Whether it’s hiring talented graduates, participating with faculty on a research project, or working with students to solve a business challenge within your organization, corporate partnerships at Merrimack have proven beneficial to everyone involved. We take pride in developing long-term relationships with leading organizations that recognize the value in working with next generation of business leaders. See how partnering with Merrimack can benefit your team:
Recruiting Merrimack Students
Career Services, the second oldest in New England (1972), is dedicated to working in partnership with corporations seeking to recruit Merrimack College graduate and undergraduate students for full-time jobs and internships. Our career advising team will also work closely with recruiters to help identify ways to enhance your company’s recruiting presence on campus to help attract Merrimack’s best and brightest for future employment at your firm.
Business Training & Development
Through Corporate and Professional Education, Merrimack College has been helping companies develop the professional and technical skills of their employees. Our mission is to be the partner of choice for workforce development in the Merrimack Valley. Also offers continuing and professional education for anyone.
Advisory Boards
Work with the college on staying on the cutting edge of business practices and teaching tomorrow’s leaders today.
Supporting Applied Research
To advance the frontiers of knowledge, foster curricular innovation, enhance teaching, and inform and improve business practice, Merrimack professors pursue a rigorous agenda of scholarship and applied research. Monetary support from corporations, government organizations, private foundations, and individuals helps fuel leading-edge research at Merrimack and enables us to build and maintain the technology-rich facilities that bolster research and enhance the quality of education. Other important support for research comes from faculty interactions with corporate partners. Organizations have contributed by helping to define topics of interest, providing research sites for field-based research, and providing rich data sets to enhance research activities. Your support of faculty research helps to ensure that the research is addressing contemporary business problems that are important to you.
Giving to Merrimack
Many of the college’s corporate partners support Merrimack financially and through in-kind gifts. Should your company wish to become involved in supporting any Merrimack initiatives, please contact Director of Development Robert Roetger at roetgerr@merrimack.edu.
Corporate Affinity Networks
Merrimack is currently working with several corporations that employ large numbers of our alumni in developing Corporate Affinity Networks. The purpose of these networks is to build an awareness and community of Merrimack alumni within the firm to provide opportunities for professional development, networking and student recruiting; and to deepen and leverage the partnership between Merrimack and the company.
Merrimack College and the Merrimack Valley have forged a strong partnership since its inception. Programs and outreach benefit local residents and members of the college through utilizing undergraduate students to provide services to local communities while engaging students in a real world practicum of gaining knowledge.
Sponsorships –Arts, Athletics, and Service Learning
The Merrimack calendar is packed with events and offerings including performances at the Rogers Center for the Arts, exhibits in the college art gallery, stage productions by the On Stagers student drama group, and lectures on numerous topics of relevance, privacy in the workplace, and other emerging issues in business, and of course sponsorships for all athletic arenas and fields.
Service-Learning Projects
Each year, Merrimack College students put their business skills to work on behalf of human service agencies, government offices and schools in the Merrimack Valley, through the Stevens Service Learning Center . Students can fine-tune their skills in a real-world setting, while organizations gain valuable— and free— assistance on projects such as assessing information technology systems, community engineering, and environmental initiatives and studies.