Social impact Scholarship Program
in partnership with RISEUP

scholarship description

Central to Agora School of Business is our commitment to creating a platform for students to learn how businesses can create socioeconomic and environmental impact that elevates communities and serves the needs of society. The Social Impact Program (SIP) is designed to equip our students with the business tools, industry collaboration, and mentorship to advance their ideas and projects into sustainable success and growth.

SCHOLARSHIP AND MENTORSHIP

  • As part of our commitment to enabling our students to do good and to do well, ASB is offering 1 full scholarship for the ASB MBA program covering tuition only.
  • Along with the scholarship, students enrolled into the program will be granted the opportunity to meet with faculty and industry partners to be mentored through SIP’s Social Innovation Practicum, where students immerse themselves in a social issue of common concern and develop a business model in response.

Eligibility

  • The Social Impact Scholarship is aimed at enabling budding entrepreneurs from economically-challenged communities who aspire to build their dream project to have a socioeconomic and environmental imprint that elevates communities and serves the needs of society.
  • Only available for applicants from the Arab Republic of Egypt.
  • Qualifying candidates must apply for the ASB Social Impact Program prior to their enrolment as MBA students.
  • Candidates must showcase their commitment to social impact as part of their application submission to the program or be members of initiatives or projects already making a positive impact to their societies.

Requirements

To be eligible for our SIP scholarship, you are required:

    • To be a full-time MBA student
    • To submit the last 3-month payment slip/ HR letter stating your monthly salary and all other variables (bonus, profit share and similar)
    • To hold a bachelor’s degree
    • To have shown incredible extracurricular activities
    • Submit a project idea that serves the socio-economical and environmental domain in Egypt