The scholarships are available exclusively to attendees of the QS World MBA Tour, which travels with a total of over 350 business schools to 43 countries and is the largest programme of b-school events worldwide. Awards include the QS scholarships for Leadership and Community Involvement as well as those from the major business schools.

The winners of the QS scholarships, all of whom attended the QS World MBA Tour in their home countries, are:

· Juan José Ospina, a Colombian citizen who will be studying at Chicago GSB;

· Hervé David Gregoire from France, awaiting a decision from Stanford GSB

· Monisha Saran from USA, who has accepted a place at Wharton in May 2007;

· Soo Ah Lee from South Korea, who will study at MIT from September 2007;

· Nadia Gountcheva from Bulgaria, applied successfully to INSEAD in Paris;

· William Morgan from the UK who began his MBA at ESADE in March 2007.

“QS Scholarship winners are united by their demonstration of responsible leadership and community commitment, in very varied circumstances,” says Nunzio Quacquarelli, the Managing Director of careers and education group QS. “All of these young people have done something remarkable in their lives. Take, for example, Juan José Ospina who, by learning about the futures market and formulating trading and hedging strategies, played a part in revolutionising the very conservative coffee industry in Colombia. Or Hervé David Gregoire who made a successful proposal to the Energy Minister of the Congo to bring solar power to a huge under-privileged, rural area of the country that would become cost-effective within three years.”

The Chicago GSB Scholarship has been awarded to Ukranian Konstantine Magaletskyi. Rose Martinelli of Chicago GSB says, “Konstantine was undoubtedly the best qualified and most deserving of the QS World MBA Tour Applicants for the Chicago GSB scholarship.” Konstantine has a GMAT score of 740 and worked as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte and Touch CIS before accepting his MBA place.

Potential MBA students have a great opportunity to apply for the next round of scholarships when the World MBA Tour arrives in a city near them. After attending the Fair, applicants apply to a business school of their choice and support their application with a written document showing the reasons why they deserve the award.

The US schools travelling on the Tour include: Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Kellogg, Michigan, Stanford, Tuck, UCLA and Wharton. From Europe, participants include; SDA Bocconi and MIP Politecnico di Milano from Italy, HEC and INSEAD from France, IESE, ESADE and IE from Spain, IMD from Switzerland, Rotterdam from the Netherlands and London Business School, Manchester, Bath, Cambridge, Cranfield, Imperial, Oxford and Warwick from the UK. At each location, leading local MBA providers also take part.