On International Women’s Day, we are taking a moment to celebrate the inspiring women who have received our Oxford-Intesa Sanpaolo MBA Scholarship.
The prestigious Oxford-Intesa Sanpaolo MBA Graduate Scholarship, at Saïd Business School, marks its fifth anniversary this year. Providing full funding for a female scholar each year on Oxford’s MBA programme covering all fees, living costs, and if needed, the funding of childcare.
The childcare bursary makes the scholarship unusual among major MBA programmes. Where the scholarship goes to someone who does not need childcare support, that element of the funding is then made available, through Green Templeton College, to other female MBA students at the School who would benefit from it.
Amy Major, Associate Director of MBA Programme Delivery at Oxford Saïd, said: ‘We are incredibly grateful to Intesa Sanpaolo for their very generous scholarship. The unusual element, of financial support with childcare, has opened up opportunities to talented mothers who would otherwise struggle to study an MBA at Oxford. It has certainly contributed to why we are one of the few business schools in the world to have broken gender parity in this current class, at 51% female, and why we are a destination of choice for women looking to do an MBA in the UK.’