Congratulations to the new Sobey National Innovators and Sobey MBA Scholars!
Saint Mary’s University and the Sobey School of Business are proud to announce the newest recipients of the 2025 Sobey National Innovator and Sobey MBA Scholarships.
The Sobey National Innovator and Sobey MBA Scholarships are presented to exceptional students from across Canada in recognition of their accomplishments, and as encouragement and support for their success at Saint Mary’s Sobey School of Business. This scholarship program will support 150 students over a ten-year period, inspiring the best and brightest graduate and undergraduate business students in the country to come to Saint Mary’s University and the Sobey School of Business.
The following is a list of the 2025 Sobey National Innovators:
Sobey MBA Scholarship recipients
The following is a list of the 2025 Sobey MBA Scholarship recipients:
These students join other recipients as members of the Sobey Scholars Network, a special cohort that includes all current and past students, alumni, Chair holders, named Professors and Post-Doctoral Fellows who have been the recipients of philanthropic financial support from the Sobey Family, The Sobey Foundation, Sobeys Inc., and Empire Company Limited.
Since 2006, the Sobeys Leadership Awards have been supported by the Sobeys Scholarship Endowment Fund. Five new renewable awards of $4,000 each are distributed annually. If all returning students meet the award criteria, this could result in 20 awards of $4,000, or $80,000 in total, distributed in a single year. These awards recognize full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the Sobey School of Business who demonstrate community service leadership, financial need and satisfactory academic achievement.
Congratulations to our new and returning Sobeys Leadership Award recipients:
The Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies is a scholarship program administered by The Sobey Foundation in which Saint Mary's University has the opportunity to endorse one applicant from the Sobey School of Business each year. This scholarship is open to all business students in Atlantic Canada.
2025 Recipient
Taylor Lougheed has been named one of only eight undergraduate students from across Atlantic Canada to be awarded the Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies for the 2025 year.
Taylor exemplifies leadership through her success in managing a student-run business, achieving academic excellence, and serving as Assistant Captain of the SMU Huskies Women’s Volleyball team. Her entrepreneurial, athletic, and campus involvement have shaped the skills and determination that will drive her continued success.
Read more about Taylor here.