Duke Daytime MBA Student Blog

I found many exciting and compelling opportunities to develop professional skills and abilities through experiential learning.

There is a lot to learn in the classroom, but nothing compares to putting your knowledge and skills to the test in the real world.

Coming from an energy and financial services background, I knew I needed to develop my functional skills further, regardless of my industry of choice.

Fuqua has multiple experiential learning opportunities, and I recommend students explore these opportunities to find the right fit for them.

I worked with teammates from diverse backgrounds, ranging from management consulting to private equity, to help position a surgical robot against a competitor.

Being on the Kirby Selection Committee gave me a new perspective of scaling social enterprises and funding decisions.

The opportunity to get my hands dirty working on a real-life business problem, and see the impact we were making in real-time, went far beyond classroom learning for me.

I have always been very curious about the skills I would need for a career in private equity, but I came to Fuqua with very little knowledge of the field.

I came to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business with the goal of building out my strategy skillset.

Experiential learning provides a great platform to interact with and potentially help solve real-world problems as a business school student.