The Finance Practicum

Need some more experience on your resume? The MSF Practicum is your opportunity to work as a member of a 2-3 person team on a short-term finance consulting project at a sponsoring corporation for a two week period in January. The projects are structured so that a finished product is delivered to the sponsor at the end of the Practicum. Each student team is assigned a faculty mentor on campus as a resource and backup support.

The practicum is a win-win program. You gain valuable experience and have an opportunity to significantly impact a company. Corporate partners see the practicum project as an opportunity to use talented, external manpower to tackle a project that requires specialized insight or tools. They also use the practicum as a chance to see your work on the job as a potential future employee.

The Finance Practicum is administered by Illinois Business Consulting.

Previous Participants

• 3M Corporation
• Aon Corporation
• Archer Daniel Midland
• Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Co.
• Citigroup
• CIVC Partners
• Dresner Co.
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Flowserve
• G.E. Consumer Finance
• Gevity HR
• Grainger
• Gosvenor Capital Management
• Home Depot
• Houlihan Lokey
• John Deere & Company
• Liberty Mutual
• Lockeed Martin
• Merrill Lynch
• Metropolitan Life
• Pfizer
• Pinnacle Fund Management
• Preco Electronics Inc.
• Prudential Mortgage Capital Company
• Quantitative Analytics
• Robert Bosch Company
• Standard + Poors
• State Farm Bank
• State Farm Insurance
• Towers Perrin
• W.W. Grainger
• Walmart
• YRC Worldwide
• Ziegler