Financing Your Education

As a sponsor of the Forté Foundation, MIT Sloan is committed to the advancement of women in leadership. The MIT Sloan Fellows MBA shares this commitment and offers Forté Foundation fellowships each year to outstanding female candidates who demonstrate leadership in their community, academic institution, and/or place of work. All female applicants to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA are automatically considered for these partial-tuition awards.

A limited number of Dean's fellowships are available to MIT Sloan Fellows MBA and are awarded to admitted candidates of all citizenships and academic backgrounds. All admitted candidates are considered for these merit-based fellowships.

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship is pleased to offer financial assistance to select entrepreneurial graduate students at MIT. Their application process is separate from the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA admissions. The Legatum Fellowship is open to all MIT graduate students. You must demonstrate a commitment to starting a business in a low-income country after graduation. 

The Nippon Foundation’s International Fellowship provides Japanese nationals working in the public or private sector opportunities to further studies in overseas educational institutions.

The Kennedy Memorial Trust provides scholarships to British post-graduates to pursue their studies at MIT and/or Harvard. The Kennedy Scholarship is an academic award used to fund a wide variety of academic programs. Scholars use the opportunity to deepen their expertise in their field. Those applying for awards must be all of the following:

• British citizens at the time of application
• Ordinarily resident in the UK
• Wholly or mainly educated in the UK

The Action, Impact, and Motivation (AIM) Scholarship is a post-graduate scholarship for Sloan Fellows MBA students to complete a social impact project in India upon graduation. The scholarship awards up to $20,000 to a team of 1-2 SFMBA students who want to test and implement ideas and solutions aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.

The AIM scholarship was created and instituted by Shweta Aprameya, SFMBA '19, and her brother, Saumitra Pandey, in honor of their parents, Anup Pande and Usha Pande, as part of the Anusha Welfare Trust.

MIT Sloan offers $25,000 scholarships, with $25,000 in matching funds from the VA, to all veterans of the U.S. military who meet the VA eligibility requirements for the Yellow Ribbon program. For more information, please contact Josh DeMaio (jkdemaio@mit.edu) or visit the program website.