Hands-On Learning

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Hands-On Learning
Three students standing on the field of Autzen Stadium looking at a sponsor banner

Hands-On Learning

Endless Opportunities

It’s not enough to be trained in your field. You need real experience.

At the Lundquist College of Business, you’ll gain hands-on experience managing more than $1 million in real dollars through our UO Investment Group or by working directly with companies as a member of our student-run Oregon Consulting Group. And that’s just the beginning. From internships to class projects, study abroad, and more, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to explore career paths and build your resume.

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Centers of Excellence

At the heart of the Lundquist College of Business's vision and mission are our four centers of excellence. Immersed in the college's "learning by doing" approach to business education, the centers set us apart and help advance the work of our talented research-productive faculty members.

Explore the Centers

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Travel and Site Visits

At the Lundquist College of Business, we prepare our students to thrive in the world of global business. We offer several site visit and travel opportunities both locally and abroad to let students experience the culture, history, and politics of other economies.  

Students tour companies and factories, participate in marketing events, attend lectures given by executives at leading firms, and network with top executives.

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Join the Flock

Find out how studying business here can take you most anywhere you want to go.

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Meet Stella

Stella Rabb is an executive leader for the UO Real Estate Investment Group and Oregon Entrepreneurship Club, and a participant in the Oregon Innovation Challenge (OIC). Her creative spark ignited through OIC, leading to her startup project, Staro, a college game-day onesie brand designed for school spirit and style. 

“The opportunities at the Lundquist College of Business have been life-changing. My future is in entrepreneurship, and the University of Oregon has been pivotal in shaping this trajectory.”

Read Stella's Story

Career and Professional Development

The Lundquist College offers several programs, groups, and projects for students to strengthen their career and professional development. Manage live money across several portfolios. Choose from a collection of short courses to develop cutting-edge essential skills. Participate in a student team that provides strategic recommendations to real companies. However you decide to expand your career and professional skills, we have the opportunities.

What's it like to be a Duck?

Find out what it's like to be a student at the Lundquist College by attending an info session or talking with a current student. Learn about our centers of excellence, study abroad opportunities, professional development offerings, and more.

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Competitions

The Lundquist College is affiliated with a number of university- and community-wide business plan, financial, and case competitions, as well as hackathons for students to participate in and gain valuable entrepreneurial experience.

Discover Competitions

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Competitions

The Lundquist College is affiliated with a number of university- and community-wide business plan, financial, and case competitions, as well as hackathons for students to participate in and gain valuable entrepreneurial experience.

Discover Competitions

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Meet Alex

Alex La China turned a class project into a platform that is now helping more than 20,000 students around the world. College Cat, an AI-powered virtual tutor, is designed to make academic life easier. 

“I apply what I’m learning to College Cat every day. Every day is a chance to make it better, make it what students need.”

Read Alex's Story

Student Clubs and Organizations

The college actively supports and encourages student participation in clubs as a vital component of the college experience. Not only do clubs give students an opportunity to interact and learn from peers, but they also provide the opportunity to bring together and apply lessons learned from various courses in a hands-on setting. Club activities include everything from organizing events, seminars, fundraising for local nonprofits, guest speakers, field trips, site visits, and career development workshops to networking and managing real stock portfolios.

Explore Student Clubs

Guest Speakers and Executives

Hundreds of business leaders come to the UO campus every year to share their insights with students in workshops and lectures, via a guest speaker series, or as part of executive-in-residence programs. Students in both our Eugene and Portland programs benefit from these experiences as well as make important connections with business leaders and industry professionals.

Become a Guest Speaker

Upcoming Events

Feb 24
Wrangling Data with Python in Pandas (Workshop) 10:30 a.m.

Get ready to strengthen your Python skills! UO Libraries hosts a free, hybrid workshop series designed to follow our Introduction to Python workshop series (or another...
Wrangling Data with Python in Pandas (Workshop)
February 24–March 5
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Get ready to strengthen your Python skills! UO Libraries hosts a free, hybrid workshop series designed to follow our Introduction to Python workshop series (or another introductory Python course such as CS 122). Participants will develop the skills they need to clean, analyze, and visualize tabular data with the popular package Pandas by working through hands-on exercises with real data in Python.

Topics covered include:

    Reading data in Python from multiple input formats     Data cleaning and standardization     Aggregating and transforming data     Data visualization

Before this workshop, you should be famliar with variables, data types, functions, and data structures in Python. As a refresher, we recommend reviewing the Software Carpentries Python curriculum.

Please come with Anaconda and JupyterLab pre-installed on your laptop. If you would like assistance configuring your Python environment, please arrive 15 minutes early for the workshop or schedule a consultation.

Register through the UO Libraries' website.

Feb 25
Biometrics in Business 5:00 p.m.

Join us for an exclusive tour of the Insights Research Lab (IRL) and discover how cutting-edge biometric technology is transforming business research. Located in the heart of the...
Biometrics in Business
February 25
5:00–6:30 p.m.
Chiles Hall 228 (Insights Research Lab)

Join us for an exclusive tour of the Insights Research Lab (IRL) and discover how cutting-edge biometric technology is transforming business research. Located in the heart of the Lundquist College of Business, the IRL is home to sophisticated tools—like eye-tracking technology—that provide businesses with deep insights into consumer behavior, decision-making, and engagement.

During this interactive session, you'll:

Explore the lab's state-of-the-art research spaces Learn how businesses leverage biometrics to refine marketing strategies and improve user experiences See eye-tracking technology in action and uncover the hidden patterns of attention

Whether you're interested in marketing, consumer behavior, or data-driven decision-making, this is your chance to experience real-world applications of business research right here on campus!

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Learning Spaces

Students at the Lundquist College have access to two on-site innovation labs, each providing students with hands-on experience using specialized equipment to develop business ideas, and design and test prototypes. The college is also home to the Business Research Institute, the hub for developing relationships between customers, researchers, businesses, and agencies.

Eugene Campus

  • Business Academic Residential Community (BizARC) Innovation Lab
  • Business Research Institute (BRI)

Portland Building

  • Sports Product Management (SPM) Innovation Lab

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Academic Learning Experiences

At the Lundquist College of Business, we offer students a range of academic experiences to help make connections, gain skills for a diverse world of business, and build a lifelong community so they can go on to do great things in the world.