Abstract:

Business consulting done by students is a great opportunity for business students to gain practice and to get some high-quality practice-orientated "learning by doing" education.

We describe the benefits of educating students through involving them in the process of business consulting services for real clients and we present several positive impacts resulting from this education form. These impacts are very influential on following areas: personal development, career growth and professional networking.

Our findings are backed up by our extensive research, which has been made for more than 4 years now and is still bringing new and interesting outputs.

We consider business consulting as a very effecitve educational method in the context of experiential learning for all business schools. These acitivities are also contributing to strengthening the university-industry collaboration. We have the ambition to inspire other lecturers to initiate similar forms of education in other business schools around the world.

Keywords:

Learning by doing, Experiential learning, Student consulting.