Student Project Sponsorship

Let our students apply their analytical skills to your business challenge.

We invite companies and nonprofits to sponsor a capstone course or project course. You provide the business challenge and executive engagement; we provide highly talented students committed to developing innovative and analytics-based insights.

Pitch Your Project Idea

What Project Sponsors Can Expect

• 15-week course duration.
• A group of two to five students addressing their project.
• Faculty supervision, a mid-term, and final presentations included in the course.

Sponsor Benefits and Recognition

• Fresh, sophisticated ideas for your business challenge/opportunity from students who are educated in emerging thought and skills.
• Access to students to enable your organization to assess talent for recruitment purposes.
• Course guidance provided by Carnegie Mellon University professor(s).
• License to Student Work Product developed during the course.
• Professional development opportunity for the company employee who mentors the student team.
• Opportunity to fortify relationships with Carnegie Mellon University, a world-renowned institution.
• Corporate Associate recognition.

What's Required of Project Sponsors

• A project captain who is available for a pre-determined mutually agreed upon number of contacts and meetings.
• A problem to solve and/or information.
• An executed educational project agreement.