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Student Experiences 2023 2021
Three BYU Marriott ExDM seniors spent their summers gaining valuable experience and practicing the skills they learned in the ExDM program as interns across the country.
For bilingual students who want to couple their language skills with business knowledge, BYU Marriott's global business and literacy minor can help students accomplish that goal.
Taylor Halverson describes the course, Entrepreneurship 113: Startup Bootcamp, as “learning the scientific method for how to launch a business.”
A group of BYU Army ROTC students finished tenth out of more than forty teams in the April 2021 Sandhurst Challenge at West Point, New York.
BYU Marriott IS student teams excelled at this year's national AIS competition, placing in the top three of their respective categories.
Every year, BYU students have the opportunity to enhance their international relations and business knowledge and skills by earning the global business certificate offered through the Whitmore Global Business Center (GBC) at the BYU Marriott School of Business.

Though students at the BYU Marriott haven't been able to meet together in person like they normally would, students in the EMPA program managed to find a way to get together.

A unique course offered at BYU Marriott is helping to teach students about the importance of diversity and inclusion.

The New Venture Challenge allowed student entrepreneurs to present their future plans for the growth of their businesses to a panel of judges.

The Whitmore Global Business Center at BYU Marriott announced that eleven MBA students were recently recognized as the 2021 Eccles Scholars.

Giving students the unique chance to improve lives through joint efforts with nonprofit organizations, the Ballard Center helps students find purpose in helping others through its social innovation projects.

Ten students were named as 2021 Hawes Scholars, an honor that carries the highest distinction given to MBA students at BYU Marriott.

Students from various high schools teamed up to submit their presentations and business plans to the 2021 Virtual High School Language Competition hosted by the Global Business Center.

A victory at the Utah SHRM Case Competition marked back-to-back wins for undergraduate students, and a graduate team also took first place.

The Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business MBA program has awarded ten students with the 2021 George E. Stoddard Prize, an award given to first- and second-year students in the BYU Marriott MBA program.

A group of BYU Marriott students recently looked at past prison stereotypes and brainstormed solutions to make the Utah Department of Corrections a better place to work.

The 2020–21 Williams Scholars were recently announced at a special event in the Tanner Building. This year's four recipients are Caitlin Jolley, Angela Smith, Jacob Valentine, and Logan Wooden.
BYU's motto—the world is our campus—is embodied by a team of students who hosted the Beyond Borders case competition in March 2021.




Every year, each department in the BYU Marriott School of Business selects one outstanding student to receive the Bateman Award, which recognizes excellence both inside and outside the classroom. The award is named after Merrill J. Bateman, who served as the dean of BYU Marriott from 1975–79 and the president of BYU from 1996–2003.
BYU junior Isaac Dushku was recently announced as the 2021 Student Entrepreneur of the Year by the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.


The Business Model Competition prompts students to design tests that validate their business ideas.

With its emphasis on teaching students to discover solutions to seemingly impossible problems, BYU Marriott's course Strategy 421: Strategy Implementation is one that Sherlock Holmes would have approved of.
In 2020, BYU Marriott marketing student Eddy Columna had an idea to start a podcast that featured student entrepreneurs from BYU and talked about the resources of the Rollins Center.

A team of IS students took home the first-place $1,000 prize in the annual Game Day Analytics Challenge hosted by the University of Utah.