Meet Your Co-Pilot
You’ll be fully equipped to launch your career with Duke by your side. Our team helps you assess your interests and skills, working closely with you to develop a tailored job search strategy. Providing both training and tools, we coach you to identify and explore opportunities with the organizations you’re interested in. You’ll use these skills and our resources not only for your first position after graduation, but throughout your career.
Comprising nearly 200,000 alumni worldwide, Duke graduates are making a difference in a diverse range of organizations, from global corporations to start-ups. Year after year, students connect with sought-after companies looking for professionals who want to make a difference.
Career Support
Fuqua’s Career Management Center (CMC) and the Career & Professional Development Center (CPDC) at the Nicholas School will help you define your path and provide tools for a search strategy that teaches you how to connect with employers.
You’ll have programming staff who will help you articulate your unique value proposition, manage complex search techniques, identify your objectives, and pursue meaningful work that fits your career goals. The partnership between Fuqua and Nicholas means access to deep industry expertise and knowledge, coaching resources with diverse specialties, a variety of career workshops, and industry panels.
Resources
Professional career coaches help you find the career opportunities that fit your interests and skills. They meet with you one-on-one by appointment, either in person or via online video conference, and you can also attend walk-up hours between classes to chat informally.
We engage you in the job search process from orientation through graduation, with training and workshops. Offerings are customized to meet your class’s needs and include:
Industry Panel Discussions
Panel discussions with alumni and corporate representatives give you an in-depth look at potential business careers.
Relationship Building
Networking is an essential professional skill, regardless of your career goals. Learn how to build and manage your network, request information, and get tips on informational interviewing.
Branding and Strategic Job Search Planning
Once you make a plan, a coach will review it and help align your goals with steps you can take to achieve them.
Professional Correspondence and Resume Development
Learn useful guidelines for creating a professional cover letter and resume that best represent your passions and interests. You'll work one-on-one with a career coach to refine your resume, and you’ll exchange resumes with your classmates to gain additional feedback.
Interviewing
Practice responding to commonly asked behavioral and case questions through mock interviews with recruiters and other business leaders.
Our job is to help you navigate a multifaceted career ecosystem. A joint degree means you have a wider field of resources working together at your disposal. There are lots of opportunities to engage with industry professionals and to develop a network outside of the classroom and formal recruiting activities.
Career fairs expose you to various industries and provide opportunities for you to network with company representatives, recruiters, and potential employers.
Past career fairs have included:
- Sustainable Business Career Fair: Past attendees have included Deloitte, Cherokee Investment Fund, and the World Wildlife Fund.
- Duke Fall Career Fair: Employer representatives from sectors including business, technology, education, government, and nonprofits attend this fair. Past attendees have included Accenture, Apple, Bloomberg, GE, Intuit, Levi Strauss & Co., and General Motors.
- TechConnect: Past attendees have included Deutsche Bank, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, IBM, Northrop Grumman, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Medtronic.
- Nonprofit and Government Career Fair: Past attendees have included Big Brothers Big Sisters, Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment America, United Planet, Goodwill Community Foundation, Institute for Sustainable Development, IRS, NARAL, The Nature Conservancy, Teach for America, and U.S. Department of State.
At Fuqua and Nicholas, you can count on interacting with a variety of employers. Corporate relations staff helps recruiters find and hire students through on-campus events, interviews, and job postings. On-campus recruiting activities typically begin in September.
Recruiting events include panel discussions, recruiting receptions, office hours where you engage in casual interactions with business professionals, corporate presentations, interactive webinars, and company meet-and-greets.
The Ford Library
The staff at Duke’s Ford Library offers customized service and support to enhance your job-search efforts.
Career Services Systems
Duke provides multiple resources for recruiting and career search information. You will have access to both Handshake and CareerBridge, where you will find job postings, contacts, employer events, and more throughout the year.
Handshake
With Handshake, the Duke-wide career network platform, you can access and apply for even more positions.
Resume Database
All MBCS students will be added to relevant digital resume databases and resume books that will increase your chance of catching the eye of a potential employer; it’s searchable by different criteria to potential employers.
Online Mock Interviews
Big Interview, the world's leading job interview training system, gives you the ability to practice virtual interviews at any time. This platform is best used to record and watch yourself respond to customized interview questions. Best of all, you can use it around the clock.
Alumni Directory
As soon as you start the program, you’ll have access to databases of more than 35,000+ alumni from Fuqua and Nicholas by program, graduation year, industry, company, job function, or geographic location. You'll also have access to Duke University’s full alumni database of 195,000+. Networking with alumni helps you learn more about the industries or organizations you are interested in.
Success Statistics
Career statistics are a testament to our record of identifying, nurturing, and supporting future leaders. As future classes come through the program and graduate, we will report on their successes and career directions.
International Students
The MBCS program welcomes students that are non-U.S. citizens, coming from all parts of the world. Regardless of where you have work authorization, your MBCS career coach can help you create an individualized job search strategy that’s right for you and providing resources you’ll need to find meaningful work.
Work Authorization
International students may be eligible for an internship or employment in the United States upon completion of the Master in Business, Climate, and Sustainability program. MBCS is a STEM-designated (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) program, giving international students whose jobs meet certain requirements the opportunity to work in the U.S. for a total of three years (24 months of STEM OPT extension beyond the regular 12 month OPT). After the OPT period, you will need a company to sponsor you for a work-based visa, most typically the H-1B visa. For more information on the H-1B application process, visit the Duke Visa Services website.
Your U.S. student visa status determines whether you are eligible for work on campus during your 10-month program, but most student visas restrict or prohibit working off campus during the program.
MBCS Quick Facts
Start Date: July 2026
Duration: 10 months
Program location: Durham, NC
Campus location: Fuqua School of Business and Nicholas School of the Environment
Style: Cohort-based
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