Funding and Book Prizes

Funding Aid

Financial assistance or Skills Development Fund (SDF) grants are not available for the EMBA programme. However, many participants receive sponsorship or partial funding for their tuition from their employers. We will cooperate with you and your employer's tuition assistance programme to complete any necessary documentation.

SPRING Singapore Advanced Management Programme

Qualifying candidates from Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs), applying to the EMBA and Berkeley-Nanyang Advanced Management Programmes, are eligible for funding under SPRING's Advanced Management Programme.

You are eligible for funding under the AMP if your company meets the following criteria:

You are part of the senior management team of an SME* challenged with managing increasing business complexity, as demonstrated by your company’s size, growth, markets and operations.

SMEs must fulfill criteria (A) and (B), OR (A) and (C)

(A) Size and growth

At least S$10 million in annual sales turnover#, or
At least S$5 million in annual sales turnover# and company growth exceeding industry average, or
At least 50 staff and company growth exceeding industry average

(B) Markets

Revenue from overseas markets, including sales from non-domestic sources, foreign exports, or sales bound overseas via local intermediary

Investments in foreign operations, or
Multiple establishments^

* SMEs are defined as companies with at least 30% local shareholding, group fixed assets below S$15 million and less than 200 employees
# Turnover to include only value added products and services
^ Examples of establishments include outlets, factories, facilities

For more information and application, please visit www.spring.gov.sg/amp.

Furama Ltd Book Prize

Donated in 2008 by Furama Ltd, this donation of $50,000 will be utilized in the following manner.

a. $30,000 will be for an endowed book prize. Proceeds from the $60,000 (inclusive of 1:1 government matching) will be awarded to an outstanding student in the English EMBA programme in Nanyang Business School (NBS)

b. In addition, a one-time term donation of $20,000 in support of the prestigious 2008 ABCC@Nanyang competition was donated

The book prize will be awarded to the EMBA student who achieves the following:

Minimum GPA of 3.3 in a scale of 4.0, and
Best independent project in EM6701 Business Analysis and Application

The book prize will be awarded by Nanyang Business School on recommendations of the Programme Director of the English EMBA Programme and approval from the Dean’s Office. No award will be made unless there are candidates of sufficient merit and there is available distributable income. Income not distributed will be reinvested in the endowed fund.

About Furama Ltd

Furama Ltd is a hotel property investment holding company listed on the Singapore Exchange. It owns the Furama RiverFront and Furama City Centre hotels in Singapore and four hotels in Bangkok, Thailand, namely Furama Silom, FuramaXclusive Asoke, FuramaXclusive Sathorn and FuramaXclusive Sukhumvit. Furama Ltd also owns an equity stake in the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). All Furama Ltd hotels are managed by Furama Hotels International Management Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based hotel management company owned by the same majority shareholder of the listed entity. Furama Hotels International manages a total of 16 hotels and villa resorts availing more than 3000 rooms, with presence in major key cities in the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Bali and Sydney.