Management Scholarships

You’ve worked hard to build a strong academic record, so when it comes to financing your education, your hard work can pay off through management scholarships. Western scholarships are based on academic record and financial need.

The Department of Management offers a variety of scholarships that you can easily find through WMU's scholarship matching tool, ScholarshipUniverse. Click the link below to start the process. Learn more about financial aid.

The scholarships below are open to receive applications from December 1, 2024 to February 17, 2025.

Thank you, donors!

Your gifts to the Department of Management scholarship fund directly contribute to student success. Whether it's one-time or a recurring gift, anyone can make a difference for our students by donating to scholarships.

Management student and faculty member standing with a scholarship award trophy.

This scholarship will allow me to focus on my passions within my professional and personal life.

—Haley Jackson, human resource management student

Management scholarships

This award provides funding for students who have distinguished themselves in scholarship, service to the department or other worthy endeavors. Undergraduate students majoring or minoring in a management discipline are eligible. One of the awards will be given as an MBA achievement award to an eligible graduate student. Eligible students must be nominated by Department of Management faculty members or the department chair.

This award provides funding for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in a management discipline. It is available for tuition, books, fees, conference attendance or any other educational activities.

This award is given to human resource management majors who demonstrate scholarship (3.5 GPA or higher), leadership, interpersonal and communications skills and who plan to work as HR managers. Students must be junior level or above.

Students (3.5 GPA and higher) who are enrolled in the B.B.A. program with a major within the Department of Management are eligible for this award. Students must demonstrate leadership through student organizations or other activities and positions. Preference will be given to students planning to pursue an MBA degree.

This scholarship recognizes and rewards outstanding leadership and business strategy students who lead with values and who, after graduating, plan to lead with values in their profession, business or vocation to improve the lives of customers, their community and society as a whole. 

This annual award is presented to an undergraduate student majoring or minoring in leadership and business strategy or human resource management who exemplifies ethics and leadership within the B.B.A. program.

This award goes to a full-time or part-time upper-class student with a major or minor in a management discipline. This student must exemplify a commitment to the principle of “paying it forward” by exhibiting a positive attitude toward others and the future, and a balanced life related to family, friends, work, education, athletics and the arts. Most importantly, the recipient must live boldly in the world with a determination to be a positive change agent in all accomplishments.

This award, established by an alumnus of the department, provides scholarship funds to full-time majors within the Department of Management with junior or senior status and is based on outstanding academic achievement.

This achievement award was established by the founding dean of the college of business and his family. Undergraduate students majoring or minoring in leadership and business strategy or human resource management are eligible. This award is provided for juniors and seniors who demonstrate outstanding leadership, scholarship and service qualities.

This award provides funding to a student who has demonstrated academic achievement and leadership. Students must be at the junior level or above and have a major in the Department of Management.

Other scholarships for business students

Western Michigan University students majoring in any business program may apply for Haworth College of Business scholarships.