MONARCH SWITZERLAND
MGRI & MBS

ACCESS · AMBITION · OPPORTUNITY

Dean’s Scholarship Award

Eligible programmes and award conditions

The offer covers the Academic Doctorates, Applied Doctorates (including DCOACH), Executive Doctorate and Master’s Programmes listed on the tuition page. Post-Doctoral Programmes and the Executive MBA are excluded. MMI programmes and other executive education are outside this offer.

Additional fees are not covered. The Dean’s Scholarship may be combined with the separately approved 10% Women’s Scholarship, giving a total 30% reduction of the same eligible tuition amount. Support reduces tuition; it is not a cash payment.

The special provision replaces the separate needs-based application and assessment for this window only. For applications outside these dates, contact Admissions to confirm the applicable award terms.

MONARCH SWITZERLAND
MGRI & MBS

THE DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP · ACADEMIC LEGACY

Dr. Lee Dahringer

Professor Emeritus · Monarch’s first Dean

A career spanning business-school leadership, international education, research and teaching.

Dr. Lee Dahringer is Professor Emeritus at Monarch and previously served as Dean of the Faculty. Before joining Monarch, he was Dean of the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University in Maryland from 2001 to 2008. He also held deanships at West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics and Butler University’s College of Business Administration, where he held professorships in Marketing. At Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, he held several director positions.

He earned a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MBA from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a Bachelor of Science from Western Kentucky University. His academic interests encompass global, social and not-for-profit marketing, consumer issues and policy, product management, multinational workforces and academic administration.

His international experience includes directing the International MBA Programme at Nijenrode University in the Netherlands and visiting professorships at institutions including Innsbruck, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Bocconi, Queensland, HEC in France, Lund and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina, the University of Colorado and Iowa State University.

Dr. Dahringer has received research and teaching awards from several universities, chaired AACSB accreditation teams and served on councils of academic deans, faculty senates and curriculum task forces. His service includes the Board of Advisors of the Executive Women International Leadership Academy, programme review for the U.S. Department of Education and the Board of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools.

He has contributed to editorial and book-review activities for marketing and business journals and published books, book chapters, journal articles and papers on marketing. This breadth of academic service provides a fitting context for an award intended to help the next generation pursue advanced study and make their own scholarly contribution.

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MGRI & MBS

RESEARCH · DEDICATION · CONTRIBUTION

Supporting Women in Research

Your ideas. Your research. Your contribution.

The award supports aspiring, dedicated women across Monarch’s eligible doctoral and master’s-level academic programmes at MGRI and MBS. It welcomes research across the institution’s academic fields: a proposal does not need to concern gender or women’s issues.

An established leadership title is not required. Assessment considers motivation, commitment to advanced study and the potential to contribute through research, professional practice or community life. Financial need is not a requirement.

A separately assessed award

The Women’s Scholarship provides a 10% reduction of eligible tuition, subject to approval. Unlike the special Dean’s Scholarship provision, it is not automatic upon admission. Female researchers who receive academic acceptance may apply separately for the scholarship, using their programme Application ID and explaining their motivation, commitment and intended contribution.

Post-Doctoral Programmes, the Executive MBA, MMI programmes and other executive education are excluded. Additional fees are not covered. The formal award letter confirms covered tuition and conditions.

MONARCH SWITZERLAND
MGRI & MBS

ACADEMIC ACCEPTANCE · CLEAR NEXT STEPS

Your route to scholarship support.

Dean’s Scholarship: 1 October–31 December 2026

1. Submit your programme application within the stated period and retain your Application ID.

2. Monarch assesses academic eligibility against the programme’s normal admission requirements.

3. Upon admission to an eligible programme, the 20% Dean’s Scholarship applies automatically. No separate scholarship form or financial-need evidence is required for this offer.

Women’s Scholarship: a separate assessment

1. Apply to your programme and obtain academic acceptance.

2. From 1 October 2026, request the relevant Women’s Scholarship application details from Admissions. Use your Application ID to link the request to your accepted programme application.

3. Prepare a statement of motivation, commitment to advanced study and intended research, professional or community contribution. The award is assessed separately; academic acceptance alone does not guarantee this 10% award.

Plan your studies with confidence

Review current tuition and payment arrangements, select an appropriate programme and pathway, and contact Admissions if you need help understanding which provision applies. For Dean’s Scholarship applications outside the special three-month window, confirm the applicable assessment requirements before submitting a scholarship request.

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