When Alexa Mikeska committed to William & Mary, she was stepping into the unknown. The Carlsbad, Calif., native had never been to Virginia and had no connections to the area. What she did have was belief in the program's vision and a willingness to embrace the opportunity to grow — both as a player and as a person.
The student-run Braun Financial Literacy Program at William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business has earned national recognition, taking the grand first prize in Zipcar’s Students with Drive competition. The nationwide award honors student organizations that are creating meaningful change in their communities.
The Raymond A. Mason School of Business and its Academic Innovation team recently hosted the second annual Teaching and Research with Generative AI Sprint (TARGAS II), a two-day faculty-and-student experience designed to rethink higher education for an AI-enabled future.
The Raymond A. Mason School of Business played a central role in William & Mary's designation as a Celonis Academic Center of Excellence for the 2025–26 academic year. The university was named among the global leaders in process mining scholarship and applied learning. The announcement was made at Celosphere, the company's annual international conference held November 3–5 in Munich, Germany, where Professor Monica Tremblay served as a featured panelist.
For students in William & Mary’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program, learning to build sophisticated machine learning models is only part of the equation. Understanding how data operates in the real world, especially in settings where human outcomes are significant, is central to the Raymond A. Mason School of Business experience.