Industry-ready, the way industry actually works now.
A degree certifies what a student knows. Employers hire on something else — judgement, the ability to work inside a real team, and the communication to make others act. We build that, with practitioners doing the work today.
Why this, and why now.
Situation — the market pays for what a degree does not certify.
Employment has shifted decisively towards work that is social rather than solitary. Jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the US labour force between 1980 and 2012, while maths-intensive but less social roles shrank by 3.3 points. The strongest growth was in jobs demanding both.
Complication — AI has moved the entry-level floor.
The first large-scale workplace study of generative AI found productivity up 14% on average, with gains concentrated among the least experienced — up to 35% for the lowest-skilled quintile. The tasks a fresher was once hired to learn on are the tasks AI now does best.
Question — so what is left for a business graduate to be hired for?
Judgement about what matters, the ability to work inside a real team, the communication to make others act — and then the ability to prove all three in an interview. None of it appears on a transcript.
Answer — twelve weeks of supervised real work, alongside the semester.
Not a lecture series and not a mentoring subscription. A structured internship that ramps students up, puts them on live projects with practitioner mentors, prepares them for interviews, and assesses what they produce.
What a graduate leaves with
Work to show
A portfolio of real projects, not coursework.
Professional habits
1:1s, reviews, status updates, a record of their own work.
AI fluency
Agentic tools used with judgement, not as a crutch.
A way in
Mentors from industry and a route to internships.
What we are proposing, precisely.
What this is
- A structured 12-week internship with assessed output
- Live projects supervised by practitioner mentors
- Ramp-up in AI, communication and enterprise fluency first
- An interview-readiness block before close
- A certificate, built to be mapped to academic credit
What this is not
- ×A lecture series or a soft-skills workshop
- ×A one-to-one mentoring subscription per student
- ×A placement guarantee or a recruitment service
- ×A replacement for anything in your curriculum
- ×A programme your faculty has to deliver
Four pillars
Every pillar is mentor-led, exercise-driven, and ends in something a student can put in front of a recruiter.
Communication Excellence
MECE structuring, the Pyramid Principle, BLUF, storytelling and storytelling with data — taught by a dedicated communications coach. Plus the communication a career runs on: a useful 1:1, a review you walk into prepared, a running record of your work.
Enterprise exposure
Most graduates meet a real company on day one of a job. Ours meet it earlier: how teams are structured and where a new joiner sits, how decisions and escalations travel, how meetings are run and followed up, how work is tracked and reported.
InternAge AI Labs
Agentic tools used on real management work, not toy prompts. The harder half is judgement — what to verify, what to reject, where the model is confidently wrong. It also introduces the forward deployed manager, one of the strongest emerging destinations for management graduates.
Real projects
Live briefs run alongside our own practice: discovery, prototype, build, ship. Pods of eight to ten students, each with a practitioner mentor, on a brief scoped so the pod can genuinely deliver.
Twelve weeks, three phases
Roughly ten hours of student engagement a week, with a live touchpoint every working day.
Psychometric baseline and a cold challenge, then AI literacy, communication excellence with a dedicated coach, and enterprise fluency.
Pods of eight to ten on real briefs with a practitioner mentor. Daily standups, weekly review, work visible on a shared board.
Demos, interview preparation, personal brand, a one-to-one for every student, evaluations and certificates.
Also available as a compressed 8-week track
90 hours across eight weeks. The ramp-up compresses; the capstone project, weekly mentor review, demo day, the one-to-one and the certificate are all protected.
Turning work into offers
Interview preparation belongs at the end, not the beginning. By this point a student has real work to talk about — so the module is about converting it, not rehearsing generalities.
Structuring answers
Answer first, then the reasons, then the evidence.
Your project as a story
Twelve weeks of pod work, told in two minutes.
Case & guesstimate rounds
Run by mentors who have sat on the other side of the table.
The personal pitch
Sixty seconds, and the three questions every panel asks.
Personal brand
A LinkedIn presence that reflects the work actually done.
Mock interviews
With practitioner mentors, and written feedback the student keeps.
Rigorous enough to carry credit
UGC guidance for undergraduate internships provides for 60 to 120 hours carrying 2 to 4 credits, with one credit equal to 30 hours of engagement across a semester. The full track is deliberately built to 120 hours — the top of that band. The compressed track runs to 90 hours.
Credit is awarded by the University, not by us, and must fit your scheme of examination. The University retains academic ownership and assessment authority; InternAge delivers the internship component.
Where the 120 hours go
- 48 hours — live sessions with coach and mentors
- 42 hours — supervised project work, logged and reviewed
- 30 hours — independent study and preparation
Engagement hours include live sessions, supervised project work and independent study.
Who runs this
One named person is accountable for the design, the delivery and the mentor bench — not a platform and not a rotating panel.
- Two decades in strategy and technology consulting — EY, Deloitte, Kearney and Capgemini.
- Began ramping B-school graduates into consulting cohorts at Deloitte: the same work this programme does, inside a firm.
- Guest faculty in management consulting for MBA students at IIFT Delhi and IIFT Kolkata, 2021.
- Chief of Staff at Contentstack from Series A through Series C, leading recruiting and employer branding.
- Selects and leads the mentor bench, and is personally present through every cohort.
The mentor bench is made up of practitioners currently working in consulting, product, finance and people functions, who deliver the pod work themselves rather than appearing as guest speakers.
What it costs
Volume terms are available for larger intakes and for multi-cohort commitments across an academic year.
Three ways to fund it
Direct enrolment
Students enrol with us and pay the programme fee directly. Nothing passes through University accounts, and no budget approval is needed.
Via the University
We sign an MoU, the programme is listed for your students, and the University collects the fee and remits to us.
University-funded
Paid from institutional budget against an invoice per cohort, or folded into the semester fee.
What universities usually ask
BBA, MBA, B.Com and other management cohorts — final-year students preparing for placement, and pre-final-year students who need an internship with substance behind it.
No. We supply the mentors, the communications coach, the project briefs and the assessment. Your faculty are welcome to observe throughout, and we ask for one faculty coordinator as a point of contact.
That decision rests with your academic authorities. The programme is built to 120 hours of assessed engagement precisely so that the evidence — learning outcomes, hours, assessment scheme, individual evaluations — is defensible to a Board of Studies. Credit is awarded by the University, never by us.
Delivered online, with a live touchpoint every working day and real work happening in between. That mirrors how distributed teams actually operate, and it is how students will be expected to work.
One cohort runs up to 100 students, split into pods of eight to ten. Larger intakes run as parallel cohorts, with mentors added rather than contact time diluted.
No, and we would be wary of anyone who does. We provide placement assistance through our industry network on completion, and — more usefully — students finish with shipped work and the ability to talk about it in an interview.
Let us walk you through it
Half an hour is usually enough to size a cohort, choose a track and settle how the hours would map to your own scheme. We will follow with a written proposal for your programme.