Looking to tap Indian talent and nurture them as its future leaders, South Korean consumer giant Samsung will offer scholarships to those pursuing management and masters studies in Korean universities.
The company has announced its 'Global Scholarship Program' for Indian students to study MS and MBA at universities in Korea, besides providing an opportunity to work with the company in the country.
"Based on our confidence in Indian talent, we have made the Samsung GSP program for India the largest amongst all Samsung subsidiaries where it is being made available. We are enhancing the scope of the GSP program this year," Samsung South-West Asia President and CEO H B Lee said.
Its fully paid scholarship programme, include MS programme for undergraduate engineering students at Seoul National University and MBA programme at the Sung Kyun Kwan University.
Based on the availability of candidates meeting with the required criteria, India would be sending eight candidates against the total GSP allocation of 20 seats this year, across both the programmes, he added.
Apart from India, the global scholarship programme is being run across China, Russia, Brazil and Africa.
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Our Global Scholarship programme at the Seoul National University seeks to cultivate global leaders for research and development in the field of computer science, electronics and computer engineering," Lee said.
The company has been running the programme at SKK University since 2000 and has sent 14 students so far. The GSP for engineering students was instituted in the 2004 and so far 13 students have been supported by Samsung.