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Gateway for Industry and Academic Collaboration

Your industry is like no other. Your goals, your challenges, and your people create a singular culture with its own needs and opportunities. When it comes to solving real-world problems and bringing out the best in your organization, you deserve a partner who understands what makes you unique.

Reliable Solutions

The Solutions Institute is the gateway for organizations to connect to Drexel University’s expertise and world-class resources to design custom interdisciplinary solutions tailored to your organization and its people.
Build Your Pipeline
Drexel brings substantive applied experience, an interdisciplinary approach, and the human skills that are essential for your organization's success in a rapidly changing world.
Develop Talent
With opportunities for real-world experience, interdisciplinary and project-based learning, and an inquiry-based model of education, we equip individuals with the skills that are critical to success in today's world.
Discover Solutions
The Drexel Solutions Institute connects corporate partners with Drexel University by creating interdisciplinary teams of Drexel faculty and students to solve today's industry challenges through innovative research partnerships.
Grow Your Partnership
The most useful innovations and discoveries arise from collaborative partnerships. A diversity of perspectives creates comprehensive solutions that neither academia nor industry can accomplish alone.
Through top tier talent acquisition, custom corporate and executive training and interdisciplinary research-based solutions, the Solutions Institute leverages Drexel's resources to solve real-world problems.

Case Studies

Learn more about Vertex & Drexel’s Partnership for an Experiential Course in Dynamic Team Consulting.

Learn more about SEI & Drexel Solutions Institute’s Consumer Insights Project.
Learn more about Drexel Solutions Institute's Research Partnerships in Drexel's EXEL Magazine.
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Sign up for the monthly Drexel Innovates e-newsletter to stay abreast of Drexel's research developments and learn about special partner opportunities with the Drexel Solutions Institute.

In the Media

One partner, so many opportunities
Collaboration between Drexel University and Longwood Gardens prompts new courses, exhibits and cutting-edge research
Student Zac Cohen works on a trial-run dish before the final presentation to Longwood Gardens. Drexel University Students and Longwood Gardens Tackle Food Sustainability and Innovation
Over the course of a term, students in the "Garden to Table Cooking" class learned how to cook and present dishes made from scratch.
New Gift From Jeff Westphal Will Support Innovation & Immersive Experiences
Today, we have the privilege of announcing a generous gift from Jeff Westphal in honor of his father, Ray Westphal ’59, HD ’02, which will help to advance critical areas of the Strategic Plan.

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