Are you the Business and Finance Undergraduate of the YearMorgan Stanley

Open to first year and penultimate year undergraduates  
in business, finance or joint degrees containing these subjects.

 

 

We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the outstanding pre-final year business and finance undergraduate. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will get a guaranteed summer internship or industrial placement with Morgan Stanley, followed by a personalised week-long Company Insight Programme at their New York HQ, all expenses paid. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April 2012.

Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor Morgan Stanley and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.

So if you are a first year or penultimate year undergraduate studying a business, finance, management or closely related degree...

And you are expecting at least a 2.1...

And you think you're the best business and finance undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.

Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.

Entries closed

How do I win it then?

It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last ten. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.

Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor of the award.

Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partner SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere between 30 and 70 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entries is 31 January 2012.

Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways, including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.

Last year's winner:

Matthew Scotland

Matthew was born in East Sussex and is studying Accounting and Financial Management at Loughborough University. He was recently judged the LANSCA ICAEW top year two Accounting and Financial Management student. His interests include live music, socialising, travelling, cookery and various sports including golf.

About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm has over 60,000 employees in more than 1,200 offices in 37 countries, serving clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. Services offered include: investment banking advice on mergers and acquisitions, privatisations and financial restructuring; debt and equity underwriting; sales and trading in all the world’s major markets; and market leading research, with strengths in global asset and wealth management.

Find out more about Morgan Stanley at: www.morganstanley.com/careers/