About the Scholarship

Are you a talented Australian,  passionate about this country and with the desire  to contribute to its  future? Then you should apply for The Cranfield Australian Alumni Scholarship, which will give you the opportunity to develop world-class leadership and business skills by undertaking the intensive one-year MBA programme at Cranfield School of Management.

This Scholarship is the pre-eminent opportunity for outstanding Australians who may have  diverse work, educational and life experiences and who have the entrepreneurial and business leadership talents to benefit from the unique opportunity which the Scholarship provides, and then to contribute to Australia through their increased knowledge and skills.

We are driven by an ethos of “pay it forward”. We the alumni have benefited from our Cranfield experience and are now helping the next generation of talented Australians, who in their turn, will help those who follow.

Funded jointly by Cranfield Alumni in Australia and the Cranfield School of Management, UK, the scholarship was established in 2005 to give talented Australians the opportunity to accelerate their professional, personal and leadership development. Cranfield’s MBA programme was rated in the top three globally by the Wall Street Journal in its survey of the intensive one-year MBA programmes—“Fast Path to the Fast Track”.

 

How this Scholarship is distinctive

The Cranfield Australian Alumni Scholarship is distinctly different from other notable scholarships available to Australians for overseas study, for example, the Rhodes, Menzies, Fulbright and Sir John Monash scholarships. All of these excellent scholarships have a strong research and academic focus emphasis and eligibility criteria and are oriented to post-graduate level research candidates.

By contrast, the Alumni’s aim for CAASF is not for theoretical or research-based study—rather we see our scholarship as complementing the important endeavours of those other scholarships.

Our aim for scholars is the acquisition and then practical application of knowledge as management and leadership and so our emphasis is to identify and develop candidates with business management, leadership or entrepreneurial talent. Thus the scholarship is open to applicants who may not have completed an undergraduate degree, but have demonstrated through exceptional work track record that they have the intelligence, talent and persistence to do well.

Perhaps one day we will see Cranfield Scholars commercialising research discoveries made by Monash and Menzies scholars!