What GATE is and Why You Should Go
Sawubona! One of my passions has always been traveling and exploring new places. Before enrolling at Duke, I had visited more than 20 countries, and my goal is to get to 30 before graduating. To... Read More
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What to Expect During a Campus Visit
There are so many great business schools throughout the world, and it can be hard to set a target list of schools. As an international student who has lived on the opposite side of the... Read More
5 Things You Should Know Before Applying
1. As much as you read about it and think you know what "Team Fuqua" is, you don’t until you experience it. I had my first Team Fuqua experience when I was still a prospective... Read More
The Ultimate Global Academic Travel Experience
Prior to business school, I had never traveled outside the United States. I came to Fuqua wanting to challenge myself to try new things, and I knew that going on a Global Academic Travel Experience... Read More
How Second-Year MBA Students Impact the Business School Experience
At Fuqua, my business school experience has been transformational rather than transactional. This is due in large part to the work of second-year MBA students throughout the community. Second-year students pass on their wisdom, experience, and advice to... Read More
Bootcamp: An Intensive Study of Health Care
When I told my friends and coworkers that I was starting my first MBA classes on July 17, a Sunday, they thought I was crazy. But that was when the Health Sector Management (HSM) Bootcamp... Read More
Benefitting from a Collaborative Environment
Making decisions is hard. Every single thing we choose eliminates all other possibilities. This is life. When deciding which business school was the right place for me, I evaluated several factors. Among them was diversity—was... Read More
Wednesdays: Your ‘Day Off’ at Fuqua
One of the unique things about Fuqua is that students don’t have classes on Wednesdays. I thought my first Wednesday off would be a time to work out, cook for the week and … be... Read More
A Week in the Life of a Fuqua MBA Student
Someone recently asked me to describe a typical day as a Fuqua MBA student. One thing I’ve learned over the last 7 months is that days move at lightning speed. Almost every student (myself included!) juggles... Read More
Benefits of the Unique Fuqua Class Schedule
A question I often get is, why does Fuqua have Wednesdays off from class? Why not Friday like many other B-schools? Once you understand how valuable the midweek break is to your schedule it makes... Read More