How much can an international student expect from scholarships?
GrahamRichmond: The top programs I spoke with mentioned that they don’t typically treat international applicants much differently than domestics when it comes to scholarship dollars. In fact, one program in particular stated that they have been working to offer more scholarship packages to admitted internationals in an effort to help them matriculate. FrancescaBW: Yes, but isn’t it difficult to get scholarship money for graduate business school? GrahamRichmond: Of course, MBA programs typically offer less “free money” than PhD programs and other non-professional graduate degrees. The reason is that the starting salaries for MBA graduates are typically more than ample when it comes to paying off tuition loans. But my point was merely that of the scholarship dollars that are out there, the schools are giving them to both domestic and internationals. On a related note, keep in mind that any international who graduates from a U.S. MBA program can work in the U.S. for one year under the OPT
