{"id":47634,"date":"2018-06-12T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=47634"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:32:22","slug":"bachelor-of-international-business-grad-comes-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/bachelor-of-international-business-grad-comes-full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Convocation 2018: Bachelor of International Business Grad Comes Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Spring Convocation 2018: Bachelor of International Business Grad Comes Full Circle\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Sarah McKinnon had never been further east than the border of Saskatchewan when she visited Carleton\u2019s Spring Open House in 2014. From a family farm in Carseland, Alta., she flew in to discover that the Sprott School of Business and the Bachelor of International Business (BIB) program were right where she wanted to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted a chance to see more of Canada,\u201d said the chancellor\u2019s scholarship recipient. \u201cAnd I\u2019d always wanted to learn a second language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bachelor of International Busines with International Opportunities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Studying Spanish allowed her to spend her third year at Madrid\u2019s Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros<\/a>, and this spring she receives her BIB Honours with a concentration in Global Financial Management and Systems and a minor in Spanish. After graduation, she will join Kanata mergers and acquisitions firm Sampford Advisors<\/a> as a financial analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSprott has a really nice small-town feel to it,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was unexpected going into business school, and it made for an even better experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the outset, McKinnon became an integral part of Sprott. In first year, she became an equity analyst for the Sprott Student Investment Fund, the portfolio of real market securities managed by students that reached a value of $1 million this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last March, McKinnon, alongside Cason Bravener, Chiara Palumbo and Parker Olineck, won the Van Berkom JMSB Small-Cap Stock Valuation Case competition<\/a>. During her studies, she was also vice-president of events with the Sprott Finance Students\u2019 Association and finance director for the Sprott International Business Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming Full Circle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In her final year, McKinnon came full circle as a Sprott student ambassador at the annual Spring Open House and shared her experience with incoming students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was a really cool opportunity, because that was my initial introduction to Sprott,\u201d she said. \u201cFour years later, being on the other side of it and presenting for potential undergrads was a nice capstone to the program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah McKinnon had never been further east than the border of Saskatchewan when she visited Carleton\u2019s Spring Open House in 2014. From a family farm in Carseland, Alta., she flew in to discover that the Sprott School of Business and the Bachelor of International Business (BIB) program were right where she wanted to be. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47635,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[25],"cu_story_tag":[1922],"class_list":["post-47634","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-student-experience","cu_story_tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97709,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47634\/revisions\/97709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=47634"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=47634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}