Miami Ad School Offers 11 Scholarships to Nigeria, Appoints Representative

Miami Ad School has announced the offer of one full tuition scholarship and 10 half tuition scholarships to deserving students of Nigerian origin at any of their full time schools in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco, Minneapolis or Hamburg. This offer followed the appointment of Mr. Nnamdi Ndu as the schools representative in Nigeria. Mr. Ndu, who is the Managing Director of Chini Productions, also wears another cap as the Cannes Lions Representative in Nigeria.

According to Mr. Ndu, plans are already in place to hold a competition in March to select beneficiaries of the scholarships. The winners will be announced on the 12^th of March at an Awards Night alongside winners from other competitions organized by Chini, which include, the Roger Hatchuel Academy selection competition, the Young Lions Competition in Film, Media, Cyber and Print categories as well as the Young Clients Competition.

In the letter of appointment, the Global Director of Miami Ad School, Mr. Ron Seichrist, stated that Mr. Ndu will facilitate the school’s directives in educational workshops and student scholarship competitions and also counsel prospective Nigerian students for any Miami Ad School educational program, including students who wish to apply to a Miami Ad School full time school.

Speaking on the appointment, Mr. Ndu said ”the new relationship with Miami Ad School will strengthen our three pronged mission of Training, Equipping and Celebrating creatives and marketing communication professionals in general. Before now we’ve been holding high profile workshops, but this takes it further to a whole new level and is really the first step towards having a full-fledged Miami Ad School campus in Nigeria. We will also continue to provide inspiring books and other resources that will help the professional stay at the cutting edge of the industry through our partnership with Lürzer’s Archive and of course with training and equipping, we know that excellence is bound to follow, so we’re desperately looking forward to celebrate these successes at Cannes Lions and Dubai Lynx.”

The Miami Ad School, also known as the School of Pop Culture Engineering has campuses in Miami, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Hamburg, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Madrid. It is the most awarded ad school in the world and for the past four years, the Gunn Report, the top advertising ranking authority globally, has named the Miami Ad School the best advertising schools in the world based on the quality of the awards received by the school and their students.