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Dual Degrees, International Field Seminars, Cross-Registration, and More –<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>First-Year MBA Student Shironda White Reflects on the Many Opportunities Questrom Has To Offer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\"Shironda.jpg\"\u201cI couldn\u2019t decide between Israel and Latin America,\u201d Shironda White said of the International Field Seminar options.\u00a0 \u201cSo I\u2019m going to both.\u201d\u00a0 Shironda, a first-year MBA candidate, is gearing up for a fourth module (quarter) of jet setting around the world as part of her MBA experience.\u00a0 With the eventual goal of eradicating food deserts in the US, she chose the Israel Field Seminar for its focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems and the Latin America Field Seminar for its focus on supply chain sustainability and corporate social responsibility (with trips that include wine tasting and learning about agriculture and aquaculture).<\/p>\n

Questrom\u2019s MBA offerings are unique in that they provide students with opportunities for outside study, whether it\u2019s across the campus or around the globe.\u00a0 Cross-registration and dual degree programs at other BU schools are common, as are the international field seminars in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other regions.<\/p>\n

“This is one of the reasons I chose Questrom” Shironda says of the options she has to choose from.\u00a0 “I wanted to study abroad, but not necessarily in just one place.\u00a0 I’m also interested in cross-registering at the Law School and the School of Public Health, and not every business school allows cross-registration. Questrom truly gives me the opportunity to chart my own path.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among Shironda’s other plans for her MBA experience:\u00a0 An internship this summer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.\u00a0 She secured the internship through Questrom’s partnership with Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a premiere MBA professional development and business school prep program.\u00a0 The Gates Foundation invites prospective students from a select number of schools and MLT fellows to apply for its internship program, so attending Questrom was instrumental in helping her secure the offer.<\/p>\n

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When asked what advice should would give to prospective students entering business schools, Shironda replies: \u201cThe best advice I ever received was from a consultant at Strategy& this summer.\u00a0 He said not to do the normal, standard stuff.\u00a0 Find out what really interests you, what you\u2019re really passionate about, and if you don\u2019t see an opportunity to do it, create one.\u00a0 For me that included not just international\u00a0study and learning outside of the classroom about entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, but also\u00a0building\u00a0strong relationships\u00a0with students at other schools, taking a range of classes in law and public health, and hopefully working with a faculty member next year on research in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Questrom is both large enough and small enough to really find (or create)\u00a0what works for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dual Degrees, International Field Seminars, Cross-Registration, and More -First-Year MBA Student Shironda White Reflects on the Many Opportunities Questrom Has To Offer \u201cI couldn\u2019t decide between Israel and Latin America,\u201d Shironda White said of the International Field Seminar options.\u00a0 \u201cSo I\u2019m going to both.\u201d\u00a0 Shironda, a first-year MBA candidate, is gearing up for a fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11742,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,49,59,62,64,69,73,76,98,146,147,151,158,160,183,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}