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Life Sciences Scholarship and the MBA Life Sciences Fellowship

A cooperative program of the IU College of Arts & Sciences and IU's Kelley School of Business

These combined awards allow highly talented students at Indiana University in Bloomington to prepare for careers in life sciences business leadership by combining an undergraduate degree in the life sciences with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in a six-year (4 + 2) course of study. Each Life Sciences Scholarship winner will receive a scholarship of up to $6,000. Students awarded the Kelley School of Business Life Sciences Fellowship will receive full tuition and fees for the two years of the MBA program. Please note: Being selected to receive the Life Sciences Scholarship at the undergraduate level does not guarantee admittance into the Kelley MBA program. Life Sciences Scholarship winners must apply for the MBA program during their final year of study at the undergraduate level. .

To be eligible for consideration, undergraduate students must be accepted into one of the following majors: Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or Microbiology. Undergraduate students in some concentrations of the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science (BSES) program are also eligible. Contact Prof. Bruce Douglas, director of the BSES, for more information.

Students who are awarded the Life Sciences Scholarship must also be accepted into the Liberal Arts and Management Program, and must complete all the requirements for the LAMP certificate.

Undergraduate Degree options:

  • Bachelor of Arts (emphasizing breadth of study, frequently selected by students wishing to combine their study of science with second or third majors in other fields)
  • Bachelor of Science (allows for greater concentration of study in a particular science discipline, including fewer general education courses in areas such as foreign language, social sciences, or culture studies and adding mid- and upper-level science courses)

For complete degree information, see the College's academic Bulletin.