Unlock Potential: Partner with Our Students on Consultancy Projects
Collaborate with our talented students to drive innovation in strategic business ideas, marketing initiatives, and technology or entrepreneurial development. Whether you are working on group projects with our MSc students, an individual MBA project, or hiring an MBA intern, our students will apply their expertise to develop targeted and impactful strategy recommendations for your business challenges.
This can also be an effective way to build your profile on campus and assess potential employees first-hand. Students will have access to several faculty advisors.
By partnering with us, you'll gain fresh perspectives and practical solutions to achieve real business outcomes and the chance to connect with future talent.
You can find more details on the types of projects and links to our project brochures below:
The Consulting Project course is designed to give our MSc students an opportunity to work on a small real-life consulting project in groups of 5 to 7 students.
Projects are welcomed that would be suitable for students on the following programmes:
- MSc Business Analytics,
- MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance.
- MSc Economics & Strategy for Business
- MSc Global Health Management
- MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management
- MSc International Management
- MSc Management
- MSc Strategic Marketing
Students present their recommendations and also write a 3000-word report for the client organisation.
Please submit project proposals for Summer 2025 Projects
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 9 April 2025.
This is a competitive process and we cannot guarantee all projects submitted will be allocated to a student group. Project bidding and allocation take place by the end of May. Then students will undertake the bulk of their project work in July.
Our MSc student teams thrive when challenged to solve complex problems or explore new market opportunities. In previous years, students have worked on projects ranging from business and marketing strategies to analytical challenges that make use of existing internal datasets. Research in support of innovation, the assessment of the impact of new technologies, and entrepreneurial venture development have also been common themes.
If you have any questions, please contact: Employer Relations Team
Perspectives on Practice (POP) is an individual, self-directed part of the Imperial MBA programme that lets our students undertake either an internship or an individual consulting project.
Internship or consulting project?
If your preference is for the extra resource which a student working full time on a range of tasks brings, you could consider hiring a paid MBA intern. The careers service will help advertise your opportunity and find a suitable candidate, or you can come to an arrangement directly with an individual student. Alternatively, our students are available for independent consulting projects which allow them to apply the business knowledge they have gained on the MBA, in an applied context. The majority of the work is conducted remotely with limited supervision and for which we expect you to cover reasonable expenses.These projects are more relevant where you have a specific idea or challenge which demands a fresh perspective and practical recommendations grounded in the latest business thinking. All projects are supported by unrivalled access to Imperial College’s research infrastructure and each student will be assigned an academic supervisor. Project objectives, timescales and budgets will be precisely defined from the outset.
Please submit project proposals to us between December and May. Students will undertake the bulk of the work in June-August (though they may be able to start earlier, or finish later, on a case-by-case basis).
For more detailed information, an informal discussion, or to request a Full-Time Final Project or Internship brochure, please contact:
Employer Relations Team
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7594 1510
Email: IBemployers@imperial.ac.uk