Equinix Sustainability Scholarship

Financial Aid Type: Scholarships, Donors
Nationality: Singapore Citizen, Permanent Resident, Foreigner
Student Type: Current Students

About the Financial Award

Established in 2021, the Equinix Sustainability Scholarship is available to full-time undergraduates at the Singapore Management University.  It is aimed at motivating outstanding undergraduates who want to expand their learning across traditional academic disciplines by taking on a major in Sustainability, offered by the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) at the Singapore Management University, to achieve academic excellence and to accord appropriate recognition to the scholarship recipients for their accomplishments.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Full-time undergraduates proceeding to third year of study in the year of award
  • Achieved good academic results (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.40)
  • Declared a Sustainability-related major offered by any of the Schools, or demonstrated an acute passion for Sustainability based on his/her personal experiences and activities
  • Active in community service and co-curricular activities
  • Preference will be accorded to candidates who have demonstrated or are embarking on activities/initiatives that show an active commitment towards sustainability

Benefits

  • $15,000 (towards subsidised tuition fees and study-related expenses)
  • Tenable for up to 2 years of study
  • May be in concurrent receipt of a bursary for cash allowance, subject to fulfilment of its eligibility criteria.

Learning and Development opportunities

Internship and/or recruitment opportunities

Application

Apply annually from 1 to 31 January via OASIS >Self-service App - Financial Aid Application

Enquiries

Centre for Student Financial Assistance
Office of Admissions and Financial Assistance
Email: finasst@smu.edu.sg

About the Donor

Equinix

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.

In unprecedented times such as now, we want to ensure that students have the opportunity to do well amidst the pandemic. We hope that our giving will encourage and help them succeed.

At Equinix, we design, build and operate our data centers with high energy efficiency standards, and we have a long-term goal of using 100% clean and renewable energy for our global platform. Similarly, SMU’s core priority and focus area are on Sustainable Living as seen in the design of SMU’s buildings, and campus being certified 100% green. Thus, we believe that supporting a Sustainability scholarship will contribute to SMU's efforts in being Sustainable and green.

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