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Seeing Double in Cameron School
2/19/2008
With dreams of one day opening up a business together, 25-year-old twins Amy and Awa Dosso left their home in Africa’s Ivory Coast to pursue MBAs at the University of St. Thomas’ Cameron School of Business. 
The sisters journeyed to Houston in the fall of 2007 to familiarize themselves with the city and take English language courses before beginning graduate school at UST in spring 2008.
Amy and Awa received their undergraduate degrees in engineering and marketing, respectively, from the Houphouët Boigny National Polytechnic Institute in Ivory Coast. After both working for a year, Amy as a project manager for the cabinet of their country’s prime minister and Awa as a marketing activation manager for Coca-Cola, the sisters decided to attend St. Thomas upon a recommendation by their older sister Fatou Dosso, who received an MBA from the Cameron School in 2004.
Amy and Awa both agree that the close-knit community and the opportunity to have in-class discussions with professors are the most rewarding aspects of UST’s MBA program.
“We have interesting discussions in class and we try to learn from one another,” Amy said. “At my former university, you didn’t have the chance to discuss things in class or have the opportunity to say what you want. Things are very different here. The teachers are very patient and you are able to ask questions.”
While the sisters stay busy with school, Amy focusing her graduate studies in management information systems and Awa in finance, they still manage to find time to pursue shared interests, such as interior design and cooking, especially native African dishes and French pastries.
Both plan to return to Africa after graduating and ultimately want to open an event planning business together in their native country, specializing in weddings and corporate events. The market for such services, they said, is still untapped in Africa and they believe an event planning business would do well there.
The University of St. Thomas’ Master of Business Administration program provides its students with a broad based integrative management education. The program is designed to enable students to draw on all perspectives of business to effectively solve multifaceted business problems. Graduates of the MBA program from the Cameron School of Business enjoy considerable career advantages including outstanding employment opportunities in an increasingly competitive global business environment.
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