Gain real-world business experience with global and domestic immersions.

With Kelley Direct's global and domestic immersions, you'll combine your online learning with in-person experience. Each term, you'll have opportunities to travel domestically or internationally to gain real-world business experience, make connections, and develop an innovative mindset to become a better decision maker. These experiences typically last 5 to 10 days.

During the online portion of a consulting-focused course, you'll learn about the location's culture, context of the organization and market, scope of the project, and needs of the client. When you travel to the location, you'll meet face-to-face with clients, visit client sites, and present deliverables.

For exploration-focused courses, you'll dive into a key topic or set of themes, and conduct analysis or produce business plans focused on the location and market.

Build your skills and solve real business problems.

Take on a high-stakes problem faced by your client—a real business in an emerging economy. As part of a competitively selected student team dealing with an unfamiliar locale and culture, this experience will accelerate development of your global executive leadership skills as you quickly adapt your business knowledge and make decisions to deliver solutions to complex challenges.

Student-led team deployments build skills in:

• Innovative thinking and entrepreneurship
• Consulting
• Project management
• Cultural and emotional intelligence
• Data collection, market, and operations research

Some of our prior trips included:

• São Paulo, Brazil
• Beijing, China
• Havana/Viñales, Cuba
• Athens, Greece
• New Delhi, India
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Bangkok, Thailand

Once you are accepted to Kelley Direct, work with your advisor to incorporate this life-changing opportunity into your plan of study.