Deadline: November 15, 2021
The 4-month Watson Semester Accelerator was launched to accelerate the careers of recent graduates and gap-year students by teaching them entrepreneurial skills with a focus on impact. Whether you want to identify creative solutions to challenges as an intrapreneur, work within an existing organization, or advance your own solution as an entrepreneur, the Watson Semester Accelerator prepares you with the hands-on skills and global network to innovate and create sustainable change.
Selected students receive hands-on training and mentorship during a time when the world needs brave leadership and creative solutions to issues of complex injustice and inequality.
They are now accepting applications for Spring, which runs from January-May 2022.
During the 4-month program, a cohort of next generation innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs from across the globe convene in-person and virtually to tackle complex problems and forge lives and careers of impact. From climate change to social justice and from poverty to access to quality education, Scholars selected to the hybrid Watson Semester Accelerator leverage training, mentorship, and community to accelerate their ventures and unleash lives of impact.
Benefits:
- Scholarships covering 50% of tuition or more are available based on need and merit. Competitive full-tuition fellowships are awarded based on merit.
- Receive tailored mentorship from experienced innovators and entrepreneurs.
- Learn from a leader of a Nobel Prize winning movement and CEO’s of companies such as Priceline.com.
- Watson Institute’s 294 alumni represent 69 countries.
- Collectively Watson’s alumni have raised over $100 million, created over 1,000 jobs, and impacted 5 million people around the world.
- Alumni have been selected to Y Combinator, the Echoing Green Fellowship and Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.
- Alumni have continued their education at Harvard University, New York University, and Princeton University, among others.
- Earn up to 6 units of credit toward an MBA at CU Leeds School of Business.
