We partner with companies on semester-long data science project engagements that allow our members to work through real industry problems from start to finish.
Tell us a little about your company and what you'd like to work on.
Our partners
(01) — Ways to partner
Consulting projects are our primary form of engaging with a company, but there are a handful of other ways to partner with DSS, from recruiting to speaker events and hackathons.
Bring us any data problem, model idea, or research question, and we'll match it with a dedicated student team. Within one semester, we take it from idea to a shipped solution.
Meet Berkeley's strongest tech students before graduation through booths, infosessions, and referrals.
Put your engineers in front of an engaged technical audience with a talk, workshop, or fireside chat to broadcast your company to passionate young talent.
Sponsor a track, provide a real-world problem and dataset, judge projects, and recruit directly from a room of builders.
(02) — Process
Projects run on a semester cadence with a dedicated team and a defined scope to work on.
Each engagement gets a hand-picked team of students consisting of 2 project managers, 3-4 consultants, and a senior advisor. Students are picked for a project based on relevant experience in the project scope or the client’s industry. Weekly check-ins are also in place to keep clients in the loop without directly managing the project.
Common scopes include, but are not limited to:
Our members intern across industry throughout their time at Berkeley and go on to full-time roles at leading technology, finance, and consulting firms.
Partnering is the best way to not only target a focused project scope but also build an early talent pipeline.
Project Timeline
Click on a stage to view each portion of a project timeline.
Fall / Spring — both semesters follow the same five stages.
Fall Aug, Spring Jan
Fall Sep, Spring Feb
Fall Oct, Spring Mar
Fall Dec, Spring May
Fall Jan, Spring Jun
We finalize the SOW + additional documents and lock the project scope together. Everything regarding projects, from legal forms to the problem statement are defined here before project work starts.
