Corporate Partners & Recruiters
Moving Business Forward
Set in the heart of a top-ranked research institution with a strong culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, the Leeds School of Business is transforming the future of business. We seek industry partners to build mutually beneficial relationships that will positively impact our shared goals and move business into the future—together.
Our Career Development team works with over 2K companies seeking top talent for jobs and internships. Learn more.
Our 6 Centers of Excellence connect students to the business world and provide corporate partners a variety of engagement opportunities.
Enhance your team’s effectiveness through customized programs, such as an evening MBA, executive MBA, or one of our specialized executive education programs.
Tap into Leeds faculty research and expertise, or work with us to gain targeted and broad research insights.
You can help empower students of varied backgrounds to achieve career success and nurture a pipeline of talented prospective employees.
Explore opportunities to invest in students, faculty, programs and facilities while building your company’s community presence at Leeds.
We have found great students at Leeds for our organization as it is one of the strongest business colleges in the state. Students are well prepared and stand out in a crowd.
—Laurel Stone, KPMG, University Recruiting & Relations
Opportunities to Engage
There are many ways for you to partner with Leeds students and faculty, including on-campus interviews, classroom panels and speaking opportunities, mentorship, career treks, shadow days and more. As a strategic partner, you’ll have direct access to emerging talent, extensive visibility among our students and world-class faculty insights and expertise—and the opportunity to play an integral role in the development of students and future leaders, share your expertise, and provide support for the future of the Leeds School.
200+ companies
engage with Leeds annually
90%+
annual placement rate
81% of students
complete 1+ internships
60% of internships
convert to full-time jobs
28% of students
start their career with corporate partners
Corporate Partner Spotlight
Gusto
Partner since: 2018
Gusto offers and integrated platform for automating and simplifying payroll, benefits and HR for small businesses. Gusto became a partner with the Leeds School in order to make a big impact in their recruitment strategy. By taking advantage of career fairs and networking nights, meet-and-greet events with students, employer office hours and on-site programming, they made nine new hires of talented Leeds students in one semester (and that number is growing).
