Kellogg Worldwide Experiences & Service Trips (KWEST) is one of the largely popular non-academic opportunities at Kellogg. It unites incoming students through a diversity of social, site-seeing and community service activities.

Every year, incoming Kellogg School of Management students gather for the 4-day Kellogg Worldwide Experiences and Service Trips (KWEST) experience, during which they engage in volunteerism and tourist activities alongside the veritable strangers that will soon become their friends.

KWEST experiences take place throughout the United States and internationally; the 2010 trips were to such locations as the Cayman Islands, Greece, Egypt, South Africa and Turkey.

In 2011, the KWEST locations included Ecuador, Italy, Spain, Greece and France, and in 2012, students on KWEST adventures traveled to 19 different countries, such as Canada, Belize, Nicaragua, Croatia, Costa Rica, Portugal and Thailand.

Some students even participated in a mystery trip: they do not learn their destination until they check in at the airport!

During KWEST, students are not expected to discuss work experience or academic/professional plans. Instead, students get to know each other on a more personal as well as intellectual level, returning to campus well acquainted and even bonded.

Contact Details:

Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road,
Evanston, IL 60208
Contact 847.491.3300