Preparing for your future
The Blueprint Model
Blueprint is our education-to-career model, a 12-course series on professional and leadership development and financial literacy. It’s the foundation of every business major, and the series embeds career advising, student-employer interaction and work-based learning into the student experience.
Your path to a meaningful career.
Students are introduced to an overview of business disciplines (e.g., accounting, marketing, management) and participate in career planning activities such as company visits and workshops with industry representatives. Last year 650 business professionals shared their knowledge and experiences with our students.
A focus on transferable skills.
All 12 courses have a strong focus on work-based learning that helps develop transferable skills. We're building skills such as adaptability, teamwork and communication — qualities that employers seek in any industry.
For example, students launch revenue-generating microenterprises in a first-year course. All third-year students participate in a case competition hosted by industry partners. Fourth-year students engage in company-sponsored academies that focus on practical skill development in labor-market driven areas.
More than work skills, these are life skills.
With a strong emphasis on financial literacy, students learn about financial goal setting, budgeting, credit management, loan repayment, taxes, savings/investing, major purchases, salary/benefit negotiation and more.
Award-winning
Our breakthrough curricular model earned national recognition and funding from Strada Education Network.