Residencies

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business’ signature residencies enrich MBA Evening Program students’ learning with immersive, team-centered experience in simulated and real world  work. Unique to Georgetown, all students are required to complete four residencies in addition the standard coursework.

Opening Residency

As a primer to their entire Georgetown MBA Evening Program experience, students begin the first year with the Opening Residency, a pre-term residency covering the fundamentals of global leadership.

Business and Public Policy Residency

From tax and regulation to healthcare, defense, housing, and the environment - every government policy affects business. The Business and Public Policy residency gives a students a deep dive into the nexus between enterprise and government, and how policy in Washington is made and executed.

Leadership Residency

Students integrate their learning in the Leadership Residency, which challenges them to apply the management strategies they have learned in an immersive business setting.

Global Residency

The Global Residency is the capstone of the Georgetown MBA experience. Student consulting teams work together to solve a pressing business problem for a foreign organization or Fortune 500 company with operations overseas. At the conclusion of the in-class component, student teams travel abroad to their clients' facilities to finalize their project and present recommendations to senior leadership.

In recent years teams have traveled to Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, India, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and Vietnam and worked for clients ranging from 3M and Philips Electronics to the World Bank and Yahoo!.