Schwarzman Scholars Announces Inaugural Class to Study in China
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Stephen A. Schwarzman created the fully funded master’s program in Beijing. CreditSasha Maslov for The New York Times
There is a Stephen A. Schwarzman public library building in New York City, a Stephen A. Schwarzman cultural center on the drawing boards at Yale, and now a Stephen A. Schwarzman College, a brick building with a pagoda-inspired roof on the Tsinghua University campus in Beijing that, starting in August, will house the first class of Schwarzman scholars.
On Monday, the program will announce the first 111 scholarship winners. Mr. Schwarzman, chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, theprivate equity and investment giant, started the program with a goal of identifying, as he put it, “your best guess as future leaders of the world.”
Some of the recipients, selected from a pool of 3,000 applicants, already seem well on their way…
Schwarzman Scholars Announces Inaugural Class to Study in China
