Executive MBA Program Introduces Non-Profit Scholarship
Executive MBA Program Introduces Non-Profit Scholarship
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 28, 2005)—The Penn State Smeal College of Business Executive MBA Program, which enters its fourth year in August, has introduced a $20,000 competitive scholarship to be awarded to one incoming student or divided among multiple students who are also employees of non-profit organizations.
To be eligible, candidates must submit a 500-word essay describing how the Philadelphia-based MBA program will help further the work of their non-profit organization or cause. The submission deadline is July 15.
"Students often rely on contributions from their employers to help pay for an executive MBA education," said Dennis Sheehan, associate dean for MBA Programs at Smeal. "For a student who works at a non-profit, 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 non-profit, can be enormous."
The Smeal Executive MBA Program is taught by the same faculty who teach in the college's internationally ranked full-time MBA Program. The program is divided into four segments over a 22-month period. Each of the first three segments contains a five-day residence at Penn State's University Park Campus. The final segment includes a global immersion experience, exploring business strategy and economic issues across countries, customs, currencies and cultures.
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.
