Why Give?

Investing in the Future of Business

Your support of the Leeds School of Business helps strengthen the education and career successes of future business leaders. Here's a look at the impact your generosity helps make possible.

 
$6M+ in Scholarships

Awarded to undergraduate and graduate students in 2023-24.

  
1,200 Leeds Students

Leeds awarded over 2,000 scholarship awards to 1,214 students.

  
1,236 Alumni

Made a gift to Leeds last fiscal year. Join you fellow alumni in supporting the Leeds student experience.

Contributions to Leeds provide funding for scholarships, technology, academic programs and more. Here's how to get started.

2023-2024 Impact Report

Donors help Leeds continue to support its academic and research missions amid constant change. Here's a look at how your support creates impact.

Contact the Office of Advancement

Get in touch with the Advancement team at Leeds School of Business: 303.735.4517.

How Scholarships Create Impact

Scholarships represent a life-changing opportunity for future business leaders. Here, three Leeds scholarship winners share how donor support helped them explore new avenues, take on extracurricular challenges and take deeper dives into their career interests.

 

Anna Bedell

Anna Bedell sees her scholarships as an investment in her education—but also her future.

Will Xu

Donors' generosity taught Will Xu the value of paying it forward.

Maggie Rodney

For Maggie Rodney, scholarships offered freedom to fully immerse herself as an MBA student.

Fiscal Year 2022 Donor Impact
 

 
2,539 donors

Made investements in the Leeds School of Business.

 
$5.6M in Scholarships

Awarded to students during the 2022-23 academic year.

 
$19.6M 

Invested in Leeds (including $8.4 million in estate gifts).

Every Gift Makes an Impact

The Leeds community thrives on innovation and momentum—foundational attributes of 91´«Ã½â€™s unique identity. In partnership with generous supporters, we continue to build and support an active, impactful community.

Please join us in our mission to positively transform the future of global business by inspiring and educating next generation business leaders and creating impactful knowledge. We are committed to advancing the chancellor’s three strategic imperatives for 91´«Ã½ and making top-quality business education available to deserving students.

The Leeds giving story

The naming gift for the Leeds School of Business set the school on a track that’s equipped its student, alumni and faculty to bring invaluable perspectives to the changing world of work. Just after Michael Leeds and his family announced the gift, in 2001, the Enron scandal made clear that the phrase “business ethics†had become an oxymoron. The gift instilled within the school a purpose and a mission to consider ethics a core business skill, like finance or marketing. For more than 20 years, Leeds has emphasized ethics, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability—demonstrating the business case for these values long before they made it to the C-suite. Now, as industry confronts an age of A.I., climate change and increasing geopolitical tension, Leeds and its graduates are better prepared than ever to ensure business has a seat at the table in solving the greatest challenges of tomorrow. Meet Michael Leeds

Diversity Efforts

With a vision for inclusive excellence, the Office of Diversity Affairs (ODA) plays a crucial role at Leeds. ODA helps bridge the education gap for students who have demonstrated strong potential, but have limited access to rigorous high school preparation resources. ODA programs prepare these students to excel by providing challenging programming and extraordinary support, helping to recruit and retain underrepresented and first-generation students while setting them up for career success.

End the Gap is a comprehensive recruitment strategy to help Leeds attract more female students and empower them to succeed in school and on the job. Leeds is committed to increasing access to business education for women, providing strong female role models and increasing career readiness so that women are prepared to create, develop and lead the next big idea.

Being global not only requires an understanding of various markets, cultures, and geopolitical systems, it also requires a mindset open to new ideas and new ways of thinking. At Leeds, the First-Year Global Experience program is key to taking the classroom experience to the global stage.

At Leeds, we are committed to making a best-in-class business education accessible to all students. Donor-funded scholarships enable Leeds to attract top students by removing barriers to education, unlocking untold potential and innovation for the future of business. When it comes to recruiting the best, brightest and most diverse class, scholarship awards influence students’ decisions to come to Leeds more than any other factor. For some, they make Leeds financially accessible. For all, they are a demonstration of the school’s investment in their potential and future success.

Scholarships by the numbers: 

  • 1,798 donor-funded scholarships awarded to Leeds students in FY22.
  • $5,000 starting award amount for positively influencing an admitted student's decision to come to Leeds.
  • $7,000 approximate gap in tuition "sticker price" between Leeds and our public school competitors.

Donors like you recognize the life-changing potential of a business degree. Please join us with an investment in student scholarships to make the opportunity and prosperity of a Leeds education accessible for future generations.

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Giving to the Leeds School of Business directly impacts the programs, faculty and student opportunities that comprise the Leeds experience.