INSEAD administers this endowed scholarship, established by the AMPA Foundation with support from Luc Van Schil MBA’81. It supports qualifying candidates entering INSEAD’s one-year, full-time MBA, whose starting campus is Fontainebleau or Singapore. Two scholarships are awarded each year.
The award seeks to increase representation of Sub-Saharan African participants. The donor hopes recipients will later support entrepreneurship and investment in African SMEs through the AMPA Foundation’s advisory network.
Benefits & funding
- Each award is worth at least €30,000.
- Two scholarships are awarded each year.
- The stated amount is partial support; the official page does not describe a full-cost package.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be nationals of one of these Sub-Saharan African countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, or Zimbabwe.
- Applicants must have spent a substantial part of their lives and completed part of their prior education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Applicants must require financial assistance.
- Applicants must have been admitted to the INSEAD MBA or already submitted an MBA application.
- INSEAD does not make an undergraduate degree compulsory for MBA admission; applicants without one need an excellent career record and GMAT score. INSEAD also states that MBA admission has no age limit and publishes no hard work-experience minimum.
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Eligible nationalities
Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cabo Verde · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire
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DR Congo · Djibouti · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · South Sudan · Tanzania · Togo · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe
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Application process
- 1Submit the INSEAD MBA application through Application Online.
- 2After submitting the MBA application, access the scholarship form in the same platform.
- 3Select this scholarship among up to four scholarship choices and complete the required fields.
- 4Submit the scholarship application by the deadline for the relevant round.
- 5The Scholarship Committee reviews merit, financial need, and scholarship-specific eligibility, then communicates the decision by email.
Program timeline
22 October 2026, 23:59 CET
Round 1 scholarship deadline for the August 2027 intake.
Round 1 scholarship decision notification.
27 November 2026
MBA intake begins.
August 2027