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QS Education Trust
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is dedicated to encouraging talented individuals to benefit from an international higher education and, to this end, has for many years provided funds towards educational scholarships for young people.
QS Education Trust - birth of a non-profit movement for international education advancement
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is dedicated to encouraging talented individuals to benefit from an international higher education and, to this end, has for many years provided funds towards educational scholarships for young people.
To formalize this charitable commitment, in 2005, QS founded QS Education Trust - a non-profit trust company - with a prime objective of providing a conduit for these scholarships and with the mission of becoming the world’s largest independent community-based provider of postgraduate scholarships:
QS Education Trust
- provides and sources education scholarships for international students.
- organises the QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education Conference, - the committee of which consists of a combination of senior university sector officers and senior staff of QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
- promotes other philanthropic and social aspects of international education on a global scale and with a special focus on Asia.
QS pivotal role in bringing together officers from universities, graduate and business schools, government and NGOs from around the world makes it uniquely placed to foster an international education community with a global outlook and to encourage the provision of merit based scholarships, with a special focus on candidates from emerging markets.
Already a major source of scholarship with ambitions to be a world leader
All QS APPLE delegate fees are paid to QS Education Trust. Each year any surplus revenues are reserved for scholarships for students entering higher education outside their home country.
The organising committee of QS APPLE is developing a role in the selection of the winners.
Over the last four years 24 individuals from all over the world have benefited from these scholarships – 8 from Asia, 3 from Latin America, 8 from Europe and 5 from North America – to support their study at prestigious institutions such as Columbia, Stanford, IESE, University of Navarra, Universita Luigi Bocconi, Cambridge and others.
QS Education Trust scholarship scheme is independent and free of any political allegiances, though we work closely with government ministries throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. The scheme is community-based because any university can offer full or partial scholarships through QS Education Trust. The only condition is that the institution should travel on the QS World Grad School Tour or QS World MBA Tour, so that we can raise awareness through our in-country advertising and promotional campaigns.
Schools already offering scholarships through the QS Education Trust community include:
- Wharton, University of Pennsylvania - USA
- University of Chicago - USA
- Instituto de Empresa - Spain
- Politecnico di Milano - Italy
- University of Geneva - Switzerland
- Ashridge Management School – UK
- Nijenrode University – Netherlands
QS Scholarships for Leadership, Community Involvement, and Innovation.
A new set of business school scholarships, launched with awards worth around US$1.3 million in 2006, drew its first winners from countries as diverse as China, Malaysia, Turkey, Chile, Italy and the USA. The scholarships, available through the QS World MBA Tour, the largest international programme of business school information events, include awards from QS for Leadership and Community Involvement.
The 2006 winner of the QS US$10,000 scholarship for Leadership was Tiffany Kanaga, a US citizen who attended the QS World MBA Tour Fair in London and who is now studying at Columbia Business School.
The five winners of QS US$2,000 scholarships for Community Involvement in 2006 were:
- Yue Tu from China
- Saul Casadio from Italy
- Sekar Shanmugan from Malaysia
- Cenap Mert T Yerzioglu from Turkey
- Eduardo Olivares from Chile.
“QS Scholarship winners are united by their demonstration of responsible leadership and community commitment, in very varied circumstances,” says Nunzio Quacquarelli, managing director of QS. “All of these young people have done something remarkable in their lives. Take, for example, Eduardo Olivares who worked as a counsellor in Chile helping people to escape severe poverty by setting up their own small businesses, and Yue Tu who cycled more than 2,500 miles across China to raise money for charity.”
