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Manchester Business School scholarships

MBS Scholarships

Amount: £7,500 or £15,000     

Criteria

1) Academic achievement which also include 600+ GMAT Score
2) Career accomplishment and progression
3) Professional and cultural diversity
4) Demonstrate leadership skills
5) Quality of application question answers
6) Interview performance
7) Proven aptitude for creativity and innovation
8) Potential to contribute to the practical learning experience and professional and cultural diversity of the programme.

Frank Martin Scholarships 

Amount: £15,000   

Number of Awards: 2

Criteria

1) UK Citizen students
2) Based on academic achievement and career accomplishment and progression
3) Demonstrate leadership skills
4) Aptitude for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship

P.S: Special consideration will be given to candidates who can demonstrate links with the North West of England.

Manchester Loyalty Bursary
 
Amount: 20% fee discount

Criteria

1) All candidates who hold an undergraduate or postgraduate degree from Manchester University, UMIST or Victoria Universities.

Scholarships are considered for Applicants:

1) Whose Application is complete (including any test scores)
2) Who have formally been offered a place on the 2010 Full-time Manchester MBA Programme.
3) Who apply early in the admissions round are more likely to receive an award.

HSBC Professional Studies loan

HSBC Bank offers a Professional Studies loan to postgraduate MBA students. Available only to HSBC Bank current account holders.

NatWest MBA loan scheme

Open to residents of the UK, this loan, administered by the Association of MBAs on behalf of NatWest Bank, can cover the cost of your course and personal expenses whilst on your MBA. Call 0800 015 1166 for further information.

Career development loan

A deferred repayment commercial bank loan of up to £8,000 offered by the Department for Education and Skills in partnership with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Call 0800 585 505 for further informatio.

Atul Jose F1GMAT's FounderAbout the Author 

I am Atul Jose, Founding Consultant of F1GMAT, an MBA admissions consultancy that has worked with applicants since 2009.

For the past 15 years I have edited the application files of admits to the M7 programs: Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia Business School, together with admits to Berkeley Haas, Yale School of Management, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Duke Fuqua, Darden, Tuck, IMD, London Business School, INSEAD, SDA Bocconi, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, McCombs, and Tepper, plus other programs inside the global top 30.

 

My work covers the full MBA application deliverable: career planning and profile evaluation, application essay editing, recommendation letter editing, mock interviews and interview preparation, scholarship and fellowship essay editing, and cover letter editing for funding applications. Full bio with credentials and admit history is here.

 

I am the author of the Winning MBA Essay Guide, the best-selling essay guide covering M7 MBA programs. I have written and updated the guide annually since 2013, which makes the 2026 edition the thirteenth.

 

The reason I still write and edit essays every cycle: a good MBA essay carries a real applicant's voice. Writing essays for F1GMAT's Books and Editing essays weekly is how I stay calibrated to what current admissions committees respond to.

 

Contact me for school selection, career planning, essay strategy, narrative development, essay editing, interview preparation, scholarship essay editing, or guidance documents for recommendation letters.