Student opportunities

Students in the accounting club plan and participate in several events throughout the year.  Events include picnics, service projects and professional opportunities for students.

Students in the Department Business have many outstanding study-abroad opportunities from which to choose, but perhaps the most extraordinary is the International Business Institute. For  eight weeks during the summer, IBI participants travel through Europe, India, Asian and the Middle East, while taking global business classes, seeing cultural and historic sites, and visiting major international organizations.

The Investment Club began in 2003 with a donation of $100,000 from a generous benefactor. The main goals and objectives of the club are as follows:

1) To provide a “hands on” laboratory experience for students from all majors and academic disciplines, 2) To create an income stream (a percentage of each year’s investment income) from which to provide funding for student organizations.

During their time at Messiah, most Business students enjoy one or more work experiences in their field. Students work for a wide variety of organizations including Fortune 500 firms. The Department often provides internship leads, and many more opportunities are found through the College’s outstanding Internship Center.

The Department Business believes that mentoring relationships are an important factor in helping individuals succeed both in college and the business world. Many Messiah students participate in special mentoring programs that connect lower-level students with upper-level students and upper-level students with alumni.

Founded in 2013, the Messiah University Marketing Club has been a thriving part of the Messiah University Department of Business. The mission of the Marketing Club is to help individuals connect with peers, build professional relationships, deepen their marketing understanding, and practice their discipline in ways that honor God, benefit others and launch their marketing careers. Marketing majors/minors and students from many other disciplines compromise the Club's membership. Everyone is welcomed to attend the Club's exciting on-campus events and field trips.

Delta Mu Delta is a business honor society that recognizes and encourages academic excellence of students at qualifying colleges and universities to create a DMD community that fosters the well-being of its individual members and the business community through life-time membership.

Join the Economic Empowerment Club, a student group using business as a mission to assist organizations directly combating poverty. For over two decades, this group has worked in countries like Zambia, Uganda and Algeria, where it has prepared business plans, built surveys and conducted trainings on community savings groups and small business development. This group benefits from the contributions of students from various backgrounds who share a common desire - serving God by serving His people.

Interested students should reach out to club advisior, Dr. Michael Dolislager at mdolislager@messiah.edu.

In a recent survey of the millennial generation, 54% said they had the goal of starting a business. There are a number of current Messiah College students and recent alumni with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make both a profit and a difference in the world.

Messiah College needed a catalyst to harness this "entrepreneurial wave"  and thus launched the Impact Venture Challenge three years ago to:

• equip Messiah College students to develop and launch ventures with positive social impact
• allow students to network with mentors, faculty members, non-profit organizations, potential investors, and business leaders
• serve the local and global community
• intentionally foster a spirit of entrepreneurship among the Messiah College community

Launched in 2019, the Messiah Business Institute (MBI) exists to support, equip, and encourage a thriving and purposeful business community within South Central Pennsylvania.

Bringing together business leaders, Messiah students and faculty, MBI achieves its goals through:

• Providing educational content from business experts with a particular emphasis on how their faith, values and ethics impact their business practices and the common good.
• Providing a welcoming and hospitable environment in which networking, support, and collaboration can occur.
• Providing members with access to students for recruitment and mentorship purposes.

MBI holds two types of events.  Network Gatherings typically feature a business leader who presents to the larger audience. Events are designed to provide ample opportunity for networking and an opportunity for members to interact with the guest speaker.

Best Practice Roundtables are smaller settings designed to address a best practice, current trend, and/or challenge. Emphasis will be on highlighting a member, sponsor, or Messiah University faculty member with intentionality on interaction between attendees.

The Collaboratory is a center at Messiah College for applied research and project-based learning, in partnership with client non-profit organizations, businesses, governments and communities in our region and around the world. Areas of engagement include science, engineering, health, information technology, business and education.