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Join Us on the 2026 MBA Study Tour to Milan, Paris, and Angers

We’re inviting current MBA students and, for the first time, MBA alumni to join us for the 2026 International MBA Study Tour; a shared journey of learning, connection, and discovery across Milan, Paris, and Angers from 7 to 18 June 2026.

This immersive program takes the MBA beyond the classroom. Over ten days, we will visit large corporations, family-run businesses, non-profits, consultancies, and technology-driven firms while working on live projects that call for creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. Classes will be held in local universities and workplaces, followed by site visits and workshops where you can apply theory to real-world challenges and learn from what does not go to plan as much as from what does.

But you will also be encouraged to think beyond business; to engage with culture, philosophy, ethics, and social analysis, and to explore how these shape leadership and decision-making. Peers, professors, and fellow students from our partner university in Milan will join us while in Italy, offering local perspectives that reveal how different learning styles, pedagogies, and ways of knowing shape understanding across cultures. These exchanges deepen your appreciation that the world is not uniform, that ideas, methods, and assumptions differ, and this diversity is what makes global leadership both complex and rewarding.

The experience also invites you to slow down and engage with ideas, with people and with place, reminding us that learning is not only about advancement but about seeing and understanding the world differently. The tour combines professional insight with cultural immersion: pasta-making classes in Milan, gallery visits in Paris, city tours in Angers, and plenty of shared meals, gelato and conversation along the way. It’s the kind of experience that often becomes a turning point, not just academically but personally, prompting reflection about what matters, how you think and how you want to contribute.

And in 2026, we are so excited to be able to invite MBA alumni to join the study tour as mentors, travelling alongside our current students to share their insights and continue their own learning journey.

This is an amazing opportunity for our valued MBA alumni to travel as fellow learners, sharing their own experience, while reconnecting with the spirit of curiosity and reflection that defines the MBA, and supporting the next generation of Deakin leaders.

Financial support will be available to help alumni participate in this mentoring role.

For students, the study tour is a variant of the core unit, MBA704 Marketing, Consumers, and the Marketplace (Study Tour code MBT704). Current students who have already completed MBA704 are able to enrol in the study tour as an elective through MMT732, so please check your study plan or contact the MBA Director for guidance.

Offered only every two years, the study tour is one of the most rewarding experiences in the MBA program. It’s a chance to test your ideas, broaden your perspective, and build lasting connections.

Whether you’re studying now or returning as a graduate, start planning and submit your expression of interest to join us in 2026.

Take a look at these photos of the 2024 tour and videos of the 2023 tour if you need further persuasion!