# Capstone projects

**Source**: https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-business-school/engage-with-us/capstone-projects
**Parent**: https://www.mq.edu.au/study/admissions-and-entry/apply/international/international-academic-requirements

Submit a problem to undergraduates and postgraduates

Submit a problem or project to MBA capstone students

## Creating solutions to complex challenges

The capstone unit allows Macquarie Business School (MQBS) students to apply their skills and knowledge to a real-world project.

Capstone is a project-based unit in which final year undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students:

- reflect on the knowledge they learned in the course
- work in groups and individually on a real-world project.

### Become a capstone client

As a capstone client, your organisation can benefit from fresh insights and innovative strategies as students collaborate on projects that address your specific business challenges.

Once our partner and problem/project are identified, our students:

- work with the partner or client to help them solve the real-world problem
- go through the process of problem identification and problem solving
- offer recommendations or solutions to the client’s problem using relevant theoretical frameworks in business strategy.

To become a capstone client, please provide a problem you would like our students to work on. The problem should:

- be at the corporate/strategic level
- allow students to integrate all knowledge their have learned throughout their studies.

The client representative/s will:

- come to a class and introduce the problem to our students at the beginning of the term.
- return to the class in the last week of the session and listen to the final presentations by our students and provide some oral feedback/comments.

Specific dates will be shared once the capstone project has been approved.

In addition to the opportunities to interact with our students, our capstone students will provide you with:

- presentations with business analysis and any recommendations/solutions
- a written business plan and report detailing the proposed recommendation and business plan.