The MBA Global Business Courses are an opportunity for students to expand their global mindset and global business savvy while immersed in an international context.
While traveling abroad with a professor, students visit companies to enhance their business acumen and apply their knowledge and skills to solve a cross-border, cross-cultural business challenge. Students choose courses based on opportunities to develop expertise in their area of interest and based on the opportunity to network with colleagues, faculty, and international company executives in their field.
Course Objectives:
- Develop a “global mindset,” an openness to and awareness of diversity across cultures and markets, with an ability to see common patterns.
- Sharpen your “global business savvy” by gaining substantive knowledge of business organizations and the institutions in a given country, region, or industry as well as the capacity to contextualize this knowledge in a comparative perspective.
- Gain career skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex challenge.
- Network with colleagues, faculty, alumni, and international company executives in your field of interest, while enhancing your cultural knowledge.
The location of the field experiences may change annually.
Fall registration opens on Tuesday, March 26 at 12:30 p.m.
Information Session: Friday, March 15 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Corrections from the Information Session:
- Fall registration opens on Tuesday, March 26 at 12:30 p.m.
- Spring registration for spring courses (Ex. the Costa Rica course) will open in late October 2024.
AY 2024-25 Portfolio
Dates Subject to Change
Fall-Spring Program Information (4* credit course)
2 credits, Fall Term B and 2 credits, Spring Term C (non-repeatable)
Cost for Fall: 2 credits of Tuition + $2975 program fee** + $525 Education Abroad Fee + $39 Health Insurance Fee
Cost for Spring: 2 credits of Tuition
- BUSI 788B GX01 Doing Business in Brazil, 4 credits
Faculty: Paulo Prochno
Locations: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dates on campus: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Tentative dates abroad: January 11 – 19, 2025 (Updated 03/26/2024) - BUSI 788J GX01 Doing Business in South Africa, 4 credits
Locations: Cape Town, South Africa and Johannesburg, South Africa
Faculty: Bennet Zelner
Dates on campus: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Tentative dates abroad: January 12 – 19, 2025 - BUSI 788W GX01 Doing Business in Asia, 4 credits
Locations: Bangkok, Thailand and Singapore
Faculty: Zhi-Long Chen
Dates on Campus: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Tentative dates abroad: January 3 – 12, 2025
*Students who register for the Fall 2 credits of the Global Business Experience will be automatically registered for the required Spring 2 credits.
**Program fees are tentative
Spring Program Information - Registration opens late October
2 credits, Spring Term C (non-repeatable)
Cost for Spring: 2 credits of Tuition + $2250 program fee* + $525 Education Abroad Fee + $39 Health Insurance Fee
- Doing Business in Costa Rica, 2 credits
Locations: San Jose, Costa Rica
Faculty: Bennet Zelner
Tentative dates abroad: Spring Break 2025 - March 16-22, 2025
*Travel dates and program fees are tentative
Students who would like to reserve their spot in the Spring program for Doing Business in Costa Rica are encouraged to complete their reservation here.
Scholarships and Funding
Students can apply for a $1,000 scholarship to apply towards the program fee. Additionally, each program will designate one logistical liaison, receiving a stipend of $1,800. Applications for both scholarships and liaison roles will be distributed early in the fall.