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Graduate School Scholarship

Graduate Schools of Banking and Trust Scholarships

The 2017 nominations are due by midnight on December 9, 2016. Please send by email to [email protected]


Each year, the CSBS Education Foundation (CSBSEF) conducts a competition to award scholarships to three state banking department personnel to attend the graduate school of banking or graduate trust school of their choice. Nomination forms and instructions on competing for this prestigious award are sent to each state banking department commissioner and training director.

CSBSEF accepts nominations from state bank supervisors of qualified departmental personnel for its Graduate Banking and Graduate Trust School Scholarship Award and Samuel E. Weinrott Memorial and Bill Ford Memorial Scholarship programs.

The complete program description, containing contact information, qualifications, and program procedures, and the nomination form can be accessed in the links below. The nomination form may be duplicated or entered into a computer and completed; however, the format must remain as in the original.

Each state may submit up to three (3) nominations for graduate banking and/or graduate trust scholarships.

 

About the Graduate Schools of Banking and Trust

History

In 1972, the Board of Directors of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) authorized a program to reward outstanding and deserving examiners who demonstrate excellence in their work by supporting their attendance at the graduate banking or graduate trust school of their choice. The Board of Trustees of the CSBS Education Foundation (CSBSEF) assumed responsibility for administering this program from CSBS.

The program is designed to:

  • Encourage and assist qualified bank and trust examiners to prepare themselves for expanded duties and responsibilities in their banking departments;
  • Broaden the examiner’s understanding of banking or trust operations;
  • Encourage excellence in bank and trust examination;
  • Provide the opportunity for State Bank Supervisors to recognize their outstanding examiners; and,
  • Raise the level of proficiency of state banking departments.
     

The Award

The Award is a scholarship to the Graduate Banking School and Graduate Trust Program of choice funded by CSBSEF and covers the actual annual costs up to $3,000 for tuition, registration fees, lodging, board, text materials, transportation and other related items such as graduation expenses for the top three applicants. In addition, the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado will provide a $1,250 scholarship per year of attendance to the fourth place winner to attend their graduate banking program.

The term of the Graduate Banking School and Graduate Trust Program award is up to three consecutive years depending on the school curriculum and assuming the recipient attends each session and satisfactorily completes problems assigned during the two and three-year courses, and remains employed by a state banking department.

Graduate School Locations

The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado
University of Colorado, Boulder

The National School of Banking (Formerly the National School of Saving Banking)
Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut

The Graduate School of Banking
University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Pacific Coast Banking School
University of Washington, Seattle

The Southwestern Graduate School of Banking
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

The Stonier Graduate School of Banking
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

The Graduate School of Banking of the South
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

 

 

Each state may submit up to three (3) nominations for graduate banking and/or graduate trust scholarships. If you have any questions or need more information about the program, please refer to the program description link above.