"When you look at the United Nations and parallel it to the Thunderbird experience, you have individuals from many cultures coming together, sharing their viewpoints, their culture, their language and their thinking. And students on campus coming together and really participating in that experience grow and learn from each other. We get to learn how to tolerate different ideas. We get to communicate crossfunctionally. We get to collaborate. And we get to work together to create something that’s bigger than ourselves that will serve as lessons for a lifetime."

— Jake Taylor, ’06

Scholarships

Pellagia Muliba '09, one of the first recipients in the Thunderbird Alumni Scholars program

Providing World-class Education for Students Around the Globe ($25 Million)

A core value of a Thunderbird education is to provide students with the ability to work successfully with those from diverse cultures and to manage effectively in different social, economic and political environments. A Thunderbird education comes as much from interaction among diverse students as it does from case studies, lectures, internships and textbooks. These experiences set T-birds apart from their peers.

Thunderbird students have come from Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Panama, Thailand and many other locales. Diverse, entrepreneurial, creative, motivated and vibrant, T-birds have always formed a community that engages fully in, and contributes to, the learning process.

Historically, tuition has paid the vast majority of bills at Thunderbird. A sustainable scholarship endowment fund will relieve the financial burden for students and allow Thunderbird to compete for the world's best and brightest. The cost of a Thunderbird education currently makes it out of reach for many prospective students from around the world who could otherwise become effective global leaders. While we have been fortunate to attract top students throughout our history, we have not been able to seek out and offer assistance to many of the world's emerging leaders.

Funds raised for scholarships will allow Thunderbird to welcome students from additional regions – especially from those that may be falling behind in reaping the benefits of the global economy – into our community. It is, in fact, the diversity of our students that contributes to enriching the learning environment and advancing Thunderbird's mission.

Building Thunderbird's scholarship fund by $25 million – comprised of $1 million of annual scholarship funds over the duration of the campaign, plus $20 million of endowed funds in order to secure $1 million in perpetuity – would increase today's scholarship pool by 25 percent without imposing an additional burden on the school's budget.

To recognize donors, every endowed scholarship will be in the name of the donor, family member or organization. Donors of $1,000 or more are also recognized through membership in the Thunderbird Global Leadership Society. Members of the society are highlighted in the school's Annual Report to donors and are invited to special events hosted by the school.

List of Scholarships

Students interested in finding out more about available scholarships should contact Thunderbird's Financial Aid and/or Admissions offices.
All donor funded scholarships are open to Full-time MBA (Traditional and Accelerated), Dual and Post MBA degree students except:
* Also open to MA/MS program students
** Also open to EMBA program students
† Only open to Distance Learning MBA for Latin American Managers program students
†† Only open to MA/MS program students
††† Also open to MS program students
‡Only open to EMBA program students

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