Supporting our students

Our students need and deserve your support for several reasons.

First, earning a Sargent degree is an intensive and expensive process. Most of our students receive aid in the form of scholarships or loans. Because salaries upon graduation tend to be relatively modest, we make every effort to maximize scholarships and minimize loans, thereby keeping our young graduates’ debt burdens as low as possible. But we need to do more, especially for our students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

You can provide scholarship support either through current-use giving or the creation of a named endowed fund, which at BU requires a minimum investment of $100,000. Undergraduate scholarships are awarded centrally and—in the case of endowments— may be matched by the University’s Century Challenge program. Graduate-level scholarships are awarded at the school and college level and can reflect donor preferences regarding field of study.

Finally, your support can help expand experiential, field-based, and international service-learning opportunities. You can make it possible for students to gain valuable realworld experience in their fields of study—and at the same time, make a real difference in the communities they are serving. At our affiliated clinical sites, students sharpen their skills and broaden their perspectives. And this life-changing experience can happen almost anywhere in the world. In the last decade, for example, students have traveled to Thailand, India, Peru, Ghana, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Belize.

These experiences—available to both undergraduate and graduate students at Sargent—are made possible in part by donor generosity.