New Scholarships Available For Chicago Booth Weekend MBAs

Looking for some extra help as you try to pay your way through a part-time MBA program in the Chicago Metro? The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business is launching an MBA scholarship program to help professionals working in the nonprofit and government sectors with their financial aid needs. Booth’s new “Civic Scholars” program will offer full-tuition scholarships to eight students enrolled in Booth’s part-time Weekend MBA program.

Think you’re cut out to be a Civic Scholar? Booth outlines that an ideal candidate for this scholarship is a working professional with six to ten years experience in the nonprofit and government sectors. The admissions department is looking for prospective MBAs who scored at least 700 on their GMAT and who have an undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Students in the Civic Scholars program will take the same classes as other students in Booth’s MBA Programs. In addition to the core curriculum classwork, scholars will have new, experience-based courses designed exclusively for the program. These courses put students in small teams to conduct research and consulting projects for social sector and government organizations, as well as on individual projects at the Civic Scholars’ own organizations. If that’s not enough, there’s also a host of curricular and extra-curricular programs specifically designed for Civic Scholars.

As we outline on our website, Booth’s Weekend MBA program meets at Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago every Saturday. Classes run from either 9 am to 12 pm or 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm for the duration of each 11 week quarter. By taking an average of two courses per quarter, students typically complete the 20-course program in two and a half to three years time.

For more information, you can visit Booth’s Civic Scholars program webpage.

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