Consider the opportunities below to recommend the transformative Marquette University experience for someone you know and/or to return to Marquette University to pursue a Graduate School of Management master’s or certificate program for your own personal and professional growth.
Recommend a Future Student
Become the Difference, a Graduate School of Management Alumni Recommendation Scholarship
Through this opportunity to Be The Difference, Marquette alumni, faculty, and staff may recommend individuals in their networks for a Marquette University Graduate School of Management (GSM) degree or certificate program. Recommended students who meet eligibility criteria will be eligible to receive a $1,000 scholarship within their first semester of enrollment.
Alumni from any Marquette undergraduate or graduate degree program as well as faculty and staff from all areas of campus may recommend a future student. To recommend a future student, please complete this recommendation form. Following your form completion, GSM staff will review the recommendation and reach out directly to the recommended individual to share information about Marquette programs, the scholarship and the application fee waiver.
Scholarship Guidelines:
Marquette alumni, faculty and staff may submit multiple recommendations. The criteria to be considered an alumnus/a is completion of two semesters at Marquette University. Full-time and part-time faculty and staff are welcome to recommend future students.
The Become the Difference scholarship is available to students who are not Marquette alumni as defined by the Marquette Alumni Association.
The Become the Difference scholarship is a tuition scholarship.
Recommendations will be accepted through July 1, 2025 and may be awarded to students beginning a degree program in summer 2024 through fall 2025.
To receive the scholarship, recommended individuals will need to apply, be accepted within degree-seeking status, and begin a GSM degree or certificate program within one year following the recommendation. For example, the scholarship for a recommendation offered in spring 2025 could be used in summer or fall 2025.
To receive the scholarship, a recommendation needs to be received before an admission decision is entered by the GSM.
The Become the Difference scholarship will be awarded within a student’s first semester of enrollment and with a minimum enrollment of 3 credits. This is a one-time, nonrenewable scholarship.
The Become the Difference scholarship may be combined with other Marquette merit-based aid depending on program resources. Students who are receiving a full-tuition scholarship through another source are ineligible for the Become the Difference scholarship.
The Become the Difference scholarship may not be combined with a Return to Marquette scholarship (described below), may not be awarded to students transferring graduate-level credit into a GSM program, including transfer credit through Accelerated Degree Programs (ADP), and is not available to students eligible for tuition remission (see university policy and procedure 4-09 for detailed information), or organization-level tuition savings agreements between Marquette and the student's employer.
Return to Marquette for Graduate Business Studies
Return to Marquette, a Graduate School of Management Returning Alumni Scholarship
Alumni from any Marquette undergraduate or graduate degree program who begin a GSM degree or certificate program between summer 2023 and fall 2025 may access a $1,000 Return to Marquette scholarship. Alumni will also automatically receive an application fee waiver (applied within the application system once an application is started).
Scholarship Guidelines:
Scholarship offerings will begin in summer 2023.
The Return to Marquette scholarship is a tuition scholarship.
The criteria to be considered an alumnus/a is the completion of two semesters at Marquette University.
To receive the scholarship, Marquette alumni need to apply, be accepted within degree-seeking status, and begin a GSM degree or certificate program between summer 2023 and fall 2025.
The Return to Marquette scholarship will be awarded within a student’s first semester of enrollment and with a minimum enrollment of 3 credits. The scholarship is nonrenewable.
The Return to Marquette scholarship may be combined with other Marquette merit-based aid depending on program resources. Students who are receiving a full-tuition scholarship through another source are ineligible for the Return to Marquette scholarship.
The Return to Marquette scholarship may not be combined with the Become the Difference Scholarship (described above), may not be awarded to students transferring graduate-level credit into a GSM program, including transfer credit through Accelerated Degree Programs (ADP), and is not available to students eligible for tuition remission (see university policy and procedure 4-09 for detailed information) or organization-level tuition savings agreements between Marquette and the student's employer.
