KBank holds exam for eight graduate scholarships

KBank will hold an examination for eight graduate scholarships for 2019 at both local and international institutes in many fields, including business administration, finance and IT, the bank said in a press release on Thursday.Scholarships in business data analytics are offered for the first time this year to seek a new generation of employees with competencies to help KBank press ahead with the strategies to be Customers’ Life Platform of Choice and a Data-Driven Bank. Applications are open from now until April 9, 2019.

Kattiya Indaravijaya, KBank President, said that because human resources are the nexus of any organizations and national development, KBank is offering eight full scholarships for master programs at both local and international institutions, as follows:

Graduate scholarships at international institutes in countries determined by KBank, namely the US, UK, France, Switzerland, Japan, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Singapore, for 14 fields, including business administration, finance, financial engineering, international business, risk management, mathematics, statistics, data analysis, computer science – artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, human computer interaction or UX UI design biometrics, computer systems and computational linguistics. Graduate scholarships in business data analytics are offered for the first time in 2019 in response to KBank’s operations to use big data in mobilising the business.

For local institutes, KBank offers scholarships for students to study at Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University and Thammasat University in four academic fields, namely Master of Business Administration Program (MBA), Master Program in Financial Engineering (MFE), Master of Science in Finance (MSF) & Master in Finance (MIF) and Master of Science Program in Marketing (MIM).

Qualified applicants for business data analytics study must not be older than 28 years old, while applicants for study in other academic fields must not be older than 30 years old and must be a Thai citizen with a bachelor’s degree in any field and a minimum of 3.0 GPA.

People applying to study abroad must submit their test scores of language proficiency, GMAT or GRE per the criteria together with their applications. Interested persons can fill the application forms at www.kasikornbank.com and find additional information from KBank’s announcement or KBank’s Human Resource Development Department, tel. 02-470 3172 or [email protected] from today until April 9, 2019.

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