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Sainsbury Management Fellowships

Scheme open for applications

Deadline 19 September 2022, 5:00pm

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About the scheme

The Sainsbury Management Fellowship (SMF) scheme, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, is the MBA scholarship scheme of the Engineers in Business Fellowship. The scheme enables engineers of high career potential to undertake a full time MBA, at major international business schools.

The overall aim of SMF is to develop UK engineers as industry leaders, and to improve the economic performance of UK businesses by providing a resource of highly motivated engineers with a first-class business education, in an international environment.

Since 1987, the scheme has supported more than 375 engineers.

Sainsbury Management Fellows have an excellent track record in securing leadership roles in UK industry and have made a major contribution to the UK’s economic prosperity.

For more information about this subject, please contact Lauren Pattle.

lauren.pattle@raeng.org.uk

 

  • 180 fellows have founded or co-founded one or more businesses, with a total value of over £4.8bn, and the creation of over 20,000 jobs
  • Over 300 businesses that were created by fellows are still thriving today
  • Over 250 fellows have helped further develop some of the UK’s largest corporations, enhancing economic wealth
  • Over 70 Fellows are repeat entrepreneurs, establishing multiple businesses

Engineers in Business Fellowship

Awardee benefits

Successful candidates will receive:

  • £50,000 to be used towards an eligible, full-time MBA
  • Access to Royal Academy of Engineering opportunities and network groups
  • The chance to engage in EiBF activities, to support future generations of engineers

Preparing to apply

Applications can be submitted at anytime (even before having a place at business school), however, applicants will only be invited to interview once they have a confirmed place. If you would like to register your interest in applying for a Sainsbury Management Fellowship in the future, please contact the Higher Education team for future updates about the scheme. In your email, please let us know what business schools you are considering and when you are thinking about applying. 

To find out about where an MBA could take you, read the case studies of previous awardees. 

Eligible business schools and courses

Fellowships are tenable for full time MBA courses only. The scheme does not support part-time, distance learning, or executive MBA courses.

Our eligible business schools are:

In North America:

Harvard Business School

Sloan School of Management - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University – Graduate School of Business

Wharton - University of Pennsylvania

Columbia Business School

Kellogg School of Management – NorthWestern University

Booth School of Business - The University of Chicago

In Europe:

INSEAD - France and Singapore

IMD Switzerland

Imperial College Business School

Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus University, Netherlands

IESE Business School – University of Navarra, Spain

SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy

HEC in France

 

Sainsbury Management Fellowship Funding Pledge

On acceptance of a Sainsbury Management Fellowship (SMF), Fellows are expected to pledge their support to the work of the SMFs. You can view the Pledge here:

SMF Pledge

"The beauty of the SMF network is that there is always somebody who knows something about what you need to know."

Henning von Spreckelsen, SMF.

"An important lesson I learnt at business school was to embrace people and their ideas, and to [not] be afraid of failure."

Kofoworola Agbaje, SMF

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