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Partnerships

College of Business TowerA. Our Corporate Partnerships
B. Our International Partnerships

C. Gary J Sbona Honors Program Partnerships

D. Salzburg Seminar Partnership

E. Study Abroad Partnerships


A. Our Corporate Partnerships

The College of Business and the Lucas Graduate School of Business are integral parts of Silicon Valley – contributing talent to the local industry while being enriched by the Valley’s energy and innovation. We are proud of the funding support we receive from our local companies, foundations and non-profit institutions.

Listed below are our partners, by funding level

Participating Companies

$150,000 and up

Advanced Micro Devices
Bank of the West
Bridge Bank
Hewlett-Packard Company
Lucas Trust Ventures
Microsoft Corporation
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Regent Pacific Management
Spansion
 

$40,000 to $149,999

Amdahl Corporation
Applied Materials
Arrow Electronics
Arthur Andersen
Bank of America
Barry Swenson Builder
Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corporation
Burr, Pilger & Mayer
California State Automobile Assoc.
Cisco Systems
Deloitte & Touche
Ernst & Young LLP
First America Automotive
Focus Bank
Grant Thornton
Heritage Bank
HNTB Corporation
IBM Corporation
KBM Workspace
Kohl's
KPMG Peat Marwick
LAM Research
Maxim Integrated Products
Metro A Trust Fund
Parsons Brinckerhoff Group
PG&E Corporation
Robinson's-May
San Francisco Foundation
San Jose Accounting Roundtable
Target Corporation
Tokyo Electron Limited
Walgreens
Wells Fargo & Company
Xynteo Ltd.
 

$10,000 to $39,999

3Com Corporation
Abbott, Stringham & Lynch
American Public Transportation Assoc.
Annex Ventures I
B.T. Mancini Co.
Bay Area Rapid Transit Dist.
BDO Seidman
Bechtel Corporation
Becker Professional Education
Bombardier Transportation
California Water Service Co.
Capsco Sales, Inc.
Carter Burgess
Ch2m Hill Companies, Ltd.
Chevron Corporation
Coates & Sowards
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Comerica Bank Wealth & Inst.
Compton Foundation
Cypress Semiconductor
DMJM + Harris
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Foundation for Global Community
Gillig Corporation
Granite Construction
Hatch Mott MacDonald
Integrated Device Tech
Intel Corporation
Joseph George Distributors
Kinkisharyo International
LTK Engineering Services
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Mohler, Nixon & Williams
National Heritage Foundation
New United Motor Manufacturing
Nike, Inc. & Affiliates
Nordstrom
Peninsula Bank of Commerce
Petrinovich Pugh & Company
Pico Design
QUALCOMM
Roger Philipp CPA Review
San Joaquin Regional Transit
San Jose State Business Alumni Association
San Mateo County Transit Dist.
Seagate
Sensiba San Filippo
Shapell Industries of Northern California
Shea Homes
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley Law Group
Synecta, Ltd
The Law Firm of Kallis and Associates
The Lemelson Foundation
TRW Incorporated
Union Bank of California
Union Pacific Foundation
United Way of Santa Clara County
University Electric Company
URS Corporation
Verizon Wireless
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b. Our International Partnerships

Our vision is to become a leading institution recognized for its excellence in global business education by providing global educational experiences for both our students and faculty. Thus, San Jose State University and the College of Business have developed academic partnerships with over 60 universities around the world.

Listed below are our academic partners, by country.

Argentina
University of Business and Social Science
Australia
RMIT University
Queensland University of Technology
Brazil
University of Itajuba
Brazil Business and Education Consortium Program
Canada
Universite Laval
China
City University of Hong Kong,
Tongji University
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Beijing Language and Culture University
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chongqing Technology and Business University
Hangzhou University of Commerce
Qingdao Univerisity
Renmin University
Shangdong College of Business
Costa Rica
Universidad Veritas
France
Toulouse Business School
Institute of Political Science
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille
MICEFA (Universities of Paris)
EFREI
Academie De Dijon
L’Universite De Bourg
Germany
Hochschule Dramstadt
Leuphana Univeristy
India
Indian Institute of Management
Alliance Business School
Punjab Agricultural University
Vasavi Academy of Education
Ireland
University College of Dublin
Japan
Kwansei Gakuin
Okayama University
Yokohama National University
Hosei University
Kyushu University
Meiji University
Miyazaki International College
Reitaku University
Momoyama University
Osaka Institute of Technology
Newport Asia Pacific University
Tokushima University
Korea
Incheon Educational Training Institute
Keimyung University
Daegu University
Peru
Universidad ESAN
Pakistan
Sit Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Portugal
University of Porto
Spain
University of Burgos
Switzerland
Qurich University of Applied Sciences
Taiwan
Yuan Ze University
National Chi Nan University
STUT
Tatung University
Chung Yuan Christian University
Soochow University
Tunghai University
Tajen University
National Chiao Tung University
National Taipei University
Thailand
Chulalongkorn University
Ukraine 
Crimean University for the Humanities
United Kingdom
Roehampton University
University of Hertfordshire
University of Portsmouth
Nottingham Business School
The Nottingham Trent University

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C. Gary J Sbona Honors PROGRAM Partnerships

The Gary J. Sbona Honors Program prepares our top students for the business world by providing them with an opportunity to get practical, hands-on experience as part of their college curriculum. The Program was designed as a win-win opportunity in that participating companies get our top students to do much-needed projects at no cost to the company. We have now successfully performed over 260 projects for over 80 different businesses in Silicon Valley, with multiple projects at companies like Accenture, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, National Semiconductor and Target.

The Program completes about 30 projects per year. Listed below are the organizations that have participated in the Program.

Abbott, Stringham & Lynch
Accenture
Adobe Systems
Agilent
Applied Materials
ArcSight
Bausch & Lomb/Edventure Partners
BayBio (BioMed Consortium)
BEA
Blue Coat
Bridge Bank
Bring Light FDN
Burr, Philger, Mayer
Cal Pine
C-A-R (Comm outreach org)
Center For Edu & Training (CET)/Credit Union
CET
CIA/Edventure Partners
Cisco Systems (Several)
Cisco/Telepresence
City of San Jose
City of San Jose, City Arborist
City of San Jose, Enterprise Systems Dept.
City of San Jose, Parks, Rec and Neighborhood Services
CoB COBAN
Contoural
Creative Labs
Creative Labs 
Crown International
Deloitte
Electroglas
Environmental Software Provider (ESP)
Ernst & Young
FBI/Edventure Partners
Fdn for Global Community
Frank Rimerman
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
Happy Hollow Park & Zoo
Heritage Bank
Hitachi GST 
Honda/Edventure Partners
HP
IBM
iFIT/Biomedical device startup
Intevac
Intuit
Kingdom of Morocco/Edventure Partners
KLA-Tencor
Knapp Water (start-up)
Kovio
Lam Research
Lisalani
Mattson
NASA
National Semiconductor
Pacific Coast Aeronauts
Pacific Crest
Perkin Elmer
Plug & Play Expo Center
Plugandplay
PLX
Power Beam/Startup market study
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Regent Pacific
Satellite Healthcare
Seagate
Seicoat
Seicoat/Andrade
SETI Institute
SETI Institute/Membership Marketing
SETI Institute/Radio Prog Marketing
SF 49ers'
Silicon Valley Bank
SJSU CoB & College of Engineering  (Zero emission vehicle)
SJSU University Advancement
Solartech
Subaru/Edventure Partners 
Sun Microsystems
Sustainable Bus. Inst.
Symantec
Synopsys
Tahiti Fete San Jose
Target
Tecan Systems
The Health Trust
The Tech
Verizon
Veterans2Work
Vivu
VNUS
VTA, Environmental Planning
Wallgreens
Yahoo!

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D. Salzburg Seminar Partnership

The College of Business sends at least 2 faculty/administrative members and at least 2 students to the Salzburg program each year. To find out more about the Salzburg Program please visit: http://salzburg.sjsu.edu/

E. Study Abroad partnershipS

In 2010 the College of Business sent 33 students to study abroad in Partner Business Schools in 11 different countries. To find out more about our study abroad program please visit http://www.sjsu.edu/cob/studyabroad/