Opportunities & Activities
Internships that provide actual work experience with today's business leaders — get their knowledge, not their coffee.
The School of Business Administration provides students with real opportunities to learn and achieve outside of the classroom. We recognize our students' talent and provide opportunities and activities that build on that. We also work closely with alumni and private business leaders — supplying ongoing opportunities and continuing the cycle of education and service in the business community.
You'll graduate with the skills, experience and confidence necessary to make a difference in business and society.
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Accounting Club
The Accounting Club provides you tremendous opportunities for leadership experience, networking with students, faculty, and employers, career advice, field trips and service. Oh, and socializing, of course.
Beta Alpha Psi
Employers love Beta Alpha Psi. You will too. Beta Alpha Psi is a national accounting fraternity that actively promotes and recognizes scholastic and professional excellence in accounting. You'll have opportunities for self development and association among members and practicing accountants.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Membership in this honor society is the highest recognition business students can receive. As lifelong members, students commit to practicing business with honor, integrity, wisdom and earnestness.
Crotty Center Mentorship Program
In their junior year, all entrepreneurship students are invited and encouraged to join the Crotty Center Mentorship Program. Students who join the program are matched with local entrepreneurs who serve as their mentors, meeting monthly, sometimes over lunch or dinner. This gives students an outstanding opportunity to seek advice, bat ideas around and build their networks with the help of successful entrepreneurs.
Join an international, co-ed, professional business fraternity based on professionalism, community service and social interaction? Delta Sigma Pi is open to students of all business majors. Get in on the business — and the fun.
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Department Competitions
Put yourself to the test in the Everest Real Estate Competition for entrepreneurship majors, the P&G Marketing Challenge for marketing majors or even the UD Business Plan Competition which is open to all students at UD. You can prove yourself worthy, win some money, earn a fantastic line for your resume, and have fun doing it in the process!
Economics and Finance Awards and Honor Societies
The Department of Economics and Finance recognizes excellence. You could be the recipient of an award or be nominated for the Financial Management Association National Honor Society or Omicron Delta Epsilon honor society in economics. The outstanding senior majoring in economics, the outstanding senior majoring in finance and the hardest working senior finance major are selected each year to receive coveted recognition.
Entrepreneur-At-The-Table (EATT) Program
This program brings local entrepreneurs and students interested in entrepreneurship together on a regular basis to discuss events, concerns, opportunities and practices of mutual interest. Three times a year, local entrepreneurs and ENT majors come together to meet and discuss entrepreneurship over lunch. These luncheon conversations are guided by a suggested entrepreneurial topic or theme for each event.
Entrepreneurship Club
Get an edge in entrepreneurship. Hear from guest speakers, visit local entrepreneurial companies and attend the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) Conference. All majors and graduate students can join.
Family Business Forum
This two-day annual program brings together parents of entrepreneurship students who are running family businesses. On the first day, groups of parents share their experiences about starting and running their businesses for all students. On the second day, students read and discuss a case about the challenges associated with dividing up ownership of the business between family members who are and who are not involved with the business. The forum provides an outstanding opportunity for students to grasp the complexities associated with running family businesses.
Finance Club
Finance Club is open to all business students — including you. The club hosts speakers who work in various areas of finance and coordinates with the intern and co-op office to help club members gain work experience with experts in the field of international business.
This company consists of seven student-run businesses operating on campus under the Flyer Enterprises name (these range from a café to convenience stores to coffee bars). In fact, Flyer Enterprises is the fourth largest student-run business in the country and is open to all undergraduate students at UD. With annual sales of approximately $1.5 million, many majors from our department are routinely involved as managers in Flyer Enterprises. Flyer Enterprises is a great opportunity… after all, how many students can list running a $1.5 million business on their resumes?
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International Business Club
Through speakers, presentations and one-on-one experiences with experts in the field of international business, you'll be a part of the growing understanding of globalization in the business world.
Rather than spending all or part of the summer in one of the formalized summer exchange experiences, you can literally attend foreign universities and take classes during normal fall or spring terms. Independently or through exchange agreements with our partner schools in Finland, France and Spain, you can create the perfect international education.
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You have the opportunity to participate in resume-building, experience-enhancing internships and cooperative education during the summer or school year. Immerse yourself in business, gain new insights and determine what type of job you're really interested in. You may even find a position before you graduate.
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Junior Entrepreneurship Mentor Program (JEM)
The program provides a unique mentoring experience for our sophomore entrepreneurship students. Selected junior entrepreneurship majors are assigned to mentor a Sophomore Experience company team for the entire academic year. The logic behind this students-mentoring-students program is that JEM mentors are in a terrific position to help since they have already successfully completed our demanding Sophomore Experience course sequence (a one-year course where sophomore entrepreneurship students conceive, organize, launch, operate and harvest a for-profit company).
Management Club
Improve your understanding of management functions, develop your professional and ethical attitudes and learn about management jobs through from speakers, group discussions, simulations, tours and professional dinners.
Marketing Club
Benefit by belonging to the world's largest, most comprehensive professional association of marketers – The American Marketing Association. Hear speakers on topics like advertising, media marketing, sports marketing and international marketing. Spend time with professionals who work in your area, interact with other business organizations and see how marketing fits into the big picture. Plus, you get stuff – like subscriptions and software.
Mu Kappa Tau
As a member, you are recognized for your outstanding academic achievement in the field of marketing. Inductees to this national academic honor society for marketing majors have a 3.25 GPA or better. For additional information, contact Dr. William Lewis.
National Association of Black Accountants
The UD chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants provides career development seminars, technical seminars, networking opportunities, volunteer assistance to charitable organizations and student scholarships. It encourages and assists minority students in entering the accounting profession and represents the interests of current and prospective minority accounting professionals.
Choose from a number of outstanding overseas study programs. Travel with other UD students to China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and many other countries. Or spend a whole term at a university in another country and immerse yourself into their business practices and culture.
It's a chance to study, take classes from UD professors and travel while earning your degree.
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The Student Government Association (SGA) brings students to the operational level of UD. One enterprising School of Business Administration student serves as the SGA business senator. The SGA business senator acts as a special liaison between students and administration on the Academic Senate, voicing the needs and concerns of business majors.
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The School of Business Administration at the University of Dayton hosts an annual Business Plan Competition (BPC). For the 2007-2008 BPC, first place will win $10,000.00 and over $20,000.00 in total prize monies will be awarded. The BPC involves teams investigating the feasibility of a new venture and constructing a plan for launching the venture using common formats and guidelines. Because writing a comprehensive business plan can seem daunting, entry is simple and applicants receive built-in support throughout the entire process of developing a winning plan. Indeed, outstanding business plans often attract funding from investors, something that could eventually spur job creation and economic growth in a region. The BPC will unfold in two stages during 2007-2008.
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Check out the Center for International Program's smorgasbord of study abroad opportunities including summer study or traditional academic year or semester study. Want to do coursework in a foreign language, find a program in your major or other opportunities working or volunteering abroad? The Education Abroad Coordinator will find UD programs best suited for you.
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