Boston College is a university ranked among the nation’s best—encompassing superior liberal arts programs and strong professional programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. With its world-class faculty, cutting-edge programs, and talented students, Boston College engages in pioneering research on issues that affect your business.
Establishing a relationship with Boston College enables your company to align with one of the nation’s leading research universities, while investing strategically in scholarship, education, and service programs that make our world a better place.
Sponsored Research
Boston College invites your company to join us in seeking knowledge and furthering critical research on topics that are relevant to your corporate objectives. Opportunities include:
Strategic Partnership Opportunities
Boston College research centers and institutes make significant contributions in a wide range of areas, including chemistry and other sciences, retirement and aging, religion and society, and improved practice in education, philanthropy, and corporate conduct. Your company can gain access to valuable research, increase its visibility, and enhance its level of corporate social responsibility by establishing a relationship with one of Boston College’s many respected centers of excellence, including:
Corporate Philanthropy
There are several ways your company can make a significant and lasting impact on the future of Boston College:
- Endow, in your company's name, an academic or athletic scholarship in your company’s name, that will live on in perpetuity at Boston College and benefit future generations of deserving students
- Establish, in your company's name, an endowed chair or professorship to live on permanently
- Partner with a research center or institute
- In a highly visible and permanent contribution, name of a research laboratory, academic center, or campus building
- Encourage employees to take advantage of corporate matching gift programs.
- Donate in-kind gifts of needed equipment, supplies, and software
Technology Transfer and Licensing
Boston College’s Office of Technology Transfer and Licensing helps create productive relationships between Boston College and commercial partners. Corporate research programs can increase their R&D effectiveness by drawing upon University resources and partnering with Boston College researchers who are moving science and technology forward for the betterment of society. BC also provides state-of-the-art facilities for scientific research, including a new nanofabrication laboratory, or “clean room."
Student Access
Boston College challenges students academically while connecting their talents and values with societal needs. When a Boston College student applies to your organization, you see a candidate with a strong academic base coupled with a solid ethical foundation. We invite your company to interact with our students through the following avenues:
- A recruiting program for full-time employees and interns, including a separate program for graduate management student recruiting
- On-campus corporate information sessions
- An annual career fair and internship fair
- Employer-sponsored panels and events
- A targeted recruiting program for AHANA (African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American) and international students
Contact the Boston College Career Center to learn more.
Athletics
Through advertising and sponsorship opportunities, your company can align itself with the Boston College Athletic Department and benefit from Boston College’s global brand reach. Opportunities include:
- Stadium and arena signage
- Advertising on print materials and in event publications
- Broadcast and online features
- Promotions, giveaways, and product sampling
- Athletics-related events and programs
Commitment to the Community
Boston College supports many key community initiatives and volunteer programs that leave lasting positive effects on the city of Boston and beyond. Your company is invited to align itself with any number of Boston College schools and community programs, including:
- Lynch School of Education--historically a tireless advocate for the Boston Public Schools and for Catholic elementary schools in urban settings. Through such innovative programs as BostonConnects and the Urban Catholic Teaching Corps, the Lynch School creates systemic, positive change in schools and communities
- Graduate School of Social Work--through its Field Education Program, graduate students engage hands-on with local social service agencies two or more days a week. Students provide more than 200,000 hours per year in service to the community
- Volunteer and Service Learning Center--partners with the community to offer safe, high quality volunteer experiences to students, staff, and faculty who are seeking opportunities to serve in the Greater Boston area
- Urban Ecology Institute--promotes the stewardship of healthy urban ecosystems by improving science and civic education for middle and high school youth and educating urban residents about their environment, connecting them to each other, and engaging them in the transformation of their neighborhoods
Highlights
- Financial support for developing and maintaining the Center for Retirement Research’s National Retirement Readiness Index comes exclusively from Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. The index is a measure of how prepared Americans are to maintain their standard of living in retirement. It calculates readiness based on a comprehensive set of projections including Social Security, employer-sponsored pensions, non-pension financial assets, health care costs, and housing.
- The New Balance Foundation, the charitable arm of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., has contributed more than $6.3 million to support Boston College’s BostonConnects program, a highly-successful, partnership-driven school reform effort that delivers a comprehensive array of supports—such as mentoring, counseling, and family services—to Boston Public School elementary students. As part of this program, the Foundation created the New Balance Foundation Health Education Curriculum, which now helps over 4500 students make smart choices about nutrition and overall health.
Contact Us
Boston College Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations
More Hall 220
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-9166
cfr@bc.edu