Two Executive MBA Scholarships Available To Nonprofit Employees
The Penn State Smeal College of Business Executive MBA Program, which is held in Philadelphia and currently in its fifth year, is offering two $25,000 competitive scholarships to be awarded to two incoming students in the class of 2009 who are employees of nonprofit organizations.
Two Executive MBA Scholarships Available To Nonprofit Employees
PHILADELPHIA (November 21, 2006) – The Penn State Smeal College of Business Executive MBA Program, which is held in Philadelphia and currently in its fifth year, is offering two $25,000 competitive scholarships to be awarded to two incoming students in the class of 2009 who are employees of nonprofit organizations.
To be eligible, candidates must submit a 500-word essay describing how the Philadelphia-based Executive MBA Program will help further the work of their nonprofit organization or cause. The submission deadline is March 30, 2007.
"Students often rely on contributions from their employers to help pay for an executive MBA degree," said Dennis Sheehan, associate dean for MBA programs at Smeal. "For a student who works at a nonprofit, cost-sharing may not be as feasible, but our scholarship program can help. And the benefits of an MBA, whether you work at a Fortune 500 company or a nonprofit, can be enormous."
Past recipients of the Executive MBA nonprofit scholarship have come from the University of Pennsylvania and the YMCA, among others.
For more on the scholarships or the Smeal Executive MBA Program, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/execmba or contact EMBA Managing Director Jake Ray at 866-999-EMBA or jakeray@psu.edu.
About the Penn State Smeal College of Business EMBA
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers an Executive MBA program using faculty from its University Park campus. Delivered every other weekend over a 21-month period in an executive format, the Smeal Executive MBA is one of only two programs in the Philadelphia area offered by a business school that is ranked among the best in the world by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, U.S. News and World Report, the Financial Times, and many others.
The program attracts students throughout the region from Connecticut, south to Virginia and west to Pittsburgh. Designed to help managers and professionals develop as leaders as part of an intimate learning community, the Smeal EMBA includes a yearlong course in leadership communication skills and one-on-one executive coaching. For more about the program, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/execmba.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
