Funding Your MBA

If you have outstanding credentials, including demonstrated leadership experience, excellent communication skills, and strong analytical and quantitative skills, you may be eligible for our Connection to Excellence (C2E) Scholarship. C2E is awarded to highly qualified full-time UB MBA candidates with three or more years of work experience, competitive GMAT/GRE scores and an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or greater.

The C2E Scholarship provides full tuition and fees, as well as significant individual career development benefits exclusively for C2E recipients. There is no separate application process for the C2E Scholarship, but if you meet the above profile, contact us and let us know you are interested in fully funding your UB MBA education and propelling your career to new heights. 

Thank you to our C2E corporate partners M&T Bank and Rich Products. 

Outstanding applicants may be eligible for a UB MBA full or partial tuition scholarship.

• UB MBA Scholarships
• Helen Crosby Scholarship
• A. Neville Procter Memorial Fellowship
• Elizabeth M. and Joseph P. Ivers Management Scholarship
• Emily J. Bernacki Mathewson Memorial Scholarship
• Stephen J. Zielinski Management Scholarship

Made available through the generosity of William C. and Gloria K. King, this merit-based MBA scholarship of $15,000 is awarded to high-achieving UB School of Management undergraduates pursuing a full-time MBA. The scholarship is awarded in the first year of the full-time MBA program and renewable for the second year, based on performance.

To be eligible, you must be a UB School of Management senior admitted to the full-time MBA program or a junior admitted to the joint BS/MBA program. You must be in good standing, with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and a GMAT score of 600 or better (or a combined GRE score of 310 or better). Only U.S. domestic students are eligible.

Western New York Prosperity Fellowship program assists undergraduate and graduate students who are actively preparing for careers that further economic development and growth, especially in Western New York.

UB graduate students are eligible to receive an award of up to $34,000 through the CyberCorps: Scholarships for Service program funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Harold and Muriel Berkman Charitable Foundation awards up to 50 $1,000 scholarships to U.S. citizens who are matriculating in an AACSB-accredited school of business. Scholarships are awarded in two categories:

• The foundation awards scholarships to worthy students who choose to pursue a graduate or undergraduate degree in marketing. 
• The foundation is particularly interested in supporting the education of U.S. veterans by awarding them scholarships, especially those who hold a Combat Infantry Badge, suffered serious injury due to combat action, received a Purple Heart, serves or served with honor and distinction, or were honorably discharged from military service. Veterans pursuing scholarships on this basis do not need to be majoring in marketing or business to be considered.

The Robert Balk Scholarship provides assistance to students with a physical disability. To be considered, contact UB Accessibility Resources via email or call 716-645-2608.

A six-time Paralympian with six medals, Robert Balk, BS ’88, is the former chairperson of the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Athletes’ Council, and a former member of the IPC Governing Board, the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes Commission, and the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Athletes Advisory Council. Professionally, Balk is a venture capital investor, entrepreneur and corporate executive.

The UB MBA is pleased to be able to offer the Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship for high achieving MBA underrepresented minority applicants. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, be enrolled in the UB MBA full-time, and have a cumulative undergraduate GPA minimum of 3.0 or better at enrollment. All eligible students are considered for the award, which consists of a tuition award and a stipend, for a total value of $23,500.

There are numerous other scholarships and fellowships available for highly qualified graduate students. Visit The Graduate School's website for more information.