The Whittemore School provides opportunities for students to create life-long social and professional relationships. Through class projects, study groups, organized competitions, and clubs such as the Graduate Business Club and the MBA Alumni Club, you will have several opportunities for social interaction and networking with students, faculty, and alumni.

Under the direction of Professor Michael Merenda, Whittemore School MBA students were awarded $5,000 for second place in the 2004 I2P Idea to Product International Competition held at the University of Texas in Austin. They competed against some of the top schools in the world including Stanford University, Indian Institute of Technology, Imperial College in London, and Trinity College in London.

Whittemore MBA students also competed in the 2004 NASA Means Business Competition and were selected as one of five teams of finalists. Relying on a multi-media presentation, they worked to convince the 10 NASA judges that they had the best ideas, strategy, and implementation to inform, educate, and inspire the American people to support the NASA program. The team's formal presentation and public service announcements, On Earth and Beyond Earth, surpassed team presentations from some of the best MBA programs in the country such as MIT, Stanford, University of Texas at Austin, and Auburn University.

Each year a team of MBA students travel to Montreal, Canada to participate in the John Molson MBA International Case Competition. The week-long competition, with participants from 30 top business schools, follows a round-robin format consisting of five business cases, including one "live" case drawn from an existing organization that is facing a real-life business challenge. With three hours to prepare, teams of four students analyze and evaluate cases using the skills, knowledge and experience they have gained in their respective MBA programs. Once preparation is complete, the team presents its action plan to a panel of senior business executives. Teams are judged on creativity, insight, substance and plausibility of implementation.