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Latest Stories About Financial Aid
GMAC Launches New Tuition Assistance Tool to Help MBA Applicants Research Financial Aid
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the GMAT entrance exam for business school admissions, has launched a new interactive tool designed to help prospective MBA applicants better understand the types of financial aid and tuition assistance offered by business schools in different regions of the world.... Read more »
Financing the MBA: How Student Loan Savvy Are You?
Business school is a major investment — both in terms of your future career prospects, and your personal finances. While many of our readers are currently focused on how to get into the MBA program of their dreams, we know that some of you are also considering how you’ll eventually... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part V
While loans are a necessary fact of life for many MBA students, it pays to investigate the full range of scholarship, fellowship and other programs that can provide additional means of financing your MBA. These options have the significant advantage of not needing to be repaid. Individual business schools have... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part IV
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 III
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 on loan programs for U.S.... Read more »
Quiz: How Student Loan Savvy Are You?
Business school is a major investment — both in terms of your future career prospects, and your personal finances. While many of our readers are currently focused on how to get into the MBA program of their dreams, we know that some of you are also considering how you’ll eventually pay for it.... Read more »
Financing Your MBA, Part II
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 »
A Guide to Student Loans for MBAs
The following sponsored content was provided to Clear Admit by CommonBond. For more information about sponsorship opportunities with Clear Admit, contact us here. First off, congratulations to all the new admits! Whether you’re starting your first year this fall or returning for your second year, you’ll need to answer the following question:... Read more »
Economist, GMAT Tutor Launch $25,000 Scholarship Competition for MBA, EMBA Applicants
The Economist and test prep firm GMAT Tutor have once again partnered to offer a $25,000 scholarship to the prospective MBA or EMBA student who scores highest on a simulated GMAT exam. Called the Brightest Minds MBA Scholarship Contest, the competition is open to prospective MBA or EMBA students anywhere... Read more »
Yale School of Management Announces New LGBT Scholarship
Class of 2017 students at the Yale School of Management who demonstrate both strong academic skills and a capacity for leadership within the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer (LBGT) community will now be eligible for a new scholarship opportunity, the school announced this week. Through its partnership with Reaching Out... Read more »
IESE Becomes Latest Business School to Ink Deal with Prodigy Finance for International MBA Loans
Spain’s IESE Business School has reached an agreement with U.K.‒based Prodigy Finance that will enable it to offer a new loan to international MBA and Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) students to help them finance their studies, the school announced this week. In other words, financing an IESE education just became much easier for students... Read more »
UPenn’s Wharton School Debuts New Online Business Foundations Series, Associated MBA Scholarship
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has expanded its online offerings of foundational MBA courses to now include a Business Foundations Specialization series that adds a capstone project in which participants can apply what they learn to help solve real-world business issues, the school announced last week. And in another... Read more »
Prodigy Finance Offers No Co-Signer Loans, Helping Solve Funding Challenges Facing MBAs Studying Abroad
Studying outside of the country of your nationality or residence can present many benefits to prospective MBA applicants. See the world, improve language skills, expand horizons, learn first-hand how increasingly global the business world has become. And yet, one major hurdle can sometimes prevent ambitious, talented prospective MBA applicants from... Read more »
NYU Stern School of Business Woos Top College Seniors with Generous MBA Scholarship
Though many leading business schools prefer MBA applicants who have acquired at least a few years of work experience after college, NYU Stern School of Business features a special scholarship designed specifically for exceptional college seniors who seek to pursue a full-time MBA immediately after graduation. The William R. Berkley... Read more »
MIT Sloan School of Management Announces New LGBT MBA Fellowship
As part of its commitment to fostering a diverse MBA class, MIT Sloan School of Management will award a new fellowship for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students to one or more members of the class of 2017, the school announced last week. The new Reaching Out LGBT MBA... Read more »
