Update March 9, 2024: The application window has closed. We are processing applicants. I will update some of the content here as we finalize the trip details. Later, when we are on the trip to Singapore, I will add photos taken during the trip.

If you are a University at Buffalo sophomore, junior, or senior, you can register for MGO 330, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, to join a three-week study abroad trip to Singapore and earn three credits. A student from any major University at Buffalo program may use this as an elective course.

​Students from other State University of New York (SUNY) campuses who can use the three credits for this course as an elective may also apply.

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Explore Singapore

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This will be a three-week visit to Singapore. Students will have free time during the weekends and evenings, and on several weekdays, to explore Singapore. We will stay at the 3-Star YMCA @ One Orchard Hotel in central Singapore.

We will focus on understanding cultural differences and appreciating the value of diversity in businesses, non-profit service organizations, and in life. Our academic emphasis will be on social entrepreneurship. We also will learn about for-profit entrepreneurship.
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We will conduct classroom discussions each week. We will visit businesses and cultural institutions during most weekday afternoons. A typical day will include morning classroom discussions and afternoon visits.

​Many of our visits will to be social entrepreneurship (i.e., non-profit or non-governmental) organizations. About half of our visits will be to cultural institutions such as museums, music venues, schools, and parks. During our discussions, we will reflect on our visits.

YMCA @ One Orchard. Three-star hotel in central Singapore

The YMCA @ 1 Orchard

The YMCA @ 1 Orchard, Singapore.

Only a 30-minute walk into the city center from your hotel.

Double room at the YMCA @ 1 Orchard.

The YMCA @ 1 Orchard, Singapore.

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We will use a three-week adaptation of an existing University at Buffalo (UB) syllabus. This will be a three-credit undergraduate course - MGO 330 Entrepreneurship and Small Business - based on experiential learning methods[1]. The expected student levels are sophomore through senior. Students from any major program at UB may take this course as an elective.
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[1] Kolb, D. A. (2015). Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development (Second ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.

Students can eat at the The Social Kitchen within the YMCA @ One Orchard. 
Or students can cross the street to the Singapore Management University School of Economics and dine very economically at the Kuofu Food Court - an air-conditioned hawker centre.

The Social Kitchen in the YMCA @ One Orchard.

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Marina Bay Sands and the Singapore Flyer.

Learn from wonderful experiences in Singapore. Dr Paul McAfee graduated with his PhD in June 2022 from the Univeristy at Buffaloo Graduate School of Education. He started teaching in 2012 in Vietnam after 30 years as an international business executive and entrepreneur. Paul has taught for UB in Singapore since 2014. Paul and his UB fall 2023 Project Management students are designing an exciting study abroad experience for you. Click the image for the official Stayin' Alive video, a potential theme song for our journey.

Singapore: 88 miles from the equator.

This is a video of the Singapore Super Trees during October 2023. Should we make the Bee Gees' Staying Alive our theme song?

2024 singapore Study abroad Location

We will stay near the city center at the
​YMCA @ One Orchard.
​1 Orchard Road, Singapore, 238824

Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore, from the SuperTree Grove at Gardens by the Bay.

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