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SI-MBA Practicum Project
Timing:
- Submissions
- Oct: Practicum project ideas are submitted to UVM
- Second week of November: Final project proposals are submitted to UVM
- Pre-Work
- December: Student teams are paired with host organizations
- January: Kick-off meeting between student team and hosts
- Feb-May: Students and hosts refine scope and do background research
- Full-Time Consulting Project
- Mid-May – end of July: Student teams work on projects full-time
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Note that submission of a proposal does not mean you are guaranteed a student team. A number of proposals are developed so that students have a choice in which projects they are ultimately assigned to. However, if a project doesn’t move forward in one year it may be a project in the future.