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Opportunities for Business Students

Go beyond the classroom

As a student in the College of Business at John Brown University, you will have many opportunities to get involved and/or take advantage of the many benefits offered to students. Whether through networking with faculty, guest speakers and fellow students, participating in study abroad trips, joining clubs, or completing an internship, your involvement will enhance your education.

On-campus undergraduate students

  • Get involved in JBU Ignite and develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life for people locally and around the globe
  • Participate in the annual Governor’s Cup Competition
  • Travel abroad and earn course credit in another country
  • Be involved in a business club
  • Develop marketing plans for actual clients
  • Gain real-world experience by interning at a local Fortune 500 company

Graduate students

  • Build a professional network
  • Use networking and education to achieve a career change
  • Participate in a study abroad trip
  • Build a career around a study abroad program
  • Experience a uniquely Christian worldview
  • Learn from faculty who are both practitioners and academicians

Online undergraduate students

  • Be part of a large JBU alumni network
  • Build a professional network
  • Take advantage of a schedule designed for working adults
  • Learn from faculty that combine theories and textbooks with “real world” experience

May 11, 2026

JBU Ignite

JBU Ignite is an organization that impacts disadvantaged communities and develops student leaders through social entrepreneurship. 

In the past year (2024-2025), Ignite has: 

  • Provided seed money to an NGO in Uganda to start a van transport service where profits will provide grants to rural, women and youth entrepreneurs.
  • Started a for-profit t-shirt printing company in El Salvador where profits funded 2,016 hours of English and computer literacy training 
  • Invested in greenhouse materials and provided volunteer hours for a planting day at a local farm expected to produce 3,000-4,000 lbs. of food for the food insecure in NWA 
  • Fundraised over 2,500 pounds of food and helped pass out 3,100 pounds of food to those in need 

Together, students are not only impacting communities; they’re learning to be leaders who will continue to make a difference long after graduation.  

Follow our journey on LinkedIn and Instagram to see how JBU students are igniting change around the world.

Ignite

Governor's Cup Business Plan Competition

Your first three years in the College of Business at JBU all come together for your senior year during the capstone business class Strategic Management. In this course, students work in teams to create a business and write a business plan detailing the first five years of operation. At the end of the semester, each team sends their business plan to a competition called the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Competition.

Twelve teams are selected from all of the entries, and they travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, to present their business plan and compete for cash prizes. Not only are the prizes a great incentive, but investors and experienced business people judge the presentations and plans and provide critical and useful feedback.

The top three from this Arkansas competition win prizes, and the top two teams travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, to compete against the top two teams from Oklahoma and Nevada and have another opportunity to win more cash prizes and interact with investors and business people.

JBU teams have won over $100,000 in prize money from the Governor's Cup Competition.

Learn more about the Governor's Cup.

International studies

Business students can study abroad in places like Central America and Asia where they learn about international business and other cultures while gaining college credit.

Internships

Potential employers want to see that graduates have gained practical experience through internships. Therefore, supervised learning involving field experience in a business firm is required as part of JBU's undergraduate business program.

JBU business clubs

JBU Ignite

As described above, JBU Ignite is an international non-profit organization that develops impactful projects that benefit the less privileged and encourages others to replicate.

John Brown Investment Group

Through this organization, students collaborate and research interesting investment opportunities which increase the probability of achieving positive returns on assets under management in any given year. 

The club's purpose is to provide JBU business students with real-world experience to learn more about the stock market and engage passionate JBU Business alumni as advisers to current JBU undergraduate students. Furthermore, the group seeks to equip JBU students with Christian values to make an impact on the world.
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