Students gain valuable experience through this semester-long study and work program in Chicago where they go behind the scenes of Chicago’s tech sector. Partner with the Grainger College of Engineering to identify, hire, and retain leading students to compete with coastal markets and build Chicago’s tech workforce.
By Urvashi JhaMarketing & Communications Coordinator, Technology Entrepreneur Center In its second year of partnership, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago collaborative entrepreneurship program is successfully helping students of both institutions bring their innovative ideas to the market. And, two University of Illinois teams are walking away from this year’s College […]
Quicket Solutions—a Chicago startup led by two U of I graduates—is doing its part to bring the next generation of Illini engineering talent to the city. Christiaan Burner and Akshay Singh founded Quicket Solutions in 2014, a year before graduating from the University of Illinois: Burner from the Gies College of Business and Singh from […]
Over half of the Spring 2020 City Scholars are returning to Chicago for an internship or job and over 90% of those who received an offer to stay in Chicago have accepted it.