Northeastern Partnerships
You have a challenge.
Let’s find a solution.
From developing talent to accelerating innovation, we can help get you where you want to go.
How we work
Lockstep from day one
With our renowned experiential model, high-impact research, deep partnerships, and more than a century of experience working with employers across industries and sectors, we’re adept at aligning around strategic goals and codesigning solutions. Benefit from collaborations with our expert faculty and smart, ambitious students. Plug in to our worldwide network of proven and flexible operations, evaluation tools, and state-of-the-art facilities. And leverage a global support system across 13 campuses that takes you exponentially closer to achieving your goals.
Ways to Partner
- Student Engagement
- Sponsored Research
- Professional Learning
- Faculty Engagement
- Technology Transfer
- Colocation Facilities
- Shared Research Facilities
Explore the possibilities
You may be surprised to discover the many ways a university partnership can benefit you.
Industry
Build talent, accelerate innovation
Whether you want to expand or develop your workforce, accelerate—and de-risk—the innovation process, gain access to our research and startup ecosystem, or collaborate longer term on solving broad-based problems, you’ll find the resources and expertise to give your business a competitive edge.
Government
Tap expertise and resources
Work with our world-leading experts in AI, security, networks, brain health, and computational medicine. Leverage critical tools and technologies. Co-locate teams across our campuses in specialized, secure environments. Reap the benefits of partnering with a research enterprise designed to solve big, interconnected challenges.
Entrepreneurs
Connect with leading change agents
Join our worldwide entrepreneurship ecosystem of leading scholars, mentors, and investors and discover how to make your startup a reality.
Universities and colleges
Collaborations that benefit all
Discover what we can achieve together by combining complementary strengths—from building powerful consortia to tackle global challenges to creating innovative education programs that expand opportunities for students and faculty.
Community and Nonprofit
Neighborhoods made stronger together
Our global campus system is committed to lifting lives across various communities, from youth college readiness to health and wellness to job preparation.
Northeastern partnerships
propel progress
Get a glimpse of how we’re collaborating with companies and organizations across sectors.
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Wayfair
Reinventing the way people shop for their home requires fresh thinking and creative problem-solving. That’s why Wayfair turned to our co-ops.
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L.L.Bean
You don’t have over a century of business success without knowing how to evolve with the times. That’s why iconic outdoor retailer L.L.Bean partnered with the Roux Institute at Northeastern’s Portland campus to co-develop data-analytics courses tailored to its employees.
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Army Research Lab
Keeping warfighters safe and effective is serious business. So, ARL selected Northeastern to help develop homeland security and defense technologies that can go from lab to battlefield at accelerated speed.
You’re ready.
We can help.
Know where you want to go, but not sure how to get there? We make it simple to connect the dots and surface new possibilities.