Bryan MBA Fellowships and Assistantships

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In addition to financial aid, many students pursue the opportunity to receive an honorary fellowship, scholarship, or graduate student assistantship as a way to defray the costs of their graduate education. These positions are both labor intensive and highly competitive, and are reserved for students pursuing a full-time course load.

MBA Excellence Scholarship

The MBA Excellence Scholarships are awarded to individuals with high potential to succeed as organizational leaders. Factors for selection include academic achievement, service and leadership, college and community involvement. High emphasis is placed on potential to succeed as leaders in business and in not-for-profit organizations.

Scholarships are awarded for a year and are renewable. The scholarship will be awarded for up to two academic years.

Students must demonstrate excellent academic performance throughout the year to maintain the scholarship award.

Click here to download the MBA Excellence Scholarship Guidelines

Balbirer Family Scholarship

The Balbirer Family Scholarship is an annual $1,000 scholarship awarded to one entering, full-time MBA student. The award is merit-based and is renewable for the second year based on satisfactory academic performance. No application is required and all admitted students to the day program will be automatically considered.

Stanley and Dorothy Frank Entrepreneurship Fellowship

The Stanley and Dorothy Frank Entrepreneurship Fellowship is a $1,000 award given annually to one entering MBA student who has experience starting and owning a business or if no candidate meets this criterion, may be awarded to an individual who has been employed in a management level position in a business entity and plans to begin his/her own business in the future. No application is required and the Fellowship is renewable provided the student maintains a B average or higher.

Bryan Fellowship

The Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics seeks to attract graduate students of exceptional academic ability and talent through the Bryan Fellowship Awards Program. These fellowships are funded by the Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Endowment Fund for the school. Recipients of these fellowships are recognized as Bryan Fellows and receive fellowship awards valued at a minimum of $2,000 and include a graduate assistantship appointment valued at a minimum of $5,000. The awards are for a nine-month period (fall and spring semesters).

These fellowships are renewable, provided the recipient maintains educational program performance standards expected of Bryan Fellows.

The selection of Bryan Fellows is based upon demonstrated academic excellence and potential for success in business and economics careers. Applications are accepted on a continuous basis, but priority deadlines for fall semester are March 15th.

Graduate Assistantships

The Bryan School also offers a limited number of graduate assistantships to full-time students in the evening or Bryan Day MBA. Applicants for assistantships must have been unconditionally admitted into the MBA degree program. Assistants are usually employed to assist faculty members for as many as 20 hours per week.

Stipends for graduate assistantships start at $5000 for the nine-month academic year. In a few cases, the out-of-state tuition differential for the fall and spring semesters may be waived for applicants appointed to an assistantship.

Click here to download a Graduate Assistantship Application

In the event that the Bryan School is unable to offer a graduate assistantship, admitted MBA students are encouraged to search the Student Employment Office’s listings for other available graduate assistantship positions on-campus.

Click here for details and to conduct a search.

Please note that the listings are updated regularly and that the largest selection of positions is available prior to the beginning of a new term. Assistantships may have certain eligibility requirements.