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Send students for three weeks. Get founders back.

A credit-bearing course your faculty leads and EIA teaches. 215 universities already send students, UC Berkeley every summer since 2013.

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Why universities come back

Longest-running official university summer-abroad startup programUC Berkeley × EIA, every summer since 2013
Largest entrepreneurship study-abroad program400+ students, 65+ nationalities, one hall, one cohort
215 universities in the allianceFrom Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon to Lisbon and Porto

How it works

Your faculty leads. EIA teaches.

Your faculty lead travels with the cohort, observes and grades. 50+ mentors teach the course, so it adds no teaching load.

Credit6 ECTSDated syllabus, rubrics and four assessable outcomes.
GradingYoursYour faculty grade your own students.
TeachingNo loadMentors teach. You join sessions as you choose.
TimingThree weeksIn July, back before the fall term.

World recordLongest-running official university summer-abroad startup program: UC Berkeley × EIA, every summer since 2013.

Out of 100 students, how many fail?

34 of 100 fail

Lecture course

Fail
Pass

Students in lecture courses were 1.5 times more likely to fail.

Freeman et al., PNAS 2014. Meta-analysis of 225 studies of university science courses (33.8% vs 21.8%).

Out of 100 students, how many fail?
Course	Fail (of 100)
Lecture course	34
Learning by doing	22

Peer-reviewed

What your students take home.

Researchers measured EIA students before and after the course. Pick a measure.

Read the research

Students with no startup experience who plan to found a company.

Before EIA: 0%
After EIA: 58%

Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019

Before and after EIA
Measure	Before EIA	After EIA	Source
Founding intent	0%	58%	Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019
Self-efficacy	0	+1.8	Brandt, 2023
Resilience	0	+1.6	Brandt, 2023
Passion	0	+1.3	Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, 2024

Innovation

Commercialisation Act

Every team has three weeks to reach 10,000 in revenue. The money isn't the point. Sales prove the world needs what you built.

10Krevenue target in three weeks

Impact

What your cohort creates.

Pick a cohort size. We apply the rates from EIA's 2024 survey of 25,000 alumni to your students.

Employability44% of alumni credit EIA with a career move.
Founders in your network40% of alumni start a company.
Research dataYour cohort can join EIA's five studies.

Your cohort, by the alumni numbers

Students you send20

8 of 20 students start a company.

jobs their companies create: ~26; jobs their companies create
raised by their companies: ~$1.8M; raised by their companies

Averages across all alumni: $2.2B raised and 32,000+ jobs from 25,000 alumni. A few big companies account for most of it, so a single cohort can land well below or above.

EIA Alumni Survey 2024

Your cohort, by the alumni numbers: 20 students you send
Start a company	8 of 20
Still running it	5 of 20
Career move	9 of 20
jobs their companies create	26
raised by their companies	$1.8M

ROI calculator

What a cohort returns to you.

Move the slider to your cohort size. Each extra student raises the return per dollar.

Students you would bring

$10,000 grant unlocked.

5-year return by cohort sizeTap to pick a size

Tuition per student

Current fee. Change it if you have a quote.

15.2x

5-year return

20 students

Includes the $10,000 grant

20 students at $2,159 cost $43,180 and return $657,700 over five years.

Cohort investment

5-year value

Tuition revenue lift: $539,750; over 5 years
Enrollment increase: +21%; over 5 years
Ranking lift: +12 positions; employability factor
Media & brand value: $107,950; over 5 years
AI Entrepreneurship Grant: $10,000 to your program; Paid to you as faculty lead.

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EIA replies within one business day.

How this is calculated

Every coefficient, for your finance office.

Investment is tuition times the number of students.
All figures are set at a 20-student cohort, then scaled by (ln n / ln 20) to the power 1.5 for dollar values and 1.2 for enrollment and ranking.
At 20 students, tuition revenue lift is 12.5 times the investment and media value is 2.5 times.
At 20 students, enrollment rises 21% and ranking 12 positions.
The $10,000 grant counts from 20 students.
The default $2,159 is the current fee. Get a written quote before budgeting.
Based on EIA alumni outcomes since 2012. Results vary.

Modeled projections, not a guarantee.

Next step

Bring a cohort next summer.

Tell us your cohort size and city. EIA replies within one business day with dates, credit and a written quote.

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