College of Business Administration

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

High school graduates who expect to enroll in the College of Business Administration are encouraged to make application for scholarships made available to freshmen by individuals, business firms, and organizations. Also available to freshmen, regardless of degree program, are freshmen academic scholarships. Information on these financial awards may be secured from the Office of Financial Aid.

Other scholarships from different sources are made available to students in the College of Business Administration. These awards are enumerated below by department.

Accounting. In the Department of Accounting, approximately 35-50 scholarships ranging from $150 to $1,000 are awarded primarily to juniors for financial support during the senior year. Applications for these scholarships are made available by the accounting faculty to accounting majors enrolled in junior level accounting classes. The scholarships are funded through the Accounting Education and Research Fund supported by former students, employers of accounting students, and many other good friends of the Department.

Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis. The Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis is able to award annual scholarship funds to deserving students from funds received from Conoco, Phillips Petroleum Company, and the Department.

Economics. Students majoring in economics may apply for the James A. Williams and John P. Lake Scholarship awards.

Finance. In the Department of Finance, for finance majors in the real estate option, there are tuition scholarships from Arkansas and Fayetteville Board of Realtors and the Norma Beasley Fund. Finance majors in the banking option are eligible for the scholarship of the Arkansas Bankers Association ($2,500), the Ethel Harper Phillips Scholarship Fund and the Betty Clark Banking Award.

Management. The Department of Management awards scholarship funds to students majoring in management and general business. The various scholarships include the Thomas E. Boyer Scholarship, the Sylvia and Thomas Boyer Scholarship for students from Fort Smith, the Carol A. Fitchette-Asprey Scholarship, the H.C. Schmieding Scholarship, and the NOARK Human Resource Management Scholarship.

Marketing. Through the Department of Marketing, students may apply for awards given through the department to transportation and marketing majors such as the Rosenberg Scholarship in Marketing.

Current scholarship information is available in the Dean's office, BADM 328. Additional scholarships are available, both college wide and departmentally.

Dick Norris Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 is awarded to an outstanding candidate for the M.B.A. who is pursuing a career in finance. The Arkansas Purchasing Management Association grants a $1,400 scholarship to a candidate for the Ph.D. degree with emphasis in marketing. Other national fellowships and grants are available to doctoral students, primarily to those at the dissertation stage.

Additional information and applications for any of the above listed awards may be obtained from the Graduate Studies Office.