IBM Academic Program for System z Enterprise Server Skills Now Deployed at Approximately 550 Schools Worldwide
IBM announced major milestones from its System z Academic Initiative Program to expose students around the world to the vast career opportunities currently available in enterprise systems computing.
Educators all over the world are leveraging the IBM Academic Initiative, System z, program to add enterprise systems courses, modules, and labs into their curricula. The program provides free resources to educators and students who are learning enterprise systems and IBM mainframes. Business leaders tell IBM and educators that there is a strong demand for students who study enterprise systems.
List of schools teaching enterprise systems
Note that all schools in the US have an educator's contact information for prospective employers to contact.
How educators get started with enterprise systems
Mainframe courses and modules available for educators
Educators that enroll in the IBM Academic Initiative have access to a wide variety of courses, textbooks, speaker notes, tests, and labs that are available for download.
Featuring professors and students
IBM makes visible the professors and students who are embracing enterprise systems so that the mainframe community can establish relationships at the schools, provide internships, and hiring opportunities. If you know a professor who teaches enterprise systems, please send a note to zSkills@us.ibm.com
Connecting Students with Job Opportunities
Professors: you can help increase your students' chances of finding jobs by providing them access to post resumes on the IBM Student Opportunity System database.
Here's how you can help: In order for students to qualify to enter a resume in the database, you will need to verify that a student has participated in a class that contains enterprise systems content.
To do that, visit the IBM Student Opportunity System database page, and follow the instructions you'll find there.
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