Business Language Teaching and Research Consortium ( BLTC)

The members of this consortium are committed to encouraging foreign language graduate students and professors to incorporate business understanding and business language into their research and teaching agenda by offering and/or promoting relevant workshops and conferences.

Consortium Members
University of Florida
University of Kansas
University of Pennsylvania
Purdue University
University of Pittsburgh
University of Memphis
University of Michigan
Michigan State University
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Temple University
University of Texas at Austin

Consortium for Pre-MBA Global Business and Language Immersion

Consortium members will develop and execute Pre-MBA Global Business and Language Immersion programs to be hosted by consortium-member CIBERs. Duke CIBER plans offerings in Georgian and Russian.

Consortium Members
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Michigan
Ohio State University
Temple University
Thunderbird
University of Kansas
University of California - L.A.

Course Offerings

Working Mandarin T, provided to Fuqua by the UNC - CH Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and funded by Duke's CIBER, helps business students and professionals learn Mandarin and the nuances of culture affecting business in China . The main goal of the course is to prepare MBA students with little to no prior Mandarin study to be able to speak and understand spoken Chinese used in the every day work life in China.