The Legatum Center administers a fellowship program for incoming and current MIT students, across all academic and professional disciplines, who demonstrate the potential to create innovative, sustainable, for-profit enterprises that promote prosperity in low-income countries. Students who are committed to implementing business plans upon graduation are encouraged to apply.

Legatum Fellowship

The 2015 Legatum Fellowship Application is now open. Legatum Fellows benefit from a scholarship award and a program that prepare them for successful careers as entrepreneurs.

THE LEGATUM FELLOWSHIP AT MIT DESCRIPTION

The Legatum Center seeks entrepreneurs who aspire to have a lasting and positive economic impact on low-income countries by developing their own entrepreneurial ideas and building their own local enterprises. The Center’s approach is intensely practical. Recognizing that even the best innovations can be rendered useless if not distributed effectively, we work closely with our Fellows to design not just innovative products and services, but also…