Sep 17, 2008

USA: Full-Tuition Fellowships at Top Business Schools

Here's a look at some of the basics about full-tuition scholarships at some of the leading MBA programs. One of the management education world's greatest secrets is the wide variety of full-tuition fellowship programs at business schools. There are more than you might think-University of Virgina's Darden School of Business, for example, offers 61 full-tuition fellowships- and it is well worth taking the time to look into them during the application process. It could save you a cool $150,000, the average price for a two-year education at a top business school. We've rounded up
some of the top schools' full-tuition fellowship programs, along with how to apply for them.

School: California Berkeley (Haas)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Haas Merit Scholarship; Haas Achievement Award; Maxwell Fellowship; White Fellowship

School: Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Dean's Scholarship

School: U. of Chicago
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: The Dennis W. and Jane B. Carlton Fellowship; The Distinguished Fellows Program; The Wallman Fellowship; The David W. Fox Fellowship

School: Columbia
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Feldberg Fellowship; Kopf Fellowship; Project Charity Trust; Alexander Bodini Real Estate Fellowship; Margaret B. Greenawalt Scholarship Fund; Mario Gabelli Fellowship; Goldman Sachs Foundation; Heilbrunn Fellowship; Various Corporate Fellowships

School: Cornell (Johnson)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Park Leadership Fellows

School: Duke (Fuqua)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Keller Scholarship

School: Harvard
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: HBS Fellowship Program

School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Dean's Fellowships

School: University of Michigan (Ross)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship:

School: New York University (Stern)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Dean's Scholarships

School: Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Howard E. Mitchell Fellowship

School: Stanford
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Charles P. Bonini Partnership for Diversity Fellowship; Mohammed bin Rashid Fellows Program; Reliance Dhirubhai Fellowship, all outside merit-based fellowships. The school also offers fellowships through their financial aid office based solely on financial need.

School: U. of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Carolyn and Harold Anderson MBA Premier Fellowship; Bank of America MBA Fellowship; The Thomas M. Belk MBA Fellowship; Thomas W. Hudson, Jr. MBA Fellowship; Richard H. Jenrette Fellowship; Jay Edward Klompmaker MBA Fellowship; Peter G.C. Mallinson MBA Fellowship; The Michaux Family MBA Premier Fellowship for Real Estate Students; Tiger Fellowship; Forte Fellowship; Kenan-Flagler Business School Fellowship

School: UCLA (Anderson)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Dean's Fellowships

School: Virgina (Darden)
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: Darden Jefferson Fellowship; Batten Entrepreneurial Scholarship; Batten Innovation Scholarship; Batten Media Scholarship; Batten Technology Scholarship; Class of 1957 Charles Abbott Scholarship; Darden Foundation Trustee Scholarship; Darden School Foundation Consortium Fellowship; Darden School Foundation Scholarship; IRC International Scholarship; Robert E. Lamb II Scholarship; Robert E. Lamb II Dean's Scholarship; Landmark Communications Scholarship; Pendleton Scholarship

School: Yale
Name of full-tuition scholarship/ fellowship: The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun)
Scholarship; Gordon and Betty Moore Fellowship; Consortium Fellowship

Read a complete article at
http://www.business week.com/ bschools/ content/sep2008/ bs2008094_ 035405.htm

Note: The Consortium fellowships mentioned in the story (www.cgsm.org) are
unfortunately only for US citizens and permanent residents.


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