Business Community Partnerships
Keep your organization future-ready with emerging talent, cutting-edge skillsets, and problem-solving insights across business disciplines
Team up with our faculty to tackle your business objectives with teams of students working on in-class projects. With programs including Accounting & Finance, Management, Hospitality, Marketing, and Management Information Systems, we have experts for every discipline and our students get the most benefit when working on real-world problems under their guidance. Bring us your dilemmas, conundrums, and puzzles, and we'll find a class that would love to dig into it with you. The output of these projects is typically a report or data-backed strategic recommendation document, but we can work with you to align the project around the deliverables that will be most useful to you.
While each project has unique expectations of our students, these projects are typically a light lift for our partnering organizations. Your faculty partner will guide you through all the necessary steps and manage the students' progress. All you have to do is provide your input and review the students' results.
As our students near the end of their program, they are tasked with projects and roles that test their ability to put their years of study into practice. These partnerships involve some greater involvement from partner organizations.
The RIT Co-op program, much like an internship, lets you tap student talent for short-term working arrangements that put their talent to use directly in your organizing, providing valuable experience and giving you a pipeline to emerging talent. Students and employers alike credit our Co-op program with giving RIT graduates the practical skills that are truly valuable in the workforce.
Capstone Projects are individual research projects that students conduct as a demonstration of their command over business strategy. They must research and analyze a real business problem and provide actionable strategic recommendations. Get deep insights from top talent guided by leading academics to inform impactful decisions.
Keeping up with the market requires constant learning - we happen to be very good at that. Sponsoring a research project gets you exclusive access to our top professors, researchers, and PhD students, giving you professional insights across disciplines based on deep research and expert analysis.
Our researchers will review existing literature, design a research plan, and implement primary research to find the data you need for critical business decisions. State-of-the-art facilities mean that your data is gathered in environments that were designed with research in mind.
We'll work closely with you to ensure the project is built and implemented precisely to your needs. As a result, these collaboration opportunities often require more effort on your side to ensure overall project success.
Benefits
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Collaboration opportunities come in many forms - we'll help you find the best value for your organization
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Join Industry Advisory Boards and guide curriculum development to shape your industry
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Access top talent and research
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RIT Co-op programs place students at over 2,200 employer partners annually
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Capstone projects provide expert consulting by MBA, EMBA, MS and Senior Undergraduate students
We're always onto something!
Let's see what we can build together