When the Northwest Guilford High School seniors gather in the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center on Saturday, June 9 at 10:30 a.m., they will have much to celebrate. Many will be looking forward to continuing their education in the fall, while others will begin careers in the workforce or serve in the military.
According to Guidance Counselor Ashlea Ball, the three students with the highest grade point averages – Katie Beam, Anna Diemer and Elizabeth Julian – are so close that at press time valedictorian and salutatorian could not be determined.
This class of 538 students has been offered scholarships worth in excess of $8.4 million, which includes multiple offers made to several students. For example, Beam, who will attend UNC-Chapel Hill, also received offers to Virginia Tech and Lenoir-Rhyne. Diemer, who will attend Furman University, had offers from Arizona State, Texas A&M, the University of Florida, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas at Dallas, and the University of South Carolina. Julian received three scholarships from UNC-Greensboro, where she will be attending.
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More than 150 scholarships totaling a near $1.5 million were awarded to 73 Brighton High School seniors during the Senior Breakfast and Awards program May 24 at the high school.
The list includes a United States Merchant Marine Academy Appointment for Aaron Baldwin, several state college and university scholarships, athletic scholarships, music scholarships, and several awarded locally by businesses, service clubs, families and public service organizations.
Following is a list of the students and the scholarships they received.
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Donald W. Cowie, CPA, MBA, announces AXA Advisors scholarships
Johnstown - Donald W. Cowie, CPA, MBA, Financial Planner with AXA Advisors, LLC, 1450 Scalp Ave., Suite 110, Johnstown, has announced the availability of AXA Achievement Community Scholarships.
Additional information and applications may be obtained by calling Cowie at 266-8641.
The AXA Achievement Community Scholarship program offers $2,000 college scholarships to high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their activities in school, the community or the workplace. The scholarships are sponsored by the AXA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of AXA Advisors LLC.
Applicants must be United States citizens or legal residents, be
The winners of a $1.1million suite of scholarships to some of the worlds most prestigious business schools such as Wharton, Chicago and IE Instituto de Empresa in Spain, were announced yesterday. 2007s winners are from countries as diverse as Bulgaria, China, Colombia, France, South Korea, UK, Ukraine and the USA.
The scholarships are available exclusively to attendees of the QS World MBA Tour, which travels with a total of over 350 business schools to 43 countries and is the largest programme of b-school events worldwide. Awards include the QS scholarships for Leadership and Community Involvement as well as those from the
Breaking into the corporate world got a little easier for women yesterday with a $1 million donation to the Richard Ivey School of Business.
The TD Bank Financial Group announced the gift to fund scholarships for women enrolling in the MBA program.
Ivey Dean Carol Stephenson said business schools have lagged behind other graduate programs in business and medicine where females make up about 50 per cent of the students.
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Man behind scholarships says university broke promise to veterans
The University of Illinois last year offered up to 110 scholarships to veterans and members of the military interested in a masters of business administration degree. Each is worth $74,000.
THE DISAGREEMENT: Robert Van Der Hooning, who set up the program, says it was intended for the schools Chicago-based executive MBA program, with all scholarships available in 2006. The university says the scholarships were for any of the schools three MBA programs and werent intended to be awarded in a single year.
THE FALLOUT: Van Der Hooning filed a complaint with the state Court
Dublins UCD Smurfit School of Business launches a series of new - 2006-11-30
Irelands leading business school, UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business is stepping up its drive to attract the best MBA candidates to Ireland by launching a series of new scholarships for the 2007/8 academic year. A total of 11 scholarships will be offered to candidates applying for the full-time MBA programme. The application deadline for prospective students is the 16th March 2007.
The Scholarships One creativity scholarship will go to the candidate who best exemplifies creativity in Business. The School will also offer a series of regional merit
Financing your MBA Tanaka Business School launches new range of Imperial MBA Scholarships
With effect from March 2007, candidates wishing to enrol for the full-time and Executive MBA degrees in Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, will be able to take advantage of a range of new scholarships. Launched with the objective of attracting top female and international candidates to the Schools programme, the scholarships are also a celebration of Imperial Colleges centenary.
The Scholarships now available are:
2 MBA Foundation Scholarships and 2 EMBA Foundation scholarships, worth £10,000 each.
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Imperial College Londons Tanaka Business School creates new scholarships for its MBA and Executive MBA programmes
With effect from March 2007, candidates wishing to enrol for the full-time and Executive MBA degrees in Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, will be able to take advantage of a range of new scholarships. Launched with the objective of attracting top female and international candidates to the Schools programme, the scholarships are also a celebration of Imperial Colleges centenary.
The Scholarships now available are:
2 MBA Foundation Scholarships and 2 EMBA Foundation scholarships, worth £10,000 each.
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Students from two San Antonio universities and one Texas State University student in San Marcos are among this year's 15 scholarship winners from the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
The hall of fame foundation announced the winners Tuesday, saying each will receive $10,000 scholarships to apply toward their work on master's degrees in business administration. The winners are Stuart Bankey of the University of Texas at San Antonio, Gina Culotta at St. Mary's University and Maggie Lajaunie at Texas State University.
The hall, which will hold ceremonies Nov. 5 in San Antonio to induct four prominent business leaders into the
The UNC Charlotte Masters in Business Administration program is partnering with the National Black MBA Association and The Princeton Review to offer scholarships for Graduate Management Aptitude Test preparation courses.The scholarship program began last fall and is aimed at helping candidates whose backgrounds are traditionally underrepresented in MBA programs.
According to The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International, the organization that accredits business schools, only about 5.3 percent of U.S. MBA students are African American. Hispanic Americans represent about 5.2 percent of the MBA student population, while less than 1 percent is Native American.
The scholarships, valued as high as
GRE and UR offer 15 MBA scholarships
The Simon Graduate School of Business at University of Rochester, in partnership with Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE), is offering scholarships to 15 managers at small-to mid-size local firms and nonprofit organizations wishing to pursue an Executive MBA degree.
The GRE Scholarships, available to applicants for the Simon Schools Executive MBA Program starting in September 2007, will provide 50 percent scholarships to qualified individuals who live and work in the greater Rochester area.
This mutually beneficial collaboration will help Rochester to foster and retain top MBA talent in the local marketplace, Dennis Mullen, GRE president
The Micron Technology Foundation, Inc., announced today Virginia high school seniors Michael Lin, Sarah Marzen, and Catherine Pao will each receive a $16,500 scholarship as a part of the Micron Science and Technology Scholars program. Micron will honor Lin of York High School and New Horizons Governors School for Science and Technology, Marzen of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and Pao of Poquoson High School during a leadership and mentoring week at its headquarters and an awards banquet in June with Micron CEO Steve Appleton and other company and Foundation leaders.
Since its inception in 2001, the
Financing Your MBA Tanaka Business School Launches New Range of Imperial MBA Scholarships
London (PRWEB) March 8, 2007 -- With effect from March 2007, candidates wishing to enrol for the full-time and Executive MBA degrees in Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, will be able to take advantage of a range of new scholarships. Launched with the objective of attracting top female and international candidates to the Schools programme, the scholarships are also a celebration of Imperial Colleges centenary.
The Scholarships now available are: 2 MBA Foundation Scholarships and 2 EMBA Foundation scholarships, worth £10,000 each.
Imperial College was founded 100 years
World MBA Tour offers RM9.9m business scholarships
The World MBA Tour is offering over US$2.7mil (RM9.9mil) in exclusive scholarships to visitors of its business school fairs held in 40 countries including Malaysia.
The largest international programme of business school fairs comes to Kuala Lumpur this Friday enabling fair visitors to vie for the scholarships.
The World MBA Tour is the primary recruitment tool for the world’s leading business schools, and has been touring the globe now for 12 years.
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World MBA Tour offers RM9.9m business scholarships
The World MBA Tour is offering over US$2.7mil (RM9.9mil) in exclusive scholarships to visitors of its business school fairs held in 40 countries including Malaysia.
The largest international programme of business school fairs comes to Kuala Lumpur this Friday enabling fair visitors to vie for the scholarships.
The World MBA Tour is the primary recruitment tool for the world’s leading business schools, and has been touring the globe now for 12 years.
More : biz.thestar.com.my