International Program

Spain Visit

The full-time MBA international experiences are designed to expose students to international businesses and the associated political and cultural environment. While in Spain, we students met with entrepreneurs at public and private start-up incubators (Barcelona Activa, Tech Barcelona Pier 1), received lectures and tours from businesses such as Estrella Damm (local brewery), Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB, international marketing agency), and numerous cultural activities including museums and local cooking classes. This trip to Spain was an amazing capstone experience for our largest group of full-time MBA students yet. The group included one student who'd never flown on a plane, and several others who had never traveled outside the USA. By the end of our excursion to Spain, many students could see themselves as global citizens, and were open and eager to find careers that would allow them to do travel, live, and do business abroad

Summer 2023

Pforzheim University Visit

​University of Wyoming (UW) MBA students spend a week touring European companies as part of a collaborative international experience sponsored by the University of Wyoming and Pforzheim University in Pforzheim, Germany. Students from the UW MBA and Pforzheim International MBA programs collaborate as part of this engagement as well. The international experience is an integral part of the MBA curriculum and part of the second year MBA student’s Capstone course, taught by Dr. Joe Russo. Prior to departure, students research each company they visit, doing an analysis of the company’s business model and key success factors, as well as an assessment of opportunities and threats in the company’s overall competitive environment. Dr. Russo commented that, as a result, “students are able to ask informed questions and are able to emulate professional consultants and industry analysts. It is a true capstone experience.”​. Russo adds, "An aspect of international travel such as our MBA program provides, and which is quite unique compared to those of other MBA programs, is that our students arrive with far more contextual knowledge as to the German economy and its industries. Given Germany’s tremendous interrelatedness to the world economy, such knowledge extends beyond the border and allows for an appreciation of other economies as well. Said another way, the international week activities extend my students' experiences with issues they are likely to encounter in global business settings, while also providing the opportunity for them to develop their own personal competencies of working effectively in multicultural teams."

Fall 2018