Guest lectures offer students the opportunity to meet passionate, committed, and erudite people and to learn from them in various ways. Guest lecturers provide an important educational experience for students based on their real-world life experiences. Students get to see the insight and perspective of the guest lecturers’ specific fields and get to learn about the current development and cutting-edge research in that field or area. Guest lectures and talks enable students to interact with professionals in formal and informal settings. Through discussions, interpersonal competence, and communicative skills are fostered. Guest lectures impart students learning beyond their syllabus and textbooks. Students thereby can correlate between what they have learned and the real world. Guest lectures also serve to provide career guidance and career counseling to young students who are ready to step into their desired fields of higher studies or work.

Guest lectures on different topics of similar interest can update students on topics they do not learn but are related to their course, thereby enabling transdisciplinary learning. Guest lectures suggest ways to enhance the value of speaking, and engagement and present a model to ensure a match between the presentation and classroom objectives. Experiences from entrepreneurs inspire students in their own (entrepreneurial) projects, creating motivation and an action orientation. They bring in special expertise and experiences that teachers cannot provide. Alumni guest speakers are a representation of the college’s academics, ethos, and culture. They are role examples of how a student can excel after gaining learning from college.

Guest lectures thus give students current insights, contemporary knowledge, discernment of particular niches, career guidance, opportunities for collaborations and training, and interaction with alumni and may help to break the monotony and spark interests when they learn about the practical applications of theoretical concepts.