Client Opportunities
Offering opportunities to organizations from all industries that seek impact and access to high-caliber students
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Client-Based Courses
Select UMSI courses are associated with client-based opportunities. In these courses, students deploy their developing knowledge and skills to address real information challenges in a variety of areas.
Utilize user research, design, development, or evaluation to create or improve digital products and services that provide meaningful and relevant experiences
Submit a professional-level project related to library collections, archives, assessment, or community outreach
Improve or repair an information-related process related to a product, service, or information flow
Understand and interpret data after it undergoes manipulation and analysis
Manage digital data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to science, scholarship, and education
Work with students to answer questions affecting cities, cultural institutions, non-profits, or libraries
Curious about how our programs work? Read the answers to some of our most frequently asked questions
Programs
UMSI also has several opportunities for organizations to collaborate with students on information challenges outside of our client-based courses.
Connect public sector organizations with the knowledge and abilities of information students through immersive, service-oriented projects over Fall and Spring Break
Design Clinic students work in interdisciplinary teams to collaborate and innovate on fast-paced, self-driven, semester-long projects for real-world clients. Students receive mentorship from professional experts in design, user research, and entrepreneurship.
Partners Michigan communities with rising information professionals to create information tools for 21st century students
2021 Winter Student Project Exposition
View projects from UMSI's most recent exposition as examples of student work in client-based courses and programs.
About UMSI
The University of Michigan School of Information was chartered in 1996 as a new school within the University with the mission to conduct research in, and to teach about, topics at the intersection of people, information, and technology; its roots trace back to 1926 as a library science department. Our award-winning faculty have training in computer science, library science, business, psychology, economics, education, history, and other fields, and they investigate topics ranging from digitization of archival documents to relationships on social media, from data analysis using machine intelligence to the economics of information. The school comprises about 50 faculty, 50 staff, 60 PhD students, 400 professional master’s degree students and 150 bachelor’s degree students.