Loans for International Students

Top schools are working and committed to find alternative funding for international students.

Stanford: Will the economy impact my ability to secure student loans?
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mba/blog/

GSB Admissions Blog: Loans for International Students
http://forums.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=GSBRoseBlog
https://sla.uchicago.edu/finaid/FAQs_LoanChange.html

Berkeley Haas: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/mba/finaid/ScholarshipEnter.htm

Citibank had cancelled the CitiAssist loans to MIT Sloan

According to the N.Y. Times, an e-mail message was sent on Monday to students at the MIT Sloan School of Management:

Dear Sloan M.B.A. student,

As a result of the nationwide credit crisis we regret that we must now notify all Sloan Master’s students that late last week MIT was notified that Citibank has exercised its 30-day option to cancel the CitiAssist custom student loan program with MIT Sloan, effective Nov. 2, 2008.

Students who have already had their loans processed and approved by Citibank appear to be safe, but those who were still securing financing may be in trouble. The school is now helping students scramble to find alternate financing.

Clear Admit informs that program ended at Cornell's Johnson, and this would also impact other schools (HBS and Wharton) that offer CitiAssist loans to international students without a co-signer.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/ ... -students/
http://www.bus.umich.edu/admissions/fin ... rivate.htm

B-School Ranking - The Economist

Rank	School
1	IMD(Switzerland)
2	IESE(Spain)
3	Chicago
4	Stanford
5	Dartmouth(Tuck)
6	Berkeley(Haas)
7	Cambridge(Judge)(U.K.)
8	NYU(Stern)
9	LBS(U.K)
10	IE Business School(Spain)
11	HKUST Business School(Hong Kong)
12	Harvard
13	Cranfield School of Management(U.K)
14	Vlerick Leuven Gent(Belgium)
15	Schulich School of Business
16	Northwestern(Kellogg)
17	Penn(Wharton)
18	MIT(Sloan)
19	INSEAD(France;Singapore)
20	Henley Management College(U.K)
21	Columbia
22	Michigan(Ross)
23	Warwick Business School(U.K)
24	Ashridge(U.K)
25	UVA(Darden)

Link: http://mba.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=2008rankings

B-School Ranking - Financial Times

Rank	Financial Times 2008 Rankings
1	Penn(Wharton)
2	LBS(U.K)
3	Columbia
4	Stanford
5	Harvard
6	INSEAD(France;Singapore)
7	MIT(Sloan)
8	InstitutodeEmpresa(Spain)
9	Chicago
10	Cambridge(Judge)(U.K.)
11	CEIBS(China)
12	IESE(Spain)
13	NYU(Stern)
14	IMD(Switzerland)
15	Dartmouth(Tuck)
16	Yale
17	HKUST Business School
18	HECParis(France)
19	Oxford(Saïd)(U.K.)
20	ISB(India)
21	ESADE(Spain)
22	LUMS(U.K)
22	Manchester(U.K.)
24	Northwestern(Kellogg)
25	UCLA(Anderson)

Link: http://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankings