QS EDHEC Business School Scholarship: 2019 Winner

We're pleased to announce that one of the winners of the 2019 QS EDHEC Business School Scholarship is Ivan Ivliev.

The scholarship, offered in partnership with EDHEC Business School for two postgraduate students every year, is worth 50 percent of tuition fees. Applicants must have been successfully admitted into EDHEC Business School for their MiM and MSc programs only. They must also have registered and attended the QS World Grad School Tour. Scholarship applicants must be able to demonstrate strong levels of academic excellence. 

We caught up with Ivan to find out how the scholarship has made a difference to his study plans.

I am studying a master's in Corporate Finance in Banking in Nice, France. While studying my final undergraduate year in Russia, I started thinking about continuing my education abroad. I was looking for a program in corporate finance, which is my topic of interest.

I chose EDHEC because this business school in general and my program particularly are highly rated by international rating agencies such as QS and Financial Times. Although I do not speak French, I was confident about choosing France as a place of living because I had been there previously and was familiar with its people and its culture.

My final reason to choose EDHEC was based on conversations I had with the representative of the business school in Russia, Julia Dubina, who explained to me the benefits of studying at EDHEC.

I know I will receive not only theoretical but also practical knowledge here, which will help me in my future career. Besides education, my goal was to enrich my experience by living in a foreign country and interacting with people from different regions of the world in order to understand the difference between Russian culture and European culture.

I believe this knowledge will help me not only in my career but in every aspect of my life since the world is becoming more globalised every day.

In terms of a future career, I am confident this education will give me access to working in Europe, which would be hard to achieve after graduating in Russia.