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Student Experiences

Service Brings Great Returns

By Melissa Een
March 04, 2026
During the 2025 tax season, more than a hundred SOA students from BYU Marriott helped community members file their taxes for free through the VITA lab. These students filed almost 1,000 tax returns, helping to share light as they empathized and advocated for others through the tax return process, says Jon Kerr, the VITA lab faculty advisor.
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Student Experiences

Marketable Skills and Christlike Service

By Melissa Een
March 03, 2026
The Marketing Association at BYU Marriott hosted its annual Christmas social in December 2025. This year, for BYU’s 150th anniversary, students had a focus beyond celebrating the end of a semester: service.
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Student Experiences

Adding to the Legacy: Entrepreneurship through the Rollins Center

By Kiana Aquino
March 02, 2026
Peyton Jackson and other student entrepreneur find support in building their businesses from Christlike predecessors and an entrepreneurial culture at the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Student Experiences

IS Students Integrate Skills into Service

By Kiana Aquino
February 26, 2026
From pinning vests to programming websites, information systems (IS) students at the BYU Marriott School of Business worked with a local nonprofit to help people experiencing homelessness stay warm in the winter.
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Student Experiences

Diffusing Light through Finance Mentoring

By Bryan Ross
February 19, 2026
“It’s a beautiful thing,” says Professor of Finance Taylor Nadauld as he describes how finance students at the BYU Marriott School of Business mentor each other.
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Student Experiences

International Business Students Enter to Learn to Go Forth to Serve

By Bryan Ross
February 18, 2026
Through the Wilford A. Cardon International Sponsorship, more than 400 students from more than 50 countries have earned graduate-level education from BYU Marriott. As students enter to learn gospel-centered business principles, they prepare to go forth and serve in their home countries.
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Peer-to-Peer Leadership: How Peer Advisors Are Reaching Pre-Business Students

By Elizabeth Walker
February 16, 2026
Peer advisors rely on their own BYU Marriott experiences to help pre-business students seeking light and advice on an individual level.
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Student Experiences

Mindfulness at BYU Marriott

By Shannon Keeley
February 12, 2026
At BYU Marriott, some of the brightest insights emerge when new questions meet familiar problems—and when students have a seat at the research table.
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Student Experiences

An Express Lane to Experience

By Bryan Ross
February 12, 2026
The clock read 1 a.m., and Nathan Jessop was still wrestling to finish the financial report his internship sponsor was expecting the next day. The thought came: Ask for help. But he resisted.
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Student Experiences

A Hub of Helping Hands

By Melissa Een
February 12, 2026
A collection of online resources designed and built primarily by BYU Marriott students is helping accounting professionals around the world. During the past decade, BYU’s accounting Hubs—five websites that host hundreds of student-written articles and practical exercises—have racked up more than three million page views.
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Lifting Each Other Up: How the Women in Strategy Association Builds Community

By Elizabeth Walker
January 30, 2026
"WSA gives strategy students that circle of support—people they can bring their hard questions to, celebrate wins with, and lean on during tough days,” says BYU Marriott assistant professor Lena Lizunova.
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A World of Opportunities

By Bryan Ross
January 23, 2026
Regardless of what businesses they visit or what activities they participate in, BYU Marriott students who participate in the annual Business Semester in Italy and Europe make connections while immersing themselves in new cultures.
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Résumé Builder

By Elizabeth Walker
December 18, 2025
Since the on-campus internship program formed in 2007, more than 15,000 students have been able to gain class credit—and real-world business experience—through the BYU Marriott School of Business.
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Life-Changing Laptops

By Bryan Ross
December 05, 2025
Brigham Young University students Grady Call, Morgan Topham, and Deven Gogarty found some truth to the motto, “The world is our campus,” as they competed in the Computers for Change Case Competition, hosted by the BYU Marriott School of Business’s Whitmore Global Business Center. “It’s been a really cool feeling to be able to work on things that can have a real difference in Africa,” Call says.
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Student Experiences

Building a Brand(ing Course)

By Bryan Ross
November 25, 2025
Before many of them start their first internship, BYU Marriott MBA students who take MBA 657: Brand Management Strategy already have hands-on experience solving problems and acting as brand manangers for brands, such as Hershey’s and Indian Motorcycle.
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