Tapatio Macarena Hernández has become the first person from Mexico to earn a scholarship to study for a MBA at the Saïd Business School, the University of Oxford’s prestigious center of learning for undergraduate and graduate students in business, management and finance.
Hernández studied industrial engineering at Guadalajara’s ITESO university and has worked as a volunteer with Prospera, a privately funded program that trains women to be financially independent and helps lift them out of poverty.
The Saïd Business School is rated seventh on the Forbes list of best foreign one-year business schools. Tuition fees for a MBA are around $US75,000. The one-year program emphasizes experiential learning, culminating in the final term when students complete a strategic consulting project, in which they work with nonprofits, startups and corporations all over the world.