Deadline: 27 September 2017
The Stanford University is accepting applications for its Knight-Hennessy Scholars program that is designed to build a multidisciplinary community of Stanford graduate students dedicated to finding creative solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
Program Structure
- Leadership Development: Building on departmental programs, scholars will learn to communicate, collaborate, and innovate with their fellow Knight-Hennessy Scholars from other disciplines.
- Mentorship: Knight-Hennessy Scholars will have the opportunity to spend time with established leaders in both informal and formal settings.
- Experiential Learning: The pace of scholars’ graduate studies will be intense. Given the demands on their time, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program will provide a flexible array of activities – community experiences, group workshops, meetings with leaders in their field, and personal development opportunities comprising the King Global Leadership Program.
Benefits
- Full funding includes tuition, stipend, graduate program and related academic expenses, with additional financial support available.
- Pursue any graduate degree at Stanford, from PhDs in arts, education, engineering, humanities, or social sciences to professional degrees in business, law, or medicine.
- Build skills in leadership and communication that will empower applicants to work across disciplines and to scale creative solutions for complex challenges.
- Students who earned a bachelor’s degree in 2013 or later are eligible to apply to the pioneer class of Knight-Hennessy Scholars.
Eligibility Criteria
- Stanford University encourages applications to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program from citizens of all countries.
- Applicants are eligible to apply to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program if they are applying to enroll in a full-time graduate degree program at Stanford (for example, but not limited to, JD, MA, MBA, MD, MS, or PhD) or if they plan on pursuing one of Stanford’s many joint- and dual- graduate degree options (for example, but not limited to, MD+PhD, JD+MA, MBA+MS).
- Applicants are eligible to apply to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program if they apply within four years, and enroll within five years, after they earn their first/bachelor’s degree.
- Beyond the eligibility requirements listed above, applicants are eligible for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program as long as they meet the requirements of the Stanford graduate program(s) that they wish to pursue. They must complete the entire application process for their department – including any standardized test that their discipline requires (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc.) and, if needed, an English proficiency test.
How to Apply
Eligible applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program.