UVA Summer Career Academies: May-July 2025

Open Closing on May 23, 2025
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
UVA Program Team
Program Team
Experience
3/20 project matches
Dates set by teams
Agreements required
Preferred companies
United States Required
Startup, Incubator, Large enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise
Any industries
Company verification required

Companies must complete verification in order to match with experience.

Experience scope

Categories
Digital marketing Data analysis Operations Project management Sales strategy
Skills
data analysis statistical analysis data visualization market analysis strategic planning operational risk management advertising strategy email marketing e-commerce
Learner goals and capabilities

Business, Marketing, & Data projects for US employers - Summer 2025


The University of Virginia is an iconic public institution of higher education, boasting nationally ranked schools and programs. Tap into top student talent for your digital marketing, data science, and business strategy projects! 


Each learner team will include a dedicated project manager. 


  • Submit a project here for our team to review. 
  • Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5 participants.
  • Projects should start by May 28 and must be completed within 4-7 weeks (by July 18)

Learners

Learners
Workforce Development
Beginner, Intermediate levels
100 learners
Project
20 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables will vary depending on the project scope. At the conclusion of the project you will have assets that can be used to further your business goals.


Given the short, remote nature of this program we require a project-based experience. Please provide a concrete scope for the participant’s work and limit their work to a specific project.


If you choose to use a template from our library, ensure that you have added as much context for your business needs as possible.

Project Examples

Requirements

Projects should be 25 hours in length per participant and are to be completed over 2-4 weeks. Each project should require the contributions of 5 participants (max. 125 hours in total).


Projects can include, but are not limited to 


Data Science 

  • Data manipulation, analysis, and visualization
  • Extracting insights datasets
  • Data cleaning, transforming, and modeling techniques
  • Data-driven decisions and drawing meaningful conclusions
  • Design a dashboard for visualizing key performance indicators


Digital Marketing & E-Commerce

  • Digital marketing and e-commerce strategies attracting and engaging customers through digital marketing channels incl. search, social media, and email marketing
  • Optimize a marketing plan focused on social media, SEO, paid search
  • Marketing analytics and sharing insights
  • Building e-commerce stores, analyzing performance, and growing customer loyalty
  • Marketing automation software for targeted digital marketing strategy including segmentation and automations


Business Strategy 

  • Strategy development for product launch
  • Comprehensive market analysis for business expansion
  • Customer feedback integration for strategic business decisions
  • Product lifecycle management and strategy enhancement
  • Cost optimization strategy
  • Product roadmapping
  • Pricing model development 
  • Customer journey mapping
  • Sales/ GTM strategy 
  • Finance planning 
  • Risk audits and /or compliance 

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
     *
  • Q2 - Checkbox
     *
  • Q4 - Checkbox
     *
  • Q5 - Checkbox
     *
  • Q6 - Text short
    Please describe the final deliverables that you expect from participants working on this project.  *