Heriot-Watt partners with Campaign's Agency Faces to Watch 2025 for 5th year with scholarships for winners
Heriot-Watt University Dubai has partnered for the fifth year with Campaign Middle East for Campaign's annual Agency Faces to Watch list. As part of the campaign, the University is offering a chance for the brightest and best young talents aged 30 and below to win 5 scholarships to a Master's degree in Digital Marketing at its Edinburgh Business School.
Interested applicants should be working in Creative, Media, Digital and PR agencies in the MENA region.
Heriot-Watt University Dubai campus is a satellite campus of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Established in 2005, the University offers an extensive range of research-informed degree programmes in a global study environment, with strong links to business and industry.
Heriot-Watt University Dubai is offering scholarships to a Master's degree in Digital Marketing at its Edinburgh Business School to winners this year. Here are details on the scholarship:
One 100 per cent scholarship.
4 x 30 per cent scholarships to the winner of each category (4 categories – Creative, Media, Digital and PR ).
Candidates will have to submit a 500-word essay to qualify for the above scholarships on how this course will help them in their future career in marketing, to be judged by a panel.
For more details on the Master's degree in Digital Marketing at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dubai, click here.
The final deadline for Agency Faces to Watch will be March 3, 2025, so get your entries in now.
There is a limit of 3 entries per agency in each category.
For any further enquiries, please email: [email protected].
For reference, please visit to view our last year's Creative, Media, Digital and PR Agency Faces to Watch.
To submit your entry to Agency Faces to Watch for 2025, please click here.
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