensive, especially for those who want to work in the social impact or innovation fields rather than in the private or public sectors.

Qualification Standards for the University of Oxford Skoll Scholarship.

1.Entrepreneurial Activity:

• In order to have a positive social influence, you have recognized opportunities and taken appropriate action.
• You have ideally spent the last three years using entrepreneurial methods to drive change. For instance, you might have:

1. Created or expanded a social enterprise
2. OR oversaw the organization's social impact initiative's growth.
3. OR have you been addressing a particular social or environmental issue through a central theme that connects your work?

2.Impact-making with a systems change emphasis.

• You can provide evidence of the results and effects of your entrepreneurial activity.
• Your impact in your field of employment targets unfair systems and behavior.

3.Characteristics of social entrepreneurs:

• You are an agent of good change.
• You have a single-minded focus, are tenacious, and are willing to try again and again.
• You tend to favor taking action.
• You have a propensity to scout for chances and resources in your surroundings.
• You're willing to assume personal and occasionally financial risks.
• You create networks and use members to further one another's objectives
• You have firsthand experience with the issue you are attempting to solve.

4.Your career path depends on the Oxford MBA:

• You can provide evidence on why a business education is crucial at this point in developing your work or effect.

5.Need for money:

• You are in a situation where the program's fee represents a considerable financial burden.
• You can prove why you need the scholarship (for example, due to previous work experiences or personal circumstances).

Date, Procedure, and Location of the University of Oxford Skoll Scholarship Interview.

Timelines

For consideration for the Skoll Scholarship, candidates must apply to the Oxford MBA program during particular phases of the School's application rounds. The following timelines are for the 2023–24 academic year (please note that specific dates will be confirmed in due course and are subject to change):

At stages 1, 2, or 3 of the Oxford Sad MBA application process (including submitting your Skoll Scholarship essays)

Until January 4, 2023 (at the latest)

Stage 1 scholarship applications examined (candidates updated)

Nov. 20, 2022

Stage 2 scholarship applications evaluated (candidates updated)

Jan. 20, 2023

Review of Stage 3 scholarship applications and those chosen for Stages 1 and 2

April and March 2023

Candidates received the Skoll Scholarship Logistics and Reference Form.

late March 2023

Deadline for submitting the Skoll Scholarship Logistics and Reference Form

initial April 2023

interview conclusions (all candidates updated)

by mid-April 2023

Online preliminary interviews end in April 2023

Stage-ending interviews (online)

about May 2023

Final judgment on the Skoll Scholarship

about May 2023

Application Deadline

January 4, 2023

How to Apply

Follow these procedures to apply for the Skoll Scholarship:

• Connect with us to express interest in the Scholarship and to stay informed about any changes to submission deadlines.
• Directly submit an application to Sad Business School for the Oxford MBA program. This must be done in either stage 1 or stage 2 of the MBA admissions process.
• Your responses to the Skoll Scholarship essay questions should be uploaded as part of your MBA application. The scholarship essay prompts are located in the MBA application's "Funding" section. We suggest giving yourself a week or so to complete the Skoll Scholarship essay prompts.
• After reviewing your application, the MBA Admissions Team will decide whether or not to accept you into the MBA program.
• Your application will be immediately submitted to the Skoll Scholarship Selection Committee once you have received notification that you have been accepted into the MBA program.
• Each level of the MBA admissions process ends with an evaluation of scholarship application materials.
• A status update on your scholarship application and whether it has advanced to the final shortlist will be provided to you promptly after each stage of MBA admission choices has been made.
• Watch for an email from the Skoll Centre with a link to the Logistics and Reference Form if you receive notification that your scholarship application has been shortlisted for consideration. To find out when to expect this email, go to the timelines below.
• You must fill out the Logistics and Reference Form after receiving the email. This is a short questionnaire to confirm your contact information (in case you are invited for an interview), how you learned about the Scholarship, and the names and contact information for your references. Please be aware that until you reach the final stages of the selection process, your references won't be contacted.

To learn more, visit UO website.

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