Financial Aid
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Latest Stories About Financial Aid
Clear Admit and CommonBond Host Webinar on Financing Your MBA
Are you heading off to school this fall and beginning to tackle the big issue of how to pay for it? If so, you’re in luck! We’ve just made the ‘financing the MBA’ webinar we conducted with our friends at CommonBond available online – and we highly recommend that you give... Read more »
CommonBond Hosts Free Webinar on How to Fund Your MBA
Join Clear Admit and CommonBond for this free webinar revealing a variety of ways to cover the costs of a business school education. “How to Fund Your MBA” will help attendees understand different funding options available to them as they set forth on their path to business school. Pete Wylie,... Read more »
Stanford GSB Announces Financial Aid Update
Six weeks into a process to revamp financial aid protocol at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), the school has shared the most recent updates in an ongoing review and re-imagining of how financial aid is awarded. The decision to reassess the process, which we covered two weeks ago, came... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part 4: International MBA Student Loans
In our previous post on financing your MBA, we covered loan programs for MBA students from the United States. Today, we’ll take a look at loans through the lens of international students, who face some different restrictions but who are also eligible for special programs tailored to their unique requirements. By... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part 3: Loans for U.S. MBA Students
Moving right along in our multi-part series on financing your MBA, we’ll take a look today at some of the options prospective MBA students have for obtaining loans to finance their time at business school. For the purposes of this post, we will focus primarily U.S. MBA student loan programs.... Read more »
Just Got into Stanford GSB? What You Need to Know About Financial Aid
If you are among the lucky applicants who got word last week that you’d been accepted to the MBA program at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), a hearty congratulations! Surely you know that you’ve just gotten into THE most selective business school in the world. We hope you took a little... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part 2
In the first of our multi-part series on financing your MBA, we took a look last week at the costs involved in attending a top-tier business school. Now, with a better handle on how much money you’ll need, let’s start looking at where that funding will come from. Students typically... Read more »
Clear Admit and Prodigy Finance Host Webinar on Financing Your MBA Abroad
Recently, Clear Admit teamed up with community-funded loan provider Prodigy Finance for an informative webinar about financing an MBA for students who will be earning the degree outside their home country. We were pleased have had a number of registrants who joined this webinar on March 14th and took part... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part I
As more and more of you are receiving your admissions results from all your hard work during the MBA application process, we wanted to turn our attention to how you’ll manage financing your MBA. If you’ve got a spare couple hundred thousand dollars in your bank account, then you can probably skip this... Read more »
“Game-Changing” Gift Promises to Make Darden More Global, Benefit Every Full-Time MBA Student
One major philanthropic gift unlocked a second matching gift, resulting in a new $30 million scholarship program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business that promises to make it possible for every student in the full-time MBA program to take part in a Darden Worldwide Course at no incremental cost.... Read more »
March Madness Begins: Consortium MBA Draft Takes Place Today
No, it has nothing to do with basketball. A draft of another sort will take place today, but for some MBA applicants it could be as big as getting signed with the Golden State Warriors. We’re talking about the annual draft for the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. Each... Read more »
The Skinny on Corporate MBA Fellowship Programs—Could One Be Right for You?
Prospective MBA students looking to join a program at a leading business school have a wealth of opportunities available to them in the form of corporate MBA fellowship programs. These highly competitive fellowships, often geared toward under-represented minorities, are offered by many major corporate recruiters hoping to secure top MBA talent... Read more »
Four Reasons You Need to Visit Clear Admit’s Interview Archive
As interview invitations for Round 2 MBA candidates continue to roll out, we wanted to remind Class of 2020 hopefuls that Clear Admit can help with the final hurdle to acceptance: the interview. The Clear Admit Interview Archive is a repository of first-hand accounts shared directly by MBA applicants after... Read more »
Michigan Ross Announces New Need-Based Scholarship
A $4.3 million gift to the University of Michigan Ross School of Business will go toward improving math proficiency. In particular, $1 million of the contribution from alum Mike Jandernoa (BBA ’72) and his wife Sue will be used to establish a new need-based scholarship fund for Michigan Ross undergraduate students.... Read more »
Dartmouth Tuck MBA Scholarships Reach All-Time High
Thanks to a $15 million gift that ties the record for the largest donation ever given to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, more business students than ever will have a chance to earn scholarship funding to cover their Tuck MBA. The donation, provided by Paul Raether (T’73 and... Read more »
