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Master of Public Administration (MPA) students at BYU’s Marriott School have more combined gender, cultural and ethnic diversity than ever before. About one of every five students admitted to the class of 2002 is an ethnic minority. Approximately one-third of the students are female. And, 21 percent are international students.
Despite being one teammate short, arriving at the competition with only five minutes to spare and having to begin planning their case in a car by flashlight, a team of three students from BYU’s Marriott School recently placed second at an international business ethics competition.
A class of Marriott School students has established the university’s first-ever endowed scholarship funded by a single class. With the help of matching contributions from the BYU Annual Fund campaign, the students contributed enough to form a scholarship endowment of $30,000.
In an economy characterized by receding retirement funds and a volatile stock market, a group of BYU MBA students beat the odds – and 18 other universities - to earn a 32 percent return on their portfolio. Sponsors of the competition, brokerage firm D.A. Davidson & Co., awarded the Marriott School's Peery Institute with a $7,000 check for successfully managing the company's $50,000 investment portfolio throughout last year.
MBA Students Win Thunderbird Innovation Challenge
The Marriott School at Brigham Young University announces ten MBA candidates as its 2004 Hawes Scholars. The honor, which carries a cash award of $10,000, is the highest distinction given to MBA students at the school.
Eighteen students from BYU’s Romney Institute of Public Management traveled to Ghana for a two-week educational field study and a chance to share their business knowledge with 12 local nonprofit organizations.
Six students from BYU's Marriott School of Management won second place and $2,000 at FedEx's supply chain competition.
Students presented their solution to a panel of city managers in an event that pitted them against other Utah schools.
While many Marriott School students take classes to learn research strategies, MPA student Jean Kapenda brings to graduate classes years of tried and tested real-world research from his extensive genealogy work.
Klymit and SchoolTipline won honors and cash awards at Global Moot Corp—the Super Bowl of business plan competitions.
Four Marriott School students are interning at the U. S. Treasury in a time of economic turmoil of historic proportions.
A new program at Brigham Young University is giving graduate students the chance to become board members of nonprofits in Utah Valley.
Mergers and acquisitions can be lucrative, as a team of BYU MBA students learned at the Smith MBA Competition in Maryland.
After competing in a rigorous contest, six Marriott School of Management undergraduate students heard those magic words: "You're hired."
A team of BYU marketing students placed third at the Wake Forest Undergraduate Case Challenge.
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
More than twenty BYU MBA and MPA students worked this spring to improve small businesses around the world.
For a handful of Marriott School students, a trip to Ghana exposed them to another corner of the world that needed their services.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
BYU's Romney Institute will host its first-ever local government fair Thursday, 7 January, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will attract local government leaders from across Utah.
Six MPA students were featured in The Salt Lake Tribune for conducting an economic development study for Eagle Mountain.
While a 234-mile trip may not be your average commute, students are increasingly willing to traverse state lines to earn a Marriott School graduate degree.
The country's first student-led program that connects philanthropic donors with deserving nonprofit organizations is up and running at BYU.