Get Your Business Challenges Solved
What if a team of talented university students from leading international universities spent weeks developing strategic recommendations tailored to your business, at no cost?
Our Consulting Projects connect companies with highly motivated undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA cohorts who work on real business challenges as part of their academic programs. Guided by experienced faculty and our project management team, students deliver practical recommendations that companies can immediately evaluate and implement.
“We’ve really enjoyed working with […] students over the past couple of years! They’ve brought fresh ideas to our market research and made us look at potential new markets from a different perspective. It’s been great to work together on real business questions and give students a chance to see what it’s like to work in the fast-moving AI industry.”
Mihaela Krznar, Marketing & Sales Specialist at Velebit Artificial Intelligence
About International Study Programs
We are ISP, the global center of experiential learning. With 27+ years in the educational travel industry, we craft high impact study trips and online education programs for academic institutions. Since 1999, we’ve delivered 2700+ study trips across 150+ destinations for over 245 universities worldwide.
Get your business challenges solved
Partnering with ISP on a consulting project will give you access to our top-tier Business, MBA and Executive MBA cohorts to come up with come up with fresh, innovative solutions tailored to your company. With 27 years of experience as ‘the global center of experiential learning’, you can rely on our knowledge, facilitation, and expertise to bring cost-free, business-boosting consultancy to your company.
Who we partner with.
In short, we work with organizations of any size across all industries and sectors from multinationals and SMEs to startups, social enterprises and NGOs. It’s up to us to make sure that the students are perfectly matched to your needs - whether it’s one group or multiple, the students will compete to find the best solution for your challenge.
What does your company gain?
Fresh market insights
Gain an external perspective from students with diverse backgrounds and industry knowledge.
International perspective
Explore opportunities for growth, customer engagement, sustainability or innovation.
Actionable recommendations
Receive practical, research-backed recommendations tailored to your challenge.
Minimal time commitment
Typically just a briefing, progress check-in and final presentation.
Don’t just take our word for it…
"We got the great opportunity to meet very talented and innovative students who delivered an amazing presentation on circular economy and connecting it to our own sustainability strategy. We could not be happier with the engagement.”
Miranda von Seth Penchansky, Group Talent Attraction Manager at Husqvarna
“We already worked on a couple of projects together and both were very positive! As a startup, FarmUp really benefited from the interaction with the MBA students and with the quality of the end-of-project report. These are now tools we use for international expansion and we feel far more prepared.”
Jose Pericao, CEO of FarmUp
“International Study Programs reached out to us to connect us to an international business studies professor, whose students did a comprehensive study of our organization. We implemented many of their recommendations immediately!”
Doug Whitelaw, Director of Operations at The Stoplight Approach International Association
“It has been a pleasure […] to work with International Study Programs on several projects. The process has always been very well organised and runs smoothly. It is stimulating for us to work with both the younger students and MBA students, hearing their new ideas and input has been truly valuable. We hope that they have also found our relationship valuable to them and their studies.”
Anne Kokotos, Owner at Ktima Kokotou Winery
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Next steps
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• Firstly, make a connection with us by sending us an email at sohajova@studyprograms.com
• Our designated team member will reach out and discuss possible challenges with you before you submit a confidential project brief form.
• Next, we match you with the right student group. After the pairing, we’ll arrange and facilitate a meeting with the university professor who’ll be supervising the group.
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• We arrange and facilitate the first online session with the student group and university. The students will come prepped with their own research to ensure they have some prior knowledge of your business.
• This initial meeting usually lasts between 60-90 minutes, allotting enough time to introduce your business challenges and create an open forum between yourself and the students.
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• The group works on your business challenge for between 4-12 weeks (depending on your agreement) under the supervision of experienced professors and faculty advisors.
• We facilitate everything. Your designated ISP team member will help you and the university with all the necessary arrangements, meeting facilitations and communication.
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• This is when the solutions arrive! The students present their ideas and give you in-depth analysis and strategies that you can implement into your business.
• This final session is, of course, facilitated and organized by us.
• The results are delivered via presentations and/or written reports.
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• Now’s the time to take these solutions and use them! These are results delivered by high-level business students, so tangible and usable results are the outcome.
• Remember, this is a business consulting exercise that comes at no cost to you.
Has this sparked your interest?
All you have to do is contact our team and we’d be happy to arrange a short call or meeting to discuss the next steps.
Nikola Sohajova
Product Specialist
Consulting Projects