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• Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley: The Haas School has created a new Berkeley MBA Student Loan Program, which will provide no-cosigner loans for U.S. and international students in the full-time MBA program at Berkeley. Modeled on the Federal Direct Loan, the new loan program will provide loans of up to $20,000 a year with an interest rate of 6.8 percent, repayable over ten years. No interest will accrue while loan recipients are in enrolled in the MBA program, and there will be a six-month post-graduation grace period for repayment.

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• Fuqua School of Business at Duke University: On May 11th, Fuqua announced on its website that international students will be able to secure loans for their studies at Fuqua without the need for a U.S. cosigner. “We have a solution in hand that will meet students’ needs, with terms similar to those offered for the current academic year,” according to the website. To date, details and terms of that program have not been shared publicly.