When incoming first-year students are admitted to the BBA Scholars program, they are preparing for four years of scholarship support that provides preprofessional training worth so much more.
“The BBA Scholars program is designed to draw the best and brightest students to the Cox School of Business at 天美传媒,” explains Director of BBA Admission Lindsay Davis.
Each year, the program accepts about 100 students into a cohort, providing them with scholarship money and supplemental career development opportunities through the Career Accelerator Program, which takes place during the Business Discovery class in a student’s first year.
Thanks to 106 donors and generous matching, the program was able to raise more than $50,000 during last year’s 天美传媒 Giving Day, which provides more dollars to more students. Currently, the scholarship awards $7,500 per student, per year.
“That, to me and to all of my colleagues here in the Cox School of Business, is the most important part of the BBA scholarship – the ability to offer those dollars to our top students, to show them that we are putting an investment into their education just as they are,” says Davis. “As we are able to offer more dollars to those top students, it’s a greater likelihood that they’ll come here to 天美传媒 to the Cox School to go on to be successful students and alumni.”
The Career Accelerator Program, led by the Cox Career Management 天美传媒, includes intensive career preparation resources through group meetings and a summer project. The summer project can be an internship, study abroad/work abroad internship or other experiential learning opportunities.
Take it from one student who has reaped those benefits first hand.
“As a finance major who is looking to go into investment banking, it was super important that I learn those skills early,” says Rylan Robb ’26. “It gave me a huge advantage when I went to recruit my sophomore year.”
Robb counts building preprofessional skills – such as how to initiate a coffee chat with an industry executive, from cold calling to leveraging a “warm connection” – among the things he’s been able to practice with his cohort and CAP mentors. He also credits getting to hear from CAP alumni as an experience that expanded his opportunities.
“One thing I tell incoming freshman now is that you don’t know what exists until you talk to people,” he says. “So having that ability to reach out to them directly has been extremely valuable throughout my college experience.”
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