Let’s work together.
Our master’s program is the training ground for the most prominent thinkers and creatives in the industry. Each year, agencies and companies bring their real-world challenges to us, and our students enthusiastically answer the call to creatively and strategically solve them.
Brandcenter students are trained to understand the power of unique brand experiences. They know how to research a category, how to identify target consumers and influencers, how to craft effective strategies, and how to bring those strategies to life with brilliant concepts and executions.
Through partnership, you receive creative solutions, and our students gain even more real-world experience.
If you’re interested in partnering with us, we look forward to hearing from you.
How to Sponsor an Assignment
We have three different types of assignments, and we’ll work with you to decide which is best for your organization.
All assignments must:
- Be mutually beneficial for you and for our students—provide real value for your agency/company and our students
- Complement our curriculum and serve as a quality learning experience for our students
- Provide an opportunity for our students to develop portfolio pieces
Types of assignments
For all assignments, students are supervised by our faculty, each of whom have extensive, practical experience at top advertising and marketing firms. All projects culminate in live student presentations of the deliverables to you, their peers, and faculty.
All-concentration assignments
For broader brand challenges, interdisciplinary teams of students from all concentrations—Art Direction, Copywriting, Creative Brand Management, Experience Design, and Strategy—work together to develop multi-faceted solutions, including strategic recommendations and creative deliverables.
Independent study assignments
Fourth-semester students in the Creative Brand Management concentration work directly with a company on a semester-long capstone project. As a partner, you assign the student a real-world, current challenge your company is facing to demonstrate their understanding of the role of an account manager.
Concentration-focused assignments
For more focused challenges, partners can work with students in one or two concentrations. These projects tend to be more appropriate when a partner has a specific need—such as strategy, experience design, or brand management.
Ready to partner with the Brandcenter?
If you're interested in sponsoring a project, please contact Brandcenter Associate Director Ashley Sommardahl.
Have a project that doesn’t fit the criteria?
Post it as a freelance opportunity, and we'll share it with our students. Send us an email with the scope of work, timing, pay, and how students can contact you.
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