wow, this must be not taken lightly. life changing decision awaits.
before i jumped into my thoughts, lets make clear that i am total stranger who lack context of who you are and your situation, but let me point out one or two that might be can be considered:
-if you ask about this to your university professor, i assume he/she might be recommend to pursue the scholarship
-depends on the work culture, asking your boss might be very good idea or bad one..
-or maybe you can foreseen the situation, assess trajectory of your current career based on insights or news (such latest investment, etc etc?)
maybe 2 criteria would be helping: whether your personal attitude to your work, or you have personal aspiration in particular subject (urge to dig deeper about a topic that you found interesting) that might be lead you to better/fullfilling opportunity?
*a fan of nicholas taleb antifragile would suggest you to take the scholarship though