Centers and Institutes

Our innovative Centers and Institutes enhance classroom learning by providing professional-development opportunities for our students. CoB Centers and Institutes provide mentoring, guest speakers, executive education, and thought leadership across multiple fields of interest. These activities help get our students Career Ready and Connected.

• Centers and Institutes support professional-development opportunities with hands-on learning programs. These sessions bridge students' traditional academic experiences with learning from professionals who are in practice.
• Students also experience real-world interactions with connections to mentors, speakers, and other experiential opportunities.
• Thought leadership, research, and executive-education opportunities result from interaction of faculty and business professionals.

Fisher Institute for Professional Selling

At the Fisher Institute, you’ll learn how to properly diagnose a prospect's business challenges and professionally prescribe your product as the solution.

Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies

The Fitzgerald Institute fosters a climate of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the University with an emphasis on experiential learning.

Institute for Global Business

The Institute connects students to hands-on, practical experiences to prepare them for success in an increasingly global marketplace.

Center for IT and Analytics

The Center for IT & Analytics is a resource connecting IS students and faculty with industry executives. Center for IT and Analytics provides networking, mentoring, and internship and co-op opportunities.

Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing

What’s direct marketing? It’s marketing directly to customers, and just about every business uses it. Direct marketing is websites, mobile apps, social media, direct mail, and more.

Institute for Leadership Advancement

The Institute offers comprehensive academic and co-curricular leadership programs to students of all academic majors and interests

Suarez Applied Marketing Research Laboratories

The Suarez Labs include one focusing on eye tracking and brainwave & physiological analyses; another for testing the effectiveness of various types of advertising, and a third for developing comprehensive market intelligence reports.