The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program at Stanford University cultivates a diverse, multidisciplinary community of emerging leaders from around the world and guides them to collaborate, innovate, and communicate as they prepare to address the complex challenges facing society. Through the King Global Leadership Program, scholars will broaden knowledge, develop skills, and strengthen character, as scholars will go through community experiences, workshops, meetings with leaders, domestic and global study trips, and personal development opportunities.
Fields of study
Any full-time postgraduate subject offered at Stanford excluding:
-Honors cooperative program.
-Masters of Liberal Arts.
-Doctor of science of law(JSD).
-Current Stanford students applying for coterminal graduate study.
-Current PhD students adding an MA or MS degree in their current discipline.
Eligibility
Applicants must meet at least one of the 4 conditions:
▪︎You are applying separately but concurrently to KHS and a full-time Stanford graduate degree program such that you will start both in the same year.
▪︎You have already been offered and deferred admission to a full-time Stanford graduate degree program, and will apply to KHS such that you will start both in the same year.
▪︎You are a current Stanford graduate student who will apply to add a second full-time Stanford graduate degree program, such that you will start both KHS and the new program in the same year.
▪︎You are a current Stanford PhD student in your first year of enrollment, and will apply to KHS such that you will start KHS in your second year of PhD enrollment.
Additionally;
▪︎you must have earned, in January 2017 or later, a U.S. bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from a college or university of recognized standing.
Application process
To be considered for the scholarship, you must apply separately and concurrently to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program and to your Stanford graduate degree program.
Application deadline
11 October 2023.
The deadline for applications to your Stanford graduate degree program varies by program.
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