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15/07/2009

    GSE Attracts More International Students With
    Increased Scholarship Opportunities 

Thanks to the support of its sponsors, the Barcelona GSE is able to offer top students from around the world approximately 40 scholarships in the 2009-2010 academic year.

The increased availability of scholarships each year makes it possible for the GSE to attract larger numbers of top students from around the world. The 127 graduates in the Class of 2009 came from 30 different countries. As of July 15, the number of confirmed students for 2009-10 has already swelled to 173, a 36% increase in class size from last year, with students from around 40 countries. The countries outside Spain with the greatest number of students to date are Germany, Italy, Mexico, the US, China, Turkey, and Iran.

New agreements signed in spring 2009 with “la Caixa” Foundation and BBVA Foundation will add 19 full-tuition scholarships to the GSE’s previously existing 18 merit-based tuition waiver grants. In addition to covering the full tuition of the master program, the new scholarships include a monthly stipend for expenses during the student's stay in Barcelona, medical insurance, and round-trip airfare from the student's country of residence.

The partnerships that the Barcelona GSE maintains with all of the prestigious companies and institutions that sponsor scholarships at the School affirm the sponsors’ belief in the high quality of the Barcelona GSE and their vested interest in bringing top students to study in the master programs as part of their corporate social responsibility actions.

More about the new "la Caixa" Foundation and BBVA-GSE scholarships

An agreement signed in April 2009 between “la Caixa” savings bank Foundation and the Barcelona GSE set up 14 full tuition scholarships for excellent students from developing and emerging countries to study in one of the School’s master programs. These scholarships are designed to give students the opportunity to gain a top master degree so that they can later contribute to the economic growth of their native country.

The “la Caixa” Foundation scholarships are merit based, and target students from emerging and developing countries with excellent academic backgrounds who intend to work in their home countries at the end of their professional training process. By sponsoring students from these countries, “la Caixa” and the GSE affirm their commitment to attracting and training the most talented young people from around the world, and to fostering a global student community that comes from many different backgrounds and promotes an environment of mutual learning.

This initiative is a direct complement to the GSE’s other big program: the BBVA Foundation-GSE scholarships for Latin American students. Signed in March 2009, the BBVA-GSE program consists of five full tuition awards designed to bring the best and brightest Latin American students to study at the School. Two of the awards are especially for Mexican students and the other three are open to students from the rest of Latin America. Recipients of the scholarship will pursue their studies at the Barcelona GSE’s six master programs in economics and finance, where they will have ample opportunities to maximize their potential.

2009-2010 Scholarship Sponsors include:
 

		“La Caixa” Foundation is the institution which manages the resources that Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, "la Caixa", devotes to its social and cultural work. Among its priorities are cooperation with developing countries and promotion of higher education. “La Caixa”, based in Barcelona, is the leading European savings bank.
		BBVA Foundation expresses the engagement of financial group BBVA with the cause of social responsibility in the societies where it does business, and has among its priorities the promotion of excellence in scientific research and higher education. BBVA is one of the main European banks and has a very important presence in many Latin American countries.
		Repsol Foundation is the institution for corporate social responsibility of Repsol, an international integrated oil and gas company operating in over 30 countries. It is one of the ten largest private oil companies in the world and the largest private energy company in Latin America in terms of assets.
		Red Eléctrica is a corporation dedicated exclusively to power transmission and the operation of electrical systems.It operates the power grid of Spain.
		MSD, is part of Merck & Co, a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of pharmaceutical products.
		Fundación Salud Innovación Sociedad develops and supports initiatives that generate projects in biomedical innovation in Spain, in order to promote debate, knowledge transfer, and technology sharing between social, health, and economic bodies.
		Abertis is a private transport and communications infrastructure management corporation. It is one of Europe's leading infrastructure managers and one of the continent's most important groups in terms of return and financial capacity.
		Enagas is the transportation, regasification, and storage company that manages the gas system in Spain.
		Telefonica, a diversified telecommunications group, provides fixed-line telecommunications, broadband, and mobility solutions in Spain and Latin America.
		Fundación Carolina is an institution that promotes cultural relations and cooperation in education and science between Spain and the Iberoamerican community of nations as well as with other countries sharing common historical, geographic, and cultural links. More information (in Spanish) is available here about scholarships for the Master in Competition and Market Regulation. More information (in Spanish) is available here about scholarships for the Master in the Economics of Science and Innovation.
		Catalan Competition Authority is the agency of the Government of Catalonia in charge of resolving disputes arising from practices that restrict free competition.
		Patronat Catalunya Món is the agency of the Government of Catalonia responsible for advising public and private institutions in Catalonia on their international presence.
		The UAB Research Park promotes and improves the transfer of technology and knowledge from the UAB and its collaborating institutions to the business world. This scholarship is addressed to graduates of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
		Biocat is the biocluster organization funded by the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Government that acts as a catalyst and promoter of biotechnology and biomedicine in Catalonia.